hantronix large character 16x2 lcd displays pricelist

Hantronixlow cost TN, STN, FSTN, character displays are available from 8x1 to 40x4 formats. We also offer semi-custom and full custom alphanumeric designs tailored for a broad range of applications and markets including industrial, medical and consumer.

Part Number: Part Number Breakdown for Character Modules explains the derivation of our part numbers and includes a list of the most popular option combinations. (16k)

In this tutorial, we will display the custom characters on an LCD 16×2. Liquid crystal display (LCDs) offer a convenient and inexpensive way to provide a user interface for a project.

By far the most popular LCD used is the text panel based on the Hitachi HD44780 chip. This displays two or four lines of text, with 16 or 20 characters per line (32 and 40 character versions are also available, but usually at much higher prices).

We want to define and display custom characters or symbols (glyphs) that we have created. The symbols we want to display are not predefined in the LCD character memory.

A library for driving text LCD displays is provided with Arduino, and you can print text on your LCD easily as on the serial monitor because of LCD and serial share the same underlying print function.

To display custom characters on LCD, we must first know about the LCD dot matrix means pixels in LCD. There are 5 pixels in rows and 8 pixels in columns means every character is a combination of 5*8 dots.

The LiquidCrystal library enables you to create up to eight custom characters, which can be printed as character codes 0 through 8. Each character on the screen is drawn on a grid of 5 x 8 pixels.

To define a character, you need to create an array of eight bytes. Each byte defines one of the rows in the character. When written as a binary number, the 1 indicates a pixel is on, 0 is off (any values after the fifth bit are ignored).

Now We want to combine two or more custom characters to print larger fonts / double-height characters than a single character; for example, double-height numbers on the screen.

Each big number is built from six of these glyphs, three forming the upper half of the big digit and three forming the lower half. BiDigitsTop and bigDigitsBot are arrays defining which custom glyph is used for the top and bottom rows on the LCD screen.