HD44780 LCDs are the most popular alphanumeric displays in embedded systems. The only downside is that they use six I/O pins in 4-bit nibble mode and as many as 11 pins in 8-bit mode. Earlier Design ...

NXP Semiconductors N.V. introduced the LPC11D00 and LPC12D00 series of microcontrollers — the first ARM® Cortex™-M0 microcontrollers with integrated segment LCD drivers, enabling high contrast and ...

[El Artis] just finished building an audio spectrum analyzer that uses a character LCD. The uses an Arduino to drive the display, but unlike other meters that use the microcontroller for analysis, [El ...

[CNLohr] has been tinkering with some fun parts of late. He’d found out that ordinary LCD screens could be used as simple touch sensors, and he had to try it for himself. He ended up building a little ...