This is a very popular LCD Keypad shield for Arduino or Freeduino board. It includes a 2x16 LCD display and 6 momentary push buttons. Pins 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 are used to interface with the LCD. Analog Pin 0 is used to read the push buttons. The LCD shield supports contrast adjustment and backlit on/off functions. It also expands analog pins for easy analog sensor reading and display.

The LCD Keypad shield is developed for Arduino compatible boards, to provide a user-friendly interface that allows users to go through the menu, make selections etc. It consists of a 1602 white character blue backlight LCD. The keypad consists of 5 keys — select, up, right, down and left. To save the digital IO pins, the keypad interface uses only one ADC channel. The key value is read through a 5 stage voltage divider.

Initializes the interface to the LCD screen, and specifies the dimensions (width and height) of the display. begin() needs to be called before any other LCD library commands.for example:

The Keypad/Display Wildcard provides a hardware and software interface for a 5x4 keypad and 4x20 liquid crystal display (LCD). These devices connect to the Wildcard via a simple "straight-through" ribbon cable interface. Pre-coded routines (available to both C and Forth programmers) scan the keypad and write to the LCD display.

With the power off, the Wildcard may be mounted on a QCard, PDQ Board, or PowerDock by directly plugging connector H1 into a Wildcard Port connector on the controller. The corner mounting holes on the module should line up with the standoffs on the controller.

The Wildcard bus does not have keyed connectors. Be sure to insert the module so that all pins are connected. The Wildcard bus and the Wildcard can be permanently damaged if the connection is done incorrectly.

Each Wildcard Port accommodates up to four Wildcards, at four different module addresses: 0, 1,2, or 3 if installed on Port 0, and 4, 5, 6, or 7 if installed on Port 1. A PDQ Board has two Wildcard ports, and the QCard has only one Wildcard port, Port 0. Even so, if the QCard is mounted on a PowerDock it can hold four Wildcards on the QCard, and four more on Port 1 of the PowerDock. You should set the module addresses on the Wildcards in your system so that they do not conflict, that is, so that no two modules on the same port have the same address (jumper settings). Jumpers J1 and J2 allow you to select the module address.

On the QCard platform, the Keypad/Display Wildcard must be configured at module address 0 to properly access the software drivers. On the PDQ Board platform, any module address from 0 to 7 can be specified. Use the following table to determine the jumper settings you need for each module address. In the application code, declare the module (Wildcard) address using the function Set_Display_Modulenum; the declared module address must match the hardware jumper settings.

The Wildcard can accommodate liquid crystal display modules up to 4 lines by 20 characters in size. If your display still has a clear plastic cover to protect the display glass from scratches during shipment don’t forget to peel it off.

A contrast potentiometer is located on the board. The Wildcard is shipped with a high-contrast "supertwist" LCD display that has a wide viewing angle. In most applications the contrast/viewing angle potentiometer can be left in its default setting, as shipped from the factory, with no adjustments required. If you wish to change the contrast setting, simply twist the potentiometer using a small screwdriver. While the 4x20 character displays provide good contrast over a wide viewing angle at a fixed contrast value, the contrast may need to be readjusted if the temperature changes significantly.

ScanKeypad?KEYPADScans the keypad and if a key is being pressed it waits for a key release, returning with the key number. Calls Pause while waiting to enable multitasking. If no key is being pressed, it returns immediately with a -1.

Your controller includes built-in software drivers for an LCD up to 4 lines by 20 characters in size. A ribbon cable connects the board to the display.

As described above, the Set_Display_Modulenum function declares the module number of the Keypad/Display Wildcard. On the QCard platform, module number 0 must be used, and Set_Display_Modulenum prints a warning if a non-zero module number is specified. On the PDQ Board platform, any module number in the range 0 to 7 can be specified using Set_Display_Modulenum. In all cases, the hardware jumpers J1 and J2 must be set to correspond to the declared module number as described in setting-the-jumpers.

Let’s take a look at the definition of the ShowMessage function whose source code can be found near the bottom of the wkpddemo file. This function writes a message to the LCD Display. The definition of the function is:_Q void ShowMessage(void)

followed by a carriage return. Be sure to type at least one space after the ( character. You should see the welcoming message appear on your LCD display. You will also see at your terminal a line of text that summarizes the return value of the function in several formats (decimal, hexadecimal, and floating point), followed by the "ok" prompt. Because the ShowMessage function does not return anything, the return value summary is not useful here. The "ok" prompt indicates that controller has successfully called the function and is now ready to execute another command.

After executing EXERCISE.KEYPAD, the identifier of each key that you press is displayed as a 2-digit number (in the current BASE) on the LCD display. Type a carriage return at the terminal and press one final key on the keypad to exit the routine.

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A seven-segment display is a form of electronic display device for displaying decimal numerals that is an alternative to the more complex dot matrix displays.

Seven-segment displays are widely used in digital clocks, electronic meters, basic calculators, and other electronic devices that display numerical information.

Some early seven-segment displays used incandescent filaments in an evacuated bulb; they are also known as numitrons.potted box. Minitrons are filament segment displays that are housed in DIP packages like modern LED segment displays. They may have up to 16 segments.

Many early (c. 1970s) LED seven-segment displays had each digit built on a single die. This made the digits very small. Some included magnifying lenses onto the design in an attempt to make the digits more legible.

The seven-segment pattern is sometimes used in posters or tags, where the user either applies color to pre-printed segments, or applies color through a seven-segment digit template, to compose figures such as product prices or telephone numbers.

For many applications, dot-matrix LCDs have largely superseded LED displays in general, though even in LCDs, seven-segment displays are common. Unlike LEDs, the shapes of elements in an LCD panel are arbitrary since they are formed on the display by photolithography. In contrast, the shapes of LED segments tend to be simple rectangles, reflecting the fact that they have to be physically moulded to shape, which makes it difficult to form more complex shapes than the segments of 7-segment displays. However, the high recognition factor of seven-segment displays, and the comparatively high visual contrast obtained by such displays relative to dot-matrix digits, makes seven-segment multiple-digit LCD screens very common on basic calculators.

The seven-segment display has inspired type designers to produce typefaces reminiscent of that display (but more legible), such as New Alphabet, "DB LCD Temp", "ION B", etc.

Using a restricted range of letters that look like (upside-down) digits, seven-segment displays are commonly used by school children to form words and phrases using a technique known as "calculator spelling".

Seven-segment displays may use a liquid crystal display (LCD), a light-emitting diode (LED) for each segment, an electrochromic display, or other light-generating or controlling techniques such as cold cathode gas discharge (Panaplex), vacuum fluorescent (VFD), incandescent filaments (Numitron), and others. For gasoline price totems and other large signs, vane displays made up of electromagnetically flipped light-reflecting segments (or "vanes") are still commonly used. A precursor to the 7-segment display in the 1950s through the 1970s was the cold-cathode, neon-lamp-like nixie tube. Starting in 1970, RCA sold a display device known as the Numitron that used incandescent filaments arranged into a seven-segment display.electroluminescent display.

In a simple LED package, typically all of the cathodes (negative terminals) or all of the anodes (positive terminals) of the segment LEDs are connected and brought out to a common pin; this is referred to as a "common cathode" or "common anode" device.IC sockets. Integrated displays also exist, with single or multiple digits. Some of these integrated displays incorporate their own internal decoder, though most do not: each individual LED is brought out to a connecting pin as described.

Multiple-digit LED displays as used in pocket calculators and similar devices used multiplexed displays to reduce the number of I/O pins required to control the display. For example, all the anodes of the A segments of each digit position would be connected together and to a driver circuit pin, while the cathodes of all segments for each digit would be connected. To operate any particular segment of any digit, the controlling integrated circuit would turn on the cathode driver for the selected digit, and the anode drivers for the desired segments; then after a short blanking interval the next digit would be selected and new segments lit, in a sequential fashion. In this manner an eight digit display with seven segments and a decimal point would require only 8 cathode drivers and 8 anode drivers, instead of sixty-four drivers and IC pins.

The seven segments are arranged as a rectangle of two vertical segments on each side with one horizontal segment on the top, middle, and bottom. Often the rectangle is hexagons, though trapezoids and rectangles can also be used), though in the case of adding machines, the vertical segments are longer and more oddly shaped at the ends in an effort to further enhance readability. The seven elements of the display can be lit in different combinations to represent the Arabic numerals.

The segments are referred to by the letters A to G, where the optional decimal point (an "eighth segment", referred to as DP) is used for the display of non-integer numbers.gfedcba and abcdefg. In the gfedcba representation, a byte value of 0x06 would turn on segments "c" and "b", which would display a "1".

Alternate patterns: The numeral 1 may be represented with the left segments, the numerals 6 and 9 may be represented without a "tail", and the numeral 7 represented with a "tail":

In Unicode 13.0, 10 codepoints had been given for segmented digits 0–9 in the Symbols for Legacy Computing block, to replicate early computer fonts that included seven-segment versions of the digits.

Most letters of the Latin alphabet can be reasonably implemented using seven segments. Though not every letter is available, it is possible to create many useful words. By choosing better synonyms, it is possible to work around many shortcomings of seven-segment alphabet encodings. Some uppercase letters ("I", "O", "S", "Z") look identical to numerical digits ("1", "0", "5", "2"), though it is possible to use lower-case "o" and "i", or putting "I" on the left. Lowercase letters "b" and "q" are identical to the alternate numerical digits "6" and "9". Depending on the situation, some of these problem characters can be used when no numeric values are used in the same word/phrase, see examples below.

Short messages giving status information (e.g. "no dISC" on a CD player) are also commonly represented on 7-segment displays. In the case of such messages it is not necessary for every letter to be unambiguous, merely for the words as a whole to be readable.

There are enough patterns to show all the letters but few representations are unambiguous and intuitive at the same time.sixteen-segment and dot matrix displays are better choices than seven-segment displays.

Seven segments are capable of displaying some punctuation glyph characters. The hex value for each Unicode character is shown, of which the lower 8-bits of most of these exist as ASCII characters too.

There are also fourteen- and sixteen-segment displays (for full alphanumerics); however, these have mostly been replaced by dot matrix displays. Twenty-two-segment displays capable of displaying the full ASCII character set

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"DL-3422 4-digit 22-segment alphanumeric Intelligent Display preliminary data sheet". Internet Archive. Litronix 1982 Optoelectronics Catalog. p. 82. Retrieved 2016-09-03.