Raspberry Pi as an inexpensive embedded LCDproc server

Hi, All,

Like much of the planet, I'm waiting on delivery of a Raspberry Pi to
start a number of experiments.  In the meantime, Adafruit has posted a
bunch of R-Pi tutorials today including this one:

http://learn.adafruit.com/drive-a-16x2-lcd-directly-with-a-raspberry-pi/

It's six GPIO wires from the R-Pi to an HD44780 LCD, and the rest is
all software.  There's plenty of space and horsepower to run LCDd on
the R-Pi.  It's probably not too much of a stretch to whip up (and
share) design files to mount a 4x20 (or whatever is desired) in a
laser-cut acrylic enclosure with the R-Pi.  At $35 for the
network-enabled computer plus, say, another $10 or $15 for the
enclosure, it seems reasonable to bring the entire project in (with
PSU and LCD) for $80 or less.

If nobody beats me to it, I will be happy to try to get LCDd to
compile on the Raspberry Pi once mine arrives.  There would need to be
some driver mods to use R-Pi GPIO rather than a PC parallel port, but
I can't imagine that would take any great effort especially building
from the Adafruit tutorial.

Cheers,

-ethan