Normally driving an LCD requires seven connections to pins on the display, but by using a shift register, [Phillip Warner] at Arduino Playground ... with the requisite code to make this work ...

[Ivan]’s LCD was ... The display featured no onboard controller, and the original driver wasn’t easily repurposed. Instead, [Ivan] decided to drive it directly from an Arduino Uno.

Assume that you are moving towards a complex microcontroller project bundled with blinkers, beepers, and a display panel. To link a standard 16×2 LCD directly with the microcontroller, for instance ...

If you are interested in creating a DIY Arduino wind speed meter or ... record mph rather than m/s and added extra code to support the 16×2 LCD display. After the initial setup was wired together ...