Arduino boards are also ideal for hardware-centric projects ... for interfacing with frequently used components like ...

While the Alphanumeric LCD project for Arduino hardware aims to be simple, cheap and save as much as possible the available I/O ports (only three pins are used), in the same way the software to manage ...

These days, you could be forgiven for thinking driving an LCD from a microcontroller is ... Instead, [Ivan] decided to drive it directly from an Arduino Uno. This is easier said than done.

To link a standard 16×2 LCD directly with the microcontroller, 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 ...