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I assume that you want to read the input voltage that is modified by changing the setting of a potentiometer, a kind of variable resistor that has a knob that by twisting divides the incoming voltage into a different output voltage.

In this tutorial, I’ll explain how to set up an LCD on an Arduino and show you all the different ways you can program it. I’ll show you how to print text, scroll text, make custom characters, blink text, and position text. They’re great for any project that outputs data, and they can make your project a lot more interesting and interactive.

The display I’m using is a 16×2 LCD display that I bought for about $5. You may be wondering why it’s called a 16×2 LCD. The part 16×2 means that the LCD has 2 lines, and can display 16 characters per line. Therefore, a 16×2 LCD screen can display up to 32 characters at once. It is possible to display more than 32 characters with scrolling though.

The code in this article is written for LCD’s that use the standard Hitachi HD44780 driver. If your LCD has 16 pins, then it probably has the Hitachi HD44780 driver. These displays can be wired in either 4 bit mode or 8 bit mode. Wiring the LCD in 4 bit mode is usually preferred since it uses four less wires than 8 bit mode. In practice, there isn’t a noticeable difference in performance between the two modes. In this tutorial, I’ll connect the LCD in 4 bit mode.

Here’s a diagram of the pins on the LCD I’m using. The connections from each pin to the Arduino will be the same, but your pins might be arranged differently on the LCD. Be sure to check the datasheet or look for labels on your particular LCD:

Also, you might need to solder a 16 pin header to your LCD before connecting it to a breadboard. Follow the diagram below to wire the LCD to your Arduino:

There are 19 different functions in the LiquidCrystal library available for us to use. These functions do things like change the position of the text, move text across the screen, or make the display turn on or off. What follows is a short description of each function, and how to use it in a program.

TheLiquidCrystal() function sets the pins the Arduino uses to connect to the LCD. You can use any of the Arduino’s digital pins to control the LCD. Just put the Arduino pin numbers inside the parentheses in this order:

This function sets the dimensions of the LCD. It needs to be placed before any other LiquidCrystal function in the void setup() section of the program. The number of rows and columns are specified as lcd.begin(columns, rows). For a 16×2 LCD, you would use lcd.begin(16, 2), and for a 20×4 LCD you would use lcd.begin(20, 4).

This function clears any text or data already displayed on the LCD. If you use lcd.clear() with lcd.print() and the delay() function in the void loop() section, you can make a simple blinking text program:

Similar, but more useful than lcd.home() is lcd.setCursor(). This function places the cursor (and any printed text) at any position on the screen. It can be used in the void setup() or void loop() section of your program.

The cursor position is defined with lcd.setCursor(column, row). The column and row coordinates start from zero (0-15 and 0-1 respectively). For example, using lcd.setCursor(2, 1) in the void setup() section of the “hello, world!” program above prints “hello, world!” to the lower line and shifts it to the right two spaces:

You can use this function to write different types of data to the LCD, for example the reading from a temperature sensor, or the coordinates from a GPS module. You can also use it to print custom characters that you create yourself (more on this below). Use lcd.write() in the void setup() or void loop() section of your program.

The function lcd.noCursor() turns the cursor off. lcd.cursor() and lcd.noCursor() can be used together in the void loop() section to make a blinking cursor similar to what you see in many text input fields:

Cursors can be placed anywhere on the screen with the lcd.setCursor() function. This code places a blinking cursor directly below the exclamation point in “hello, world!”:

This function creates a block style cursor that blinks on and off at approximately 500 milliseconds per cycle. Use it in the void loop() section. The function lcd.noBlink() disables the blinking block cursor.

This function turns on any text or cursors that have been printed to the LCD screen. The function lcd.noDisplay() turns off any text or cursors printed to the LCD, without clearing it from the LCD’s memory.

This function takes anything printed to the LCD and moves it to the left. It should be used in the void loop() section with a delay command following it. The function will move the text 40 spaces to the left before it loops back to the first character. This code moves the “hello, world!” text to the left, at a rate of one second per character:

Like the lcd.scrollDisplay() functions, the text can be up to 40 characters in length before repeating. At first glance, this function seems less useful than the lcd.scrollDisplay() functions, but it can be very useful for creating animations with custom characters.

lcd.noAutoscroll() turns the lcd.autoscroll() function off. Use this function before or after lcd.autoscroll() in the void loop() section to create sequences of scrolling text or animations.

This function sets the direction that text is printed to the screen. The default mode is from left to right using the command lcd.leftToRight(), but you may find some cases where it’s useful to output text in the reverse direction:

This code prints the “hello, world!” text as “!dlrow ,olleh”. Unless you specify the placement of the cursor with lcd.setCursor(), the text will print from the (0, 1) position and only the first character of the string will be visible.

This command allows you to create your own custom characters. Each character of a 16×2 LCD has a 5 pixel width and an 8 pixel height. Up to 8 different custom characters can be defined in a single program. To design your own characters, you’ll need to make a binary matrix of your custom character from an LCD character generator or map it yourself. This code creates a degree symbol (°):

This tutorial includes everything you need to know about controlling a character LCD with Arduino. I have included a wiring diagram and many example codes. These displays are great for displaying sensor data or text and they are also fairly cheap.

The first part of this article covers the basics of displaying text and numbers. In the second half, I will go into more detail on how to display custom characters and how you can use the other functions of the LiquidCrystal Arduino library.

As you will see, you need quite a lot of connections to control these displays. I therefore like to use them with an I2C interface module mounted on the back. With this I2C module, you only need two connections to control the LCD. Check out the tutorial below if you want to use an I2C module as well:

These LCDs are available in many different sizes (16×2 1602, 20×4 2004, 16×1 etc.), but they all use the same HD44780 parallel interface LCD controller chip from Hitachi. This means you can easily swap them. You will only need to change the size specifications in your Arduino code.

For more information, you can check out the datasheets below. The 16×2 and 20×4 datasheets include the dimensions of the LCD and in the HD44780 datasheet you can find more information about the Hitachi LCD driver.

Most LCDs have a built-in series resistor for the LED backlight. You should find it on the back of the LCD connected to pin 15 (Anode). If your display doesn’t include a resistor, you will need to add one between 5 V and pin 15. It should be safe to use a 220Ω resistor, but this value might make your display a bit dim. You can check the datasheet for the maximum current rating of the backlight and use this to select an appropriate resistor value.

After you have wired up the LCD, you will need to adjust the contrast of the display. This is done by turning the 10 kΩ potentiometer clockwise or counterclockwise.

Plug in the USB connector of the Arduino to power the LCD. You should see the backlight light up. Now rotate the potentiometer until one (16×2 LCD) or 2 rows (20×4 LCD) of rectangles appear.

In order to control the LCD and display characters, you will need to add a few extra connections. Check the wiring diagram below and the pinout table from the introduction of this article.

We will be using the LCD in 4-bit mode, this means you don’t need to connect anything to D0-D3. The R/W pin is connected to ground, this will pull the pin LOW and set the LCD to WRITE mode.

To control the LCD we will be using the LiquidCrystal library. This library should come pre-installed with the Arduino IDE. You can find it by going to Sketch > Include Library > LiquidCrystal.

The example code below shows you how to display a message on the LCD. Next, I will show you how the code works and how you can use the other functions of the LiquidCrystal library.

After including the library, the next step is to create a new instance of the LiquidCrystal class. The is done with the function LiquidCrystal(rs, enable, d4, d5, d6, d7). As parameters we use the Arduino pins to which we connected the display. Note that we have called the display ‘lcd’. You can give it a different name if you want like ‘menu_display’. You will need to change ‘lcd’ to the new name in the rest of the sketch.

In the loop() the cursor is set to the third column and first row of the LCD with lcd.setCursor(2,0). Note that counting starts at 0, and the first argument specifies the column. If you do not specify the cursor position, the text will be printed at the default home position (0,0) if the display is empty, or behind the last printed character.

Next, the string ‘Hello World!’ is printed with lcd.print("Hello World!"). Note that you need to place quotation marks (” “) around the text. When you want to print numbers or variables, no quotation marks are necessary.

Clears the LCD screen and positions the cursor in the upper-left corner (first row and first column) of the display. You can use this function to display different words in a loop.

This function turns off any text or cursors printed to the LCD. The text/data is not cleared from the LCD memory. This means it will be shown again when the function display() is called.

Scrolls the contents of the display (text and cursor) one space to the left. You can use this function in the loop section of the code in combination with delay(500), to create a scrolling text animation.

This function turns on automatic scrolling of the LCD. This causes each character output to the display to push previous characters over by one space. If the current text direction is left-to-right (the default), the display scrolls to the left; if the current direction is right-to-left, the display scrolls to the right. This has the effect of outputting each new character to the same location on the LCD.

The following example sketch enables automatic scrolling and prints the character 0 to 9 at the position (16,0) of the LCD. Change this to (20,0) for a 20×4 LCD.

With the function createChar() it is possible to create and display custom characters on the LCD. This is especially useful if you want to display a character that is not part of the standard ASCII character set.

Technical info: LCDs that are based on the Hitachi HD44780 LCD controller have two types of memories: CGROM and CGRAM (Character Generator ROM and RAM). CGROM generates all the 5 x 8 dot character patterns from the standard 8-bit character codes. CGRAM can generate user-defined character patterns.

/* Example sketch to create and display custom characters on character LCD with Arduino and LiquidCrystal library. For more info see www.www.makerguides.com */

After including the library and creating the LCD object, the custom character arrays are defined. Each array consists of 8 bytes, 1 byte for each row. In this example 8 custom characters are created.

In this article I have shown you how to use an alphanumeric LCD with Arduino. I hope you found it useful and informative. If you did, please share it with a friend that also likes electronics and making things!

I would love to know what projects you plan on building (or have already built) with these LCDs. If you have any questions, suggestions, or if you think that things are missing in this tutorial, please leave a comment down below.

Hello friend welcome to “Techno-E-Solution” in this article we are going to learn how to connect LCD display with Arduino Uno and print "Hello World!" on LCD using Arduino Uno. The 16x2 LCD is most popular LCD in electronics projects. In upcoming project we need this display in our project so it"s the beginners level tutorial learn this tutorial with fun. So friends let"s get started..........

In this article discuss about the interfacing of a 16x2 Liquid Crystal Display with Arduino Uno. And then read the analog value using the inbuilt ADC of Arduino Uno. Here I am going to connect the LCD in parallel way. We can also interface this LCD with only just 4 wires. (I2C communication is used there). Stay tuned for that article. This article help you to interface LCD with Arduino and make your project to fight against Covid -19This article is mainly for beginners.The code explained line by line.

Why it is called 16x2 ? Because you can write 16 characters or numbers in column wise and 2 in row wise. This display have total of 16 pins. Here I only use 12 pins. Here we use the pins except D0, D1, D2, D3. Because here I interface the LCD in 4 bit mode.

Next initialize the library with the number of the interface pins. With the function "LiquidCrystal lcd()". The function has six attributes. These are the interface pins in the order of "RS, E, D4, D5, D6, D7". Here we use pins 12, 11, 5, 4, 3, 2. corresponding to above.LiquidCrystal lcd(12, 11, 5, 4, 3, 2);

Now can call this display by "lcd". Next program the setup part. We need to set the number of columns and number of rows. Here I am using the LCD with 16 column and 2 rows. Set the number of columns and rows by the function "lcd.begin(16, 2)". If you have a display with 16 columns and 4 rows this become "lcd.begin(16, 4)". And set the A0 pin as input.lcd.begin(16,2);

We need a starting point to start printing. So set the cursor to that particular point by the function "lcd.setCursor()". This function have only two attribute. It is that starting points.(The number of column and number of row). Here I am staring from first column first row. The first column is represented as 0, second is 1, and so on and the first raw is represented as 0, second is 1. So we need to start from the position (0, 0). You can easily understand if you know about matrix. The piece of code become,lcd.setCursor(0,0);

Next is the core part of this article. The instruction to print. I am going to print "Hello Hackster" by the instruction "lcd.print()". Alternatively you can print any thing. Please don, t forgot the double quote marks.lcd.print("Hello Hackster");

In the above printing statement we use total of 14 characters. So the current position of cursor is at (14, 0). Next I am going to print on the next line, ie the position (0, 1). Set the cursor to that point by the function "lcd.setCursor()".lcd.setCursor(0,1);

Now the cursor is at the position of second row and first column(0, 1). Then print another text "Value" by the function lcd.print().lcd.print("Value : ");

Here we use 8 characters in second line. So the current position of cursor is (8, 1). Next we need to read the analog value from the pin A0. For more about analog value conversion please see my previous article here. And print it to the display. I use the function "analogRead()" function to read the analog value and use the "lcd.print()" function to print the value to the display. And there is no need of double qunotes.lcd.print(analogRead(A0));

Next I add some delay. Otherwise the text will blinks continusoly. That because of the first instruction "lcd.clear()". Every time when see this command the Arduino will clear the display, This results the blinking of display. But use of delay will decrease this blinking.delay(500);

Connect the LCD to the Arduino Uno. You can use a breadboard or just use the jumber wires. For permanent connection use a LCD shield for Arduino Uno.The connection diagram is given in the Schematics part. Please careful about the backlight LED connection. Over voltage will kill that LED.Please don"t copy-paste my code. Try to understand the code line by line and create your own sketch.

On an LCD the potentiometer is used to adjust the bias level of the LCD - that is the contrast. You need to use it to set a voltage between Vcc and Vee, which you feed into Vo. That is, a voltage somewhere between +5V and -5V.

You can, however, do it with two resistors. Some experimentation will provide the right values to use. Pick a pair of resistors which add up to around 10K (the exact value doesn"t matter that much) and join them together end to end. The two ends are the equivalent to the ends of the track of the potentiometer, and the join in the middle is the wiper.

To change the "value" of the potentiometer you then need to change the value of both resistors. If you reduce one resistor you need to increase the other so that they still add up to around the same value. What you are working with here is not the actual values of the resistors, but the ratio of the values of the two resistors.

If you have some different value resistors, you can try some different combinations of 2 resistors, to form a voltage divider (a pot is basically a variable voltage divider). Try to find a combination where the contrast of the display is good enough to read.

To make the process of guessing a bit easier you can create a pot by drawing a thick line with some pencil (http://www.instructables.com/id/Make-a-Pencils-Lead-Potentiometer-Experimentatio/). Connect ground to one end, and 3.3v to the other. Add a lead to the contrast pin and move it around the line, till the contrast is good. Next take you multimeter and measure the voltage at that point. Then calculate a resistor combination that will produce that voltage.

Can you post a high quality picture of the back of the module? I"ve gotten some 1602 LCDs where I had to add or remove a resistor to enable the contrast pin.

In various bridge circuits, in order to adjust the bridge balance, the potentiometer must be adjusted multiple times to balance the bridge. During use, when these potentiometers are subjected to vibration, shock, temperature, humidity, etc. Under the influence of environmental factors, the position and parameters of the potentiometer will change, causing the system index to change. To make the system reach the original state, it must be adjusted, which brings a lot of inconvenience to the use. For this reason, in the bridge arm circuit of the bridge The use of array potentiometers and digital technology not only overcomes the above shortcomings, but also greatly improves the accuracy of the system. The X9C104 is a 100-order digital potentiometer, specifically X9C102/103/104/503 series, with a resistance range of 40R~100K. The X9C104 contains 99 resistor arrays inside, which are slid between each unit and at both ends. The tap point of the unit access, the position of the sliding unit is controlled by the three inputs of CS, U/D and INC. Once the position is selected, it can be stored in the non-volatile memory and can be recalled after the next power-on. The changes in the digital potentiometer are stepped or incremental, and the resistance changes linearly. For example, X9C104, with a resistance range of 40R~100K, is divided into 100 steps, and the increment of each tap point is 1010R. Temperature compensation function: resistance error between terminals: ±20%; sliding position data can be saved for a long time; high resistance resolution: 1%.

LCD is a liquid crystal display. This type of display is made by inserting some liquid between two plates. Using these LCDs we can easily see Arduino outputs. Everything shown on the Arduino IDE Serial Monitor can be displayed on this LCD screen. There are two main types of LCD screens. That is a 16*2 and 16*4. Today we will be using a 16 * 2 type LCD display for our project.

We can display 32 characters on this LCD screen. It has 16 pins to provide input. Of these 16 pins, VSS and VDD pins are used to power it. The contrast of the letters can be controlled by the VO pin. For that, It must be powered by a potentiometer. The PIN named RS selects the registry where the data should be stored. The R / W pin should be connected to the GND pin. The enable pin is called the E-pin. That PIN is required to send data. The D0 to D7 pins are used to send data to the LCD screen. All eight pins are used to send data via an 8-bit mode. D4 to D7 pins are used for the 4-bit model. Today we will use the 4-bit mode for this project. The A and K pins are used to turns ON the screen backlight. Let’s do it practically. The required components are as follows.

The following is an improved project of this code. I have not used a potentiometer for that. OK let’s look at this project. The circuit diagram and source code for this project is given below.