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Display Text on LCD

Screenshot of 108-text-lcd

There are many variants of liquid crystal displays (LCD). Among them, text displays are simplest to communicate with. A text LCD can expose either of physical interfaces:

  • I2C
  • Parallel

XOD supports both.

Circuit (parallel interface) #

Assembling LCD with parallel interface to Uno

↓ Download as a Fritzing project

Circuit (I2C interface) #

Assembling LCD with I2C interface to Uno

↓ Download as a Fritzing project

Exercise #

Let’s show some text on an LCD.

  1. Examine your LCD and decide which node fits it. Remove another one.
  2. Assemble the circuit that matches your LCD model.
  3. Bind pins or set the I2C address.
  4. Bind “Wuzzup!” to the L1 pin.
  5. Link tweak-string with L2.
  6. Upload the patch with the interactive session enabled.
  7. Select tweak-string.
  8. Type some text and press the Enter key.

👆 Too many variations #

The world of text LCDs is too wide to guess your LCD pinout and parameters. The provided circuit will work for some models, but not for others. Refer to your particular display documentation to precisely determine its address, data pinout, contrast pin wiring, digital and backlight powering scheme.

For the rest of the tutorial we assume you have an I²C LCD listening on 27h address. Adjust patches accordingly if you’ve got another model.

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