Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) Course

Interested in expanding your projects with LCDs (Liquid Crystal Displays)? This video course walks through setting up these devices/software and programming them with Arduino code libraries. You learn how to program basic GUIs (Graphical User Interfaces) with the popular Hitachi HD44780 LCD chipset.

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What will I learn?

Using Liquid Crystal Displays with Arduino
Using buttons and potentiometers as inputs to your GUI (graphical user interface)

Code libraries for using LCDs

Prerequisites

This course assumes you have a solid understanding on the Arduino platform and understand topics like libraries, and functions. If you have finished the Arduino Course for Absolute Beginners – then this training will be right up your alley.

Required Hardware

Arduino Compatible Board
Liquid Crystal Display Module (LCD) with parallel wiring (a 16 x 2 is used in the course, but other sizes should work fine too)

Pushbuttons (4)
10K Ohm Resistor (4)
10K potentiometer (2)
Solderless breadboard
Jumper Wires

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-Michael Myers, Longview, TX

"Armed with your information, last evening I was able to assemble the code to make an Uno read values from a Type-K thermocouple in Fahrenheit and output this information to a 16x2RGB LCD screen.

Cannot express the feeling I had when I saw something beyond Hello World!"
-Ken Quimby, Maumelle, AR

Course Description

Are you are interested in using an LCD for a graphical user interface (GUI)? Adding an LCD display to your devices are a great way to allow end users to interface with the features. Once you learn the basics from this course, you'll be all set to start building out your own menus and user input controls.

Length of Instruction: ~2 hours of HD video instruction.

Import Notes: The type of LCD demonstrated in these lessons is the common Hitachi HD44780 (or a compatible) chipset (Not the I2C versions).

Course Outline

LCD - Liquid Crystal Display course

Introduction to Liquid Crystal Displays
Setting Up an LCD Display
LiquidCrystal Library Functions Tour Part 1
LiquidCrystal Library Functions Tour Part 2
Graphical User Interface using Buttons
Fast Track: Graphical User Interface using Buttons
Graphical User Interface using a Potentiometer
Fast Track: Graphical User Interface using a Potentiometer