Arduino + Ethernet Shield + Display

Have recently acquired a display and Ethernet Shield.

set out to combine the two.

The goal was to have a display that could be updated from an online form.

It is really simplistic- honestly, this is not what the Arduino is meant to be doing.

Should really host this on a Pi and have that push the text to the Arduino (Either by Ethernet, or simply USB serial)

This was done using GET request on TCP, which makes it pretty messy. It can’t handle punctuation (Spaces are replaced with the plus symbol and punctuation is replaced by %values) and is limited to 32 characters. had problems with Chrome and Safari requesting the favicon of the page, so used a startsWith statement to filter out anything except a, “HTTP/1.1 200 OK” request.

So now people can send me random 32 character text messages. And someone thought Twitter was lacking in depth!

Source : http://pastebin.com/XMW0fXK3.