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Digital caliper mounted on lathe
S. Heslop:
I believe those 4 pins in the lower left are a data output. A microcontroller could feed it to any display you choose.
A quick search dug this up. There's probably better stuff out there but it's all beyond me.
http://www.robotroom.com/Caliper-Digital-Data-Port.html
https://www.instructables.com/id/Reading-Digital-Callipers-with-an-Arduino-USB/
PekkaNF:
Was more into 10-15 cm of flat cable from PCB to LCD solution than arduino/usb/PC/python solution.
There are some remote displays, they are fine, but the read-head is awfully clunky.
Pekka
S. Heslop:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/0-5mm-To-1-2mm-Pin-Pitch-Adapter-PCB-FPC-Board-2-0-3-5inch-TFT-LCD-SMD-To-DIP/282408073831?hash=item41c0d53a67:g:ZdIAAOxyaTxTVq37
There's boards like this all about. Kinda hard to find them since there's alot of different names. I just see them in videos occasionally when people are testing surface mount stuff.
But I imagine you could find one with the right pitch to match whats on that board, then solder a ribbon cable (or a series of regular cables tapering into a bit of sleeve or heat shrink tube) and find a way to fix the LCD onto that with the zebra strip.
WeldingRod:
Here's some pictures from my build! I used a remote display model for mine, and did some surgery on the board too.
PekkaNF:
Thank you.
How thin it is?
Mine standard caliper looked very different inside.
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