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 ...

This suits the commonly available Arduino shields which combine a 16×2 character LCD with a set of four tactile buttons in a cross formation. However, modifying the code to use an alternate ...

[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 ...

I cannot get over how easy it is to get code running on an Arduino, allowing me to write the code to try to connect to a 20 character x 4 line LCD (wearing an I2C-to-parallel ... to quickly and ...