My adventures with a Raspberry Pi and Arduino programming

LCD display working finally

Thu 05/Nov/2015

Finally got around to getting my display working. I had thought I had a broken display but turns out that although Arduino analog pins can be configured to be digital pins, that won’t work with standard parallel mode LCD displays. Plugging all 6 pins to digital works fine.

Power usage stats (LCD + Arduino pro mini 3.3V):-

  • LCD backlight, no text – 3.69 mA
  • LCD backlight, 16×2 text – 3.70 mA
  • No LCD backlight, 16×2 text – 0.71 mA

So no prizes for guessing what mode I’ll have it in most of the time! I’ll have it off (no displayed text, no backlight)

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  1. Joystick controller and Menu system | Raspberry Ralph said:
    Fri 06/Nov/2015 at 00:23

    […] I’m now creating a library to manage a Menu system using the joystick. The menu system will support 16×2 monochrome parallel LCD screens, like the one I just got working. […]

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