Cheap character LCD displays are more versatile than we give ... and also that as good as the Arduino platform is at getting beginners into coding, it doesn’t teach them how to do things right.

Circuits@Home have managed to host a USB keyboard with an Arduino and display the keyboard inputs on a character LCD. This uses the USB host shield we covered in August. That host shield includes ...

One of the limitations of the small 8 bit microcontrollers like the Atmel ATMega family adopted by the Arduino board ... we need to write bytes to the LCD device managing a timing series of steps (e.g ...

This allows connection to your Arduino (or other microcontroller) using only four channels. Yippee! Hitachi’s HD44780 based 16×2 character LCD are very cheap and widely available, and is an essential ...