Cheap character LCD displays are more versatile than we give them credit for. Most of the cheapies have a 5×8 character display, which looks blocky but legible when you have an appropriate font. Where ...

We really like to see hardware hackers stepping out of the safe and polished boundaries of available Arduino libraries. One example of this is a project which [Matteo] thought worked: using a shift ...

The PCA2117 is a low-power Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) controller and driver. It is specifically designed to drive LCD dot-matrix displays of 2‑lines by 20 characters or 1‑line by 40 characters with ...

‘We need you to guarantee availability of this LCD for five or seven or ten years.’ — Design Engineer ‘We need you to guarantee availability of this LCD for five or seven or ten years.’ — Design ...

I like to think I'm a man of many talents, but this doesn't mean that I've given up trying new things. This week I've been dabbling in mysterious black arts in an attempt to hone my psychic powers, ...