Arduino Tutorial – connecting a parallel LCD

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We do not include a LCD with the Adafruit Arduino starter pack (yet) but it’s a common add-on and a popular request for a tutorial, so here we go! An Arduino LCD tutorial. The LCDs we sell at Adafruit have a low power LED backlight, run on +5v and require only 6 data pins to talk to. You can use any data pins you want! This tutorial will cover character LCDs…


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1 Comment

  1. This is an excellent tutorial, and the idea of soldering the LCD onto a protoshield… pure genius. I’ll be ordering a couple more protoshield PCBs in a bit, and I’ll definitely dedicate one for this!

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