LCD 2x16, character, amber

LCD 2x16 amber characters, black background

You may be old enough to remember old amber monitors in early days of personal computing. If You are younger, maybe you know that from movies. Nostalgic look and feel. If You want to recreate elements of these feel in Your project, then this amber LCD can be useful.

This LCD is with HD44780 compatible interface, so You need 6 GPIO to drive it. Of course, standard I2C LCD adapter can be soldered and then your display can be controlled via I2C.

Specification:

• Supply voltage: 5V
• Current consumption:
  • LCD controller: 2 - 3 mA
  • Backlight when active: 120mA
• Size: 2 lines, 16 characters
• Driver compatible with HD44780
• Background: black
• Characters: orange/amber
• PCB size: 80 x 36 mm
• Mounting holes spacing: 75 x 31 mm
• Mounting holes size: 3 mm
• Character size: 2.45 x 5.00 mm
• Working temperatures : od -20C do +70C

Pinout:

As you can see, this module has parallel interface. To use it with I2C(TWI) You need I2C/LCD converter.

Pin	Role	Description	Notes
1	VSS	Ground
2	VDD	Power supply	+5V
3	V0	Brightness
4	RS	Register select	LOW - instruction HIGH - data
5	RW	Read/Write	LOW - read HIGH - write
6	E	Enable	HIGH enables writing to registers
7	DB0	Data bus
8	DB1	Data bus
9	DB2	Data bus
10	DB3	Data bus
11	DB4	Data bus
12	DB5	Data bus
13	DB6	Data bus
14	DB7	Data bus
15	A	Backlight	+5V
16	K	Backlight ground

Wyświetlacze znakowe (interfejs równoległy):

Wyświetlacze LCD I2C / SPI:

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