His adapter board ... line called for by the LCD protocol. This means you don’t lose any extra pins. Another way to uses the displays with Arduino is to use a smart controller for TFT screens.

With the new Arduino Leonardo board able to emulate ... for an SPI-controlled TFT LCD display, lest you would want to recreate something like the new Wii U controller on your own.

To link a standard 16×2 LCD directly with the microcontroller, for instance Arduino, you would need atleast 6 I/O pins to talk to the LCD. However, if you use an LCD module with I2C interface, you ...