The V0 (also labelled as VEE) connection is for contrast control, and a potentiometer (10K) is usually attached to this terminal. Normally, the R/W terminal is tied to ground. For backlighting purpsoe ...

[Kaushlesh Chandel] prototyped a few projects on his Arduino that use an HD44780 Character LCD. Wanting to keep these projects in one piece, but not sacrifice his Arduino board, so he etched his ow… ...

The moment you got a gray brick dot matrix gameboy, you abandoned this crap forever. Also, these shitty LCD games existed well into the 90s. Tiger electronics was putting out gimmicky game after ...