Tag Archives: LCD

Printing text on an LCD display using switches

Posted on September 13, 2020 by blogmywiki

There’s a YouTuber called the 8-Bit Guy who’s made a fantastic project where he gets text on an LCD display just using switches instead of a micro-controller or computer. He made his (video below) in a nice box with chunky … Continue reading →

Posted in computers, hardware | Tagged | Leave a comment

LCD colour display for micro:bit

Posted on November 8, 2019 by blogmywiki

I love displays so I couldn’t resist this £10 Waveshare colour LCD that plugs straight into the micro:bit’s edge connector. It’s small, 1.8 inches across, and with a resolution of 160×128 pixels, but just the right size to match a … Continue reading →

Posted in computers, microbit | Tagged , , , | 11 Comments

Add a 16×2 LCD display to a micro:bit

Posted on April 2, 2019 by blogmywiki

I had one of these cheap 16 x 2 LCD display modules hanging around that I bought to go with some Arduino or Raspberry Pi project that I never finished – in fact I couldn’t get the thing to work … Continue reading →

Posted in microbit | Tagged , , | 9 Comments

Scrolling LCD text on Arduino/Raspberry Pi

Posted on December 30, 2013 by blogmywiki

As part of my Raspberry Pi/Arduino internet radio project, I’m tinkering with getting the display to show something other than the station name and the time and date – the weather, for example. Now we’ve been having quite a lot … Continue reading →

Posted in Arduino, Debian, Raspberry Pi, Raspbian | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

Pi shall tweet unto Arduino

Posted on September 16, 2012 by blogmywiki

More work to do, but big breakthroughs with FridgeGizmo today. I got the RaspberryPi pulling London weather and random worldwide tweets and trends and displaying them on my LCD display via an Arduino Uno. I installed Apache 2, the Apache … Continue reading →

Posted in Arduino, computers, hardware, internet, Raspberry Pi, Raspbian | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment