Hackaday

Animated Progress Bar Shows LCD New Tricks

A small LCD screen can be extremely helpful with small microcontroller projects. Not everything needs to communicate to a fancy server using an ESP8266. However, if the simplicity of the character ...
EDN

Alphanumeric LCD with Shift Register on Arduino – part 1

One of the limitations of the small 8 bit microcontrollers like the Atmel ATMega family adopted by the Arduino board, is the reduced number of I/O ports. Among the main advantages of these ...
Hackaday

Waterfall Signal Visualizer From Arduino And Cellphone LCD

[Leigh] is a HAM operator (you may know him as wa5znu). He is familiar with a signal visualization tool called a waterfall which plots signal strength and frequency over time. He wanted to build his ...
Electronics Weekly

BridgeTek puts colour touch screen on Arduino

Sunflower Shield adds a touch-enabled 3.5in QVGA TFT LCD to Arduino projects, and demonstrates Bridgetek’s FT813 video controller – which uses the firm’s innovative ‘EVE’ video controller which does ...
EDN

Alphanumeric LCD with Shift Register on Arduino – part 2

As promised in the first part of this article, now it is time to see in detail how we can use the Alphanumeric LCD Display in our Arduino sketches. The idea beside this project is to give a simple ...