[Andy Brown] wrote in to show off the TFT LCD adapter he’s been working on for connecting inexpensive displays to an Arduino Mega. These TFT LCD screens can be picked up on eBay for a few dollars.

[Tobie’s] part of the hack is to use an Arduino and a few buttons as the controller. It’s easy to set up and we think the breadboarded controller approximates the size and weight of an LCD ...

We might think that an AVR microcontroller – e.g. the ATMega328p adopted by the Arduino UNO boards – has the sufficient number of pins to manage an alphanumeric LCD. In a complex industrial machine ...

Assume that you are moving towards a complex microcontroller project bundled with blinkers, beepers, and a display panel. To link a standard 16×2 LCD directly with the microcontroller, for instance ...