for instance Arduino, you would need atleast 6 I/O pins to talk to the LCD. However, if you use an LCD module with I2C interface, you only need 2 lines to process the display information. Now a days, ...

Interfacing these displays with anything besides ... and a power supply for the LCD and its backlight. On the things [twl] has in his ‘to-do’ list, porting Doom to run on a cellphone display ...

However, for many purposes, the humble HD44780 character LCD ... interface for your microcontroller projects. It’s the sort of thing you might use if you’d built a do-everything Arduino ...