"Darren Harris" wrote in message
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| It's not terribly complicated, but either way you'll pretty much need to
use
| a microcontroller. Check out www.maximic.com for LCD display driver
chips,
| and look at www.atmel.com or www.microchip.com for microcontroller info.
You
| could save some hardware time by using a ready-made LCD display, 16
| character x 2 line displays are relatively common, cheap, and not overly
| complex to drive. To save some time coding you can skip the assembly
| language and look into one of the compilers out there, RVK Basic, Bascom
| Basic, PICBasic, C, etc. Another advantage of this approach is that if
you
| don't like the way it works or think of a new feature you want, you
simply
| tweak the code until it works the way you want it to.
|
| Unfortunately, since I know nothing about microcontrollers, driver
| chips, or programming, can anyone advise me on how I can find someone
| who could do this?

If you look on the Microchip site you will find all the app notes you will
need. Look at PIC Microcontrollers. http://www.microchip.com/

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