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    This Arduino LCD tutorial teaches how to connect an LCD display to an Arduino board. It discusses the LCD pinout and components needed. The tutorial provides a circuit schematic and sample Arduino code to display text and custom characters on the LCD. The code uses the LiquidCrystal library to initialize the LCD and print to it. Functions like setCursor(), print(), clear(), and createChar() are used to control the LCD display.

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    This Arduino LCD tutorial teaches how to connect an LCD display to an Arduino board. It discusses the LCD pinout and components needed. The tutorial provides a circuit schematic and sample Arduino code to display text and custom characters on the LCD. The code uses the LiquidCrystal library to initialize the LCD and print to it. Functions like setCursor(), print(), clear(), and createChar() are used to control the LCD display.

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    This Arduino LCD tutorial teaches how to connect an LCD display to an Arduino board. It discusses the LCD pinout and components needed. The tutorial provides a circuit schematic and sample Arduino code to display text and custom characters on the LCD. The code uses the LiquidCrystal library to initialize the LCD and print to it. Functions like setCursor(), print(), clear(), and createChar() are used to control the LCD display.

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    This Arduino LCD tutorial teaches how to connect an LCD display to an Arduino board. It discusses the LCD pinout and components needed. The tutorial provides a circuit schematic and sample Arduino code to display text and custom characters on the LCD. The code uses the LiquidCrystal library to initialize the LCD and print to it. Functions like setCursor(), print(), clear(), and createChar() are used to control the LCD display.

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    Arduino LCD Tutorial

    Dejan
    Arduino Tutorials
    21

    In this Arduino LCD Tutorial we will learn how to connect an LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) to
    the Arduino board. LCDs like these are very popular and broadly used in electronics projects as
    they are good for displaying information like sensors data from your project, and also they are
    very cheap.

    You can watch the following video or read the written tutorial below.

    The LCD Pinout

    It has 16 pins and the first one from left to right is the Ground pin. The second pin is the VCC
    which we connect the 5 volts pin on the Arduino Board. Next is the Vo pin on which we can
    attach a potentiometer for controlling the contrast of the display.

    Next, The RS pin or register select pin is used for selecting whether we will send commands or
    data to the LCD. For example if the RS pin is set on low state or zero volts, then we are sending
    commands to the LCD like: set the cursor to a specific location, clear the display, turn off the
    display and so on. And when RS pin is set on High state or 5 volts we are sending data or
    characters to the LCD.
    Next comes the R / W pin which selects the mode whether we will read or write to the LCD.
    Here the write mode is obvious and it is used for writing or sending commands and data to the
    LCD. The read mode is used by the LCD itself when executing the program which we don’t have
    a need to discuss about it in this tutorial.

    Next is the E pin which enables the writing to the registers, or the next 8 data pins from D0 to
    D7. So through this pins we are sending the 8 bits data when we are writing to the registers or for
    example if we want to see the latter uppercase A on the display we will send 0100 0001 to the
    registers according to the ASCII table.

    And the last two pins A and K, or anode and cathode are for the LED back light.

    After all we don’t have to worry much about how the LCD works, as the Liquid Crystal Library
    takes care for almost everything. From the Arduino’s official website you can find and see the
    functions of the library which enable easy use of the LCD. We can use the Library in 4 or 8 bit
    mode. In this tutorial we will use it in 4 bit mode, or we will just use 4 of the 8 data pins.

    Components needed for this Arduino LCD Tutorial


    You can get these components from any of the sites below:

     16×2 Character LCD…………………….. Amazon / Banggood


     Potentiometer ……………………………. Amazon / Banggood
     Arduino Board …………………………… Amazon / Banggood
     Breadboard and Jump Wires ……… Amazon / Banggood

    *Please note: These are affiliate links. I may make a commission if you buy the components
    through these links. I would appreciate your support in this way!

    Circuit Schematic

    We will use just 6 digital input pins from the Arduino Board. The LCD’s registers from D4 to
    D7 will be connected to Arduino’s digital pins from 4 to 7. The Enable pin will be connected to
    pin number 2 and the RS pin will be connected to pin number 1. The R/W pin will be connected
    to Ground and the Vo pin will be connected to the potentiometer.

    Source Codes
    First thing we need to do is it insert the Liquid Crystal Library. We can do that like this: Sketch >
    Include Library > Liquid Crystal. Then we have to create an LC object. The parameters of this
    object should be the numbers of the Digital Input pins of the Arduino Board respectively to the
    LCD’s pins as follow: (RS, Enable, D4, D5, D6, D7). In the setup we have to initialize the
    interface to the LCD and specify the dimensions of the display using the begin() function.

    In the loop we write our main program. Using the print() function we print on the LCD. The
    setCursor() function is used for setting the location at which subsequent text written to the LCD
    will be displayed. The blink() function is used for displaying a blinking cursor and the noBlink()
    function for turning off. The cursor() function is used for displaying underscore cursor and the
    noCursor() function for turning off. Using the clear() function we can clear the LCD screen.

    Here’s the source code of the first example from the video:

    1. /*
    2. * Arduino LCD Tutorial
    3. *
    4. * Crated by Dejan Nedelkovski,
    5. * www.HowToMechatronics.com
    6. *
    7. */
    8.
    9. #include <LiquidCrystal.h> // includes the LiquidCrystal Library
    10. LiquidCrystal lcd(1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7); // Creates an LC object. Parameters: (rs, enable, d4, d5,
    d6, d7)
    11.
    12. void setup() {
    13. lcd.begin(16,2); // Initializes the interface to the LCD screen, and specifies the
    dimensions (width and height) of the display }
    14. }
    15.
    16. void loop() {
    17. lcd.print("Arduino"); // Prints "Arduino" on the LCD
    18. delay(3000); // 3 seconds delay
    19. lcd.setCursor(2,1); // Sets the location at which subsequent text written to the LCD will
    be displayed
    20. lcd.print("LCD Tutorial");
    21. delay(3000);
    22. lcd.clear(); // Clears the display
    23. lcd.blink(); //Displays the blinking LCD cursor
    24. delay(4000);
    25. lcd.setCursor(7,1);
    26. delay(3000);
    27. lcd.noBlink(); // Turns off the blinking LCD cursor
    28. lcd.cursor(); // Displays an underscore (line) at the position to which the next character
    will be written
    29. delay(4000);
    30. lcd.noCursor(); // Hides the LCD cursor
    31. lcd.clear(); // Clears the LCD screen
    32. }

    It is also possible to write a custom characters to the LCD. It supports up to 8 characters of 5×8
    pixels. We can specify the appearance of each character by an array of 8 bytes. In the
    source code below we can notice how we can specify the appearance of the character by
    changing the 0 into 1 which represents the 5×8 pixels. In the setup we have to create the custom
    character using the createChar() function. The first parameter in this function is a number
    between 0 and 7, or we have to reserve one of the 8 supported custom characters. The second
    parameter is the name of the array of bytes. We write the custom character to the display using
    the write() function and as a parameter we use the number of the character.

    Here’s the source code of the second example for custom characters:

    1. #include <LiquidCrystal.h>
    2.
    3. byte slash[8]= { // Array of bytes
    4. B00001, // B stands for binary formatter and the 5 numbers are the pixels
    5. B00010,
    6. B00100,
    7. B01000,
    8. B10000,
    9. B00000,
    10. B00000,
    11. B00000,
    12. };
    13. LiquidCrystal lcd(1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7); // Creates an LC object. Parameters: (rs, enable, d4, d5,
    d6, d7)
    14.
    15. void setup() {
    16. lcd.begin(16,2); // Initializes the interface to the LCD screen, and specifies the
    dimensions (width and height) of the display
    17. lcd.createChar(7, slash); // Create a custom character for use on the LCD. Up to eight
    characters of 5x8 pixels are supported
    18. }
    19.
    20. void loop() {
    21. for(int i=0;i<=15;i++) {
    22. lcd.setCursor(i,0); // Sets the location at which subsequent text written to the LCD will be
    displayed
    23. lcd.write(7); // Writes a character to the LCD
    24. delay(1000); // 1 second delay
    25. lcd.clear(); // Write a character to the LCD
    26. }
    27. }

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