[Tobie’s] part of the hack is to use an Arduino and a few buttons as the controller. It’s easy to set up and we think the breadboarded controller approximates the size and weight of an LCD ...

Here’s an inexpensive Arduino-based MP3 Jukebox ... At any rate, to this he added a custom face plate to host the character LCD, rotary encoder, two buttons, and to act as a grill for the ...

We might think that an AVR microcontroller – e.g. the ATMega328p adopted by the Arduino UNO boards – has the sufficient number of pins to manage an alphanumeric LCD. In a complex industrial machine ...