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Arduino Development Cookbook

By : Cornel M Amariei
Book Image

Arduino Development Cookbook

By: Cornel M Amariei

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Arduino Development Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

LCD character displays


There is nothing better than writing any information from the Arduino to a small LCD character display. They are incredibly handy and just look plain cool. Even better, Arduino has a built-in library to do this. Let's explore how we can implement it.

Getting ready

We will need the following ingredients for this recipe:

  • An Arduino board connected to a computer via USB

  • An LCD character display of any dimension—16 x 2 is the standard size

  • A 10K-ohm potentiometer

  • Jumper wires

How to do it…

First, we need to connect the monitor to the Arduino. This generally requires a minimum of 6 digital pins as shown in the following diagram:

This is one possible breadboard implementation:

Follow these steps to connect an LCD to the Arduino:

  1. Connect GND to the VSS and R/W pins.

  2. Connect 5V to the Vcc/Vdd input.

  3. Connect 6 digital pins to E (enable), RS, and DB4-DB7. This is the 4-bit way of connecting HD44780-based displays, such as the common LCD character displays.

  4. Lastly, connect a 10K-potentiometer...