Standard LCD 16×2 extras – white on blue

Description

Standard HD44780 LCDs are useful for creating standalone projects.

16 characters wide, 2 rows

White text on blue background

Connection port is 0.1″ pitch, single row for easy breadboarding and wiring

Pins are documented on the back of the LCD to assist in wiring it up

Single LED backlight included can be dimmed easily with a resistor or PWM and uses much less power than LCD with EL (electroluminescent) backlights

Can be fully controlled with only 6 digital lines! (Any analog/digital pins can be used)

Built in character set supports English/Japanese text, see the HD44780 datasheet for the full character set

Up to 8 extra characters can be created for custom glyphs or ‘foreign’ language support

Comes with necessary contrast potentiometer and strip of header

For more information, check out our detailed step-by-step Arduino+LCD tutorial

We have a datasheet that has dimensions and pin-locations and then a HD44780 datasheet with the detailed commands for control

Additional information