Posted in clock hacks Tagged 16x2 LCD, arduino, character display, character lcd, digital clock, hd44780, i2c Post navigation ← Retrocomputing With Modern Hardware, No Emulation Required ...

Instead, [Nakul] is using the ubiquitous Hitachi HD44780 character LCD display. Normally these are used to display text, but they all have the ability to display custom 5 by 8 pixel characters.

So, what happens when we send a set of data to the LCD Device? Our resulting sketch will be almost simple. The most inspiring source to make this project comes from a blog post by Chris Parish ...