The PCA2117 is a low-power Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) controller and driver. It is specifically designed to drive LCD dot-matrix displays of 2‑lines by 20 characters or 1‑line by 40 characters with ...

A new LCD has been designed with 160 large, easy-to-read dot-matrix characters. The LCM-H04004DSR/D2T has four lines of 40 characters, each measuring 5.16 mm x 10.52 mm high. Applications include ...

While the SSD1306 OLED has somewhat become the go-to display for up-to-date projects, the good old character displays with their Hitachi HD44780 controller don’t seem to be disappearing just yet ...

This project illustrates how the HD44780 LCD displays are driven by DIP switches or an ATmega8 microcontroller. This project illustrates how the HD44780 LCD displays are driven by DIP switches or an ...

Most LCD character displays connect to the outside world via a controller IC, such as the HD44780 (Hitachi) or equivalent. However, that interface has serious drawbacks. It uses a large number of the ...

Cheap character LCD displays are more versatile than we give them credit for. Most of the cheapies have a 5×8 character display, which looks blocky but legible when you have an appropriate font. Where ...