micro bit lcd display made in china

Micor:bit has variety of programming methods like mbed, micropython, typescript and other programming methods, as well as code online websites which are abundant.

Place the block before send display data. You can choose the position, color and size. For the screen, (1,1) is on top-left, and (160,128) is on bottom-right

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Overhere we will show you what is the I2C LCD 1602 Display and how it works, you can follow the next lesson to get how to use the I2C LCD 1602 Display with the micro bit.

The integration of an LCD display greatly facilitates the interactivity of the project you are developing, allowing the user to directly read some output parameters. These values can be either a simple text or numerical values read by the sensors, such as temperature or pressure, or even the number of cycles that the Arduino is performing.

However, these displays have a small problem. When they are connected to a microcontroller (such as Micro bit for example), these displays require virtually many connection PINs occupying practically almost all available IO and leaving the multiprocessor few outputs for any other devices and sensors. This problem has been solved thanks to the communication on the I2C bus.

The LCD1602 display has an integrated microchip that manages this type of communication, and then all of the input and output information are limited to only two PINs (excluding power supply). I2C is a type of serial bus developed by Philips, which uses two bidirectional lines, called SDA (Serial Data Line) and SCL (Serial Clock Line). Both must be connected via pulled-up resistors. The usage voltages are standard as 5V and 3.3V.

The blue potentiometer on the I2C LCD1602 (see the figure below) is used to adjust the backlight  for better display.And there is a jumper on the board, if you take away this jumper , the backlight will aways be off.

Because the output power of the micro bit is limited, please connect the USB cable to the USB port on the micro bit when downloading the program. After the program is successfully downloaded to the board, connect the USB cable to the USB port on the expansion board, ensure the LCD display can work perfectly.

If you are not familiar to make code, don’t worry. At first, you can enter this link: https://makecode.microbit.org/reference to get the reference of microbit block.

After downloaded this code to your micro bit, pull out the USB line and insert the USB line to the expansion board, you will see “OSOYOO”，”Hello” on the LCD screen, then the entire screen will be full of random numbers.

The ST7290 allows you to define up to four 16x16 bitmaps. These bitmaps can be shown in any 16-bit location in the DDRAM, occupying the place of two individual characters.

At startup, we can now load our bitmaps into one or more of the CGRAM locations. Let"s make outselves some Space Invader aliens!void load_custom_bitmaps() {

The MakerBit connects to the BBC micro:bit to provide easy connections to a wide variety of sensors, actuators and other components, for example a LCD display.

Displays a text on a LCD1602 in the given position range. The text will be cropped if it is longer than the provided range. If there is space left, it will be filled with whitespaces.

Get meaningful text readouts from your microbit projects with the Kitronik :VIEW Text32, a 32 character 2 line display that has a microbit style edge connector.

The Kitronik :VIEW Text32 character LCD, for those times when the LED Matrix and/or external LEDs aren"t delivering adequate visual feedback from your microbit project. The :VIEW Text32 is a character LCD showing 32 characters (2 lines of 16 characters). The :VIEW Text32 also breaks out the BBC micro:bit pins to edge pads (excluding pin14).

The bottom edge of the board has a replication of the BBC microbits own edge connector, this allows you to plug the :VIEW Text32 into any board that the microbit itself can be slotted into. This is great news if your project outputs strings of text and numbers that previously would have slowly scrolled across the LED Matrix.

The board has been designed so that the BBC micro:bit can be slotted into the edge connector on the top side of the PCB. No extra tools are required for installation, the board is supplied and ready to go --plug and play/work!

On the back of the :VIEW Text32 is a 3 x AAA battery holder to provide power to the :VIEW Text32, the attached micro:bit, and the replicated edge connector. There is a power switch for turning the battery supply on and off. The replicated edge connector can supply 90mA (as per the normal micro:bit)

Kitronik has produced a set of custom blocks for the Microsoft MakeCode editor. To add them click on the cog icon in the top right of the editor, then; select Extensions from the drop down menu, type and enter Kitronik into the search bar and select the :VIEW Text32 tile from the list. The custom blocks will now be added to the editor and can be used in your code.

STONE intelligent TFT LCD module with a Cortex-M4 32-bit CPU can be controlled by any MCU via simple Hex Instruction through the UART port. STONE TFT LCD module consists of a CPU, TFT drives, flash memory, UART port, power supply, etc. STONE also provides a basic control program and powerful design software (STONE TOOL Box).

This PCB primarily connects the micro:bit to an SPI 5110 LCD, but it also has connections for external power, I2C, 3 analog inputs, and an SPI QWERTY keyboard. It includes a power switch and a backlight switch for the LCD. There is a footprint for a FRAM chip to augment the memory in the micro:bit, since LCD graphics and fonts will require more than what is available in the stock micro:bit.

The software is going to change significantly because right now the LCD font takes up most of the memory. This will be off-loaded either to the keyboard module (PSoC4) or the FRAM chip, hopefully leaving sufficient room for Bluetooth communications software.

Here is an illustration of what the micro:bit TXTR will look like, in case you missed Blog 3. The area between the displays and the keyboard will be occupied by the keyboard microcontroller (a PSoC 4). In the final design this area is minimized by overlapping the two circuit boards:

I found the BBC micro:bit and the Foundation while I was wandering about the STEM Villiage area in BETT show 2017.  Simply as they are in the same area of our booth.

Before then, the story of micro:bit has already been wildly known in the maker community here in China. It targets to give out 1 million devices to encourage the next generation to code, create and feel the technology at an early stage of their life. To see it with your own eyes and feel the vibe of playing with the actual gadget is totally another thing.

The only microbit that we were able to bring back to the hotel room was so welcomed by our engineers that a real “maker kid” like me would have a great deal of trouble in getting my hands on trying it out. “Wow the experience of getting started is really easy and hassle free.” ”You can totally feel the efforts made by its developers.” “With this low price and joyful experience it would surely become a blast in classrooms…And of course the ones who always hesitate to play with coding and electronics, just like you;)” Well, yeah, that’s me. Though being in DFRobot, a maker company that comes with 1000 electronic products, for over 2 years, I have always feared to even plug the power and light up an LED on a single Arduino board…The wires, the codes, the sensors…I just, can’t.

That night, with the help of micro:bit and encouragement from our engineer, I stepped out to awaken my creativity and curiosity towards technology. “This is awesome!” ”HAHAAA, see what I create on the LED display !!” I couldn’t have ever imagined that getting to play with a device that requires coding could be that smooth and easy, and…This moment has kept me waiting for too long.

I wouldn’t dare to say that night changed my life, or the world would have another super women of technology, but it surely did change the old stereotyped view of “Tech is complex and mysterious, not us with a law/finance background would ever make it work.”  That’s why I would love to be the bridge of bring micro:bit to China and gather all the friends in helping us achieving that ASAP.

After years of professional business training or practicing, I have almost lost my ability to build, to make or learn by doing so.  Perhaps I was just being lazy or afraid.  Being honest, if not the DF Online Maker Community has crowned me with the title of “micro:bit ambassador ”, which is not only an honor but also a responsibility, I would be lazy enough to get hold of a keyboard even to tell this story.

“Don"t let fear stand in the way of your dreams”.  Like the following impressive project, made by a teacher in a rural area teacher Hu Jiayou, who is an active member in the Community, has shown great resilience in bring micro:bit to a different teaching environment.

When I was in BETT, I was lucky enough to be able to talk to the Micro:bit foundation. They have delivered a very impressive message to me, that the Micro:bit foundation, their one and only mission is to get micro:bit to as many children as possible, to let them touch and feel the joy of learning digital, and to expand their vision to be able to have different future at very early stage. That actually brought me into thinking that the education in China is quite different from the coast area to the rural area. Even in a city like Shanghai, only the kid form very well educated family will have chance to access the maker culture or education.

With micro:bit, a such easy to use device, we would able to let the students form vast rural areas can also benefit from the scientific and technological progress. That is also the reason why we devoting our effort to organize this DF maker community and micro: bit hardware drifting activity, to get more students and teachers in rural area to know and use BBC micro: bit to enpower their creation. Let them see how the technology is evolving nowadays and how they can contribute their knowledge and perspective into the future.

In general, with the advantages of simply programming, well compatibility, low power consumption and powerful. I think micro:bit is well suited for primary and secondary school students. The expansion board develops more function for micro:bit.