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Many of these LCD controllers differ slightly from the HD44780 controller in things like the initialization sequence, minimum delay between commands and maybe other ways I don"t know of.

try putting a 1n4148 diode between the 5V supply and the 5V of the LCD, so the LCD will get around 4.5V, that is enough for the LCD, and lowers its logical input levels enough so that it sees 3V3 logic highs as "1" reliably. The garbled letters, and blocks are due to the LCD sometimes seeing a "1" as a zero and that corrupts all communication between the PI and the LCD.

Its a well know problem when trying to drive an LCD with 3V3 levels, it actually needs minimally 3.5V when its powered with 5V (70 % of VCC = 0.7 x 5.0 = 3.5).

In the photos above the Pi is a Model B Rev 2 so should work fine with my tutorial. Random characters is usually a sign it has not been initialized correctly. Again this could be caused by intermittent connections.

I was having the same problem as the OP on my current build with an I2C back-packed LCD getting corrupted. I"d tried all kinds of things to fix the problems - changing the delays, trying different libraries, and pulling out hair with no joy in fixing it.

For anyone else with this problem, you may have what I have if you"re doing event-driven code e.g. from from a switch or rotary encoder. I was getting events triggered while the python code was trying to communicate with the LCD screen - which themselves tried to write to the LCD.

I also had the same problem with scrambled characters on my display. I found that there was a short between the data lines on the expander board where it is soldered to the display board. Once I cleaned up the messy solder, the display worked perfectly.

My code seems to work for outputting to the console, however when I try to output to the LCD, it gives some weird characters and stops. Not sure what to do as i"m not a python wiz (you"d think id be more like php, but nah lol).

If you’re working from home and have kids or a partner around, you’ve probably had them barge into your home office when you were in the middle of an important meeting. Do you wish your family would visit you at more convenient times during the work day? In this tutorial, we’ll set up a method to show your work status (busy or available or “in a meeting”) on a Raspberry Pi LCD screen you can hang outside your door.

In order to fit the wires and the LCD screen with the I2C backpack into the case, I slightly bent the pins of the I2C backpack outwards and then inserted the 4 female-to-female wires.

Optional: As a side project, I’ve included the code for a digital clock display. After running the lcd_disp.py code, in the terminal now enter python clock.py and view the current time on your LCD display.

If the time displayed on your LCD screen is incorrect, go to your Raspberry Pi Configuration (as in Step 2), Localisation tab and click “Set Timezone” to your time zone.

Code notes abouttest_messages.pyThe command mylcd.lcd_display_screen refers to the file i2c_lcd_driver.py that was included in the github package https://github.com/carolinedunn/WFH_LCD

mylcd.lcd_display_string(“Welcome to”, 1) instructs the Pi to display “Welcome to” on the first line of the LCD display. The first parameter is the text and the second parameter is the line number for the LCD screen. If your string (1st parameter) is longer than 16 characters only the first 16 characters will display on your LCD screen.

Code notes aboutstatus.pyThis Python code creates APIs that you can call from another device on your network. To test this, go to your desktop computer, type in the hostname of your Pi followed by “:5000/api/busy” (ex: http://raspberrypi:5000/api/busy) to see the LCD screen text change to “Status: Busy”

For example, if your Pi’s hostname is raspberrypi (the default hostname), enter the following URL in the browser of your desktop computer “http://raspberrypi:5000/api/away” and the LCD screen text will now read“Status: Away”

At this point, you can customize the LCD text functions to statuses that are appropriate for your purposes, making note of the API names that you may change, add, or delete.

I"m a bit of a noob to the Arduino and microcontrollers in general, but I decided to try and write a program which would show my tweets on a 16x2 LCD and scroll them across the part of the screen I am printing to. The way the setup works is as follows:

The concept of pareidolia may extend to include hidden messages in recorded music played in reverse or at higher- or lower-than-normal speeds, and hearing voices (mainly indistinct) or music, in random noise such as that produced by air conditioners or fans

Microsoft should give them something in exchange for the honor" THEY LITERALLY WERE GIVEN THE HONOR OF NOT JUST ONE BUT TWO CHARACTERS AS DLC, WHICH IS A TRAIT SHARED WITH ONLY ONE OTHER THIRD PARTY COMPANY IN THE GAME I completely believe that this is teasing the Master Cheif Collection on Switch

If it happens, it happens but if it was a Smash hint, it"s not very subtle and I would imagine Nintendo in particular would prefer it all to be under wraps as to who the last two characters could be

Not really, there aren"t limited game release slots meanwhile there are with Smash characters so to avoid potentially burning bridges with 3rd parties I think there"d be a limit of 1 character per non-Nintendo publisher per pass

ah so MGS Snake, Bayonetta, and Castlevania characters will have to leave then Master Chief in smash???? Name one game or any relation of the Halo franchise on Nintendo

Sephiroth imo was the best reveal out of any fight pass 2 characters I don"t think you"ve ever played a halo game before if you think that master chief"s moveset would be too similar to samus

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