However, for many purposes, the humble HD44780 character LCD does the job just fine. If you’re using such a device, you might want to implement a simple menu system, and in that case ...

[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 ...

To build this project, all you need is three main components: an Arduino Uno, a 16x2 LCD, and a push button. You can connect everything to a breadboard to keep it simple.

So, what happens when we send a set of data to the LCD Device? Our resulting sketch will be almost simple. The most inspiring source to make this project comes from a blog post by Chris Parish ...

This module will investigate creating an interactive side-scrolling game using an Arduino. It will also provide experience with advanced usage of the 16x2 LCD screen and its scrolling capabilities.

More details on the use and features of this library can be found on the Arduino playground site. The first part of the sketch source don’t need great comments: #include <AlphaLCD.h> #include ...