Project Info
Author: Chris
Difficulty: Easy
Time Invested: 1 Hours
Prerequisites:
Take a look at the above
tutorials before continuing
to read this tutorial.
Author: Chris
Difficulty: Easy
Time Invested: 1 Hours
Prerequisites:
Take a look at the above
tutorials before continuing
to read this tutorial.
Moving beyond just displaying text, one awesome feature of these LCD's is that you can build your very own characters! Mind you, you are limited in how many you can create and how complex they can be, but this feature offers us some flexibilty to do cool things.
Purpose & Overview of this tutorial
For this tutorial I will outline two core goals:
[1] The end result should be able to display 8 custom character simultaneously on the LCD screen along with standard characters.
[2] A seperate program should be able to 'mimic' some type of simple animation, again using some custom characters built specifically for the animation.
By the time that we get all of this functionality working, we should have a very good understanding of the inner details of how the 16x2 LCD and the HD44780 module work beyond just displaying characters as we did in the first 16x2 LCD tutorial.