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I"m drooling over Sharp Memory LCD, but they are pricey. I mean $40 is not terrible for one, but I need to get a bunch for battery powered LCD boards I"m working on

From my breadboard tests ATmega328p board w/ Nokia 5110 is using 140-170uA (depending on number of characters on display) when chip is sleeping which is not bad at all, but I want to explore all alternatives...

Alas I don"t know of a display that matches your requirements (price/power) and apart from an e-ink or memory LCD that updates vary rarely I don"t think you will ever get one to run for a year on 2x AAA batteries.

The reflective version (without backlight) of the DOGS102 might meet your requirements. According to the datasheet, the current will be 250uA for LCD and LCD-Controller (if I interpret the datasheet correctly).

The reflective version (without backlight) of the DOGS102 might meet your requirements. According to the datasheet, the current will be 250uA for LCD and LCD-Controller (if I interpret the datasheet correctly).

Alas I don"t know of a display that matches your requirements (price/power) and apart from an e-ink or memory LCD that updates vary rarely I don"t think you will ever get one to run for a year on 2x AAA batteries.

Yeah you could be right. Besides display I forgot that I need to keep radio module awake, that eats a lot of power. But how they heck do they do this with commercial temperature/humidity devices? I have one that"s been running for 2 years on single AA battery

Yeah you could be right. Besides display I forgot that I need to keep radio module awake, that eats a lot of power. But how they heck do they do this with commercial temperature/humidity devices? I have one that"s been running for 2 years on single AA battery

My commercial module only last about 6 months on 2x AAA. It would probably last longer without the LCD to display temperature/humidity and flash an LED every time it transmits (every 30 seconds). Your doing very well with yours, must have one of them plutonium batteries.

Note that these do not use the highly multiplexed display system with the bias ladder of the graphical or 1602/ 2004 devices, they are generally one pin per segment so the electronics is far more efficient.

Darn. I"ve been searching and it seems everyone in Arduinoland uses OLEDs and TFTs. I want a 1" display that I can run off of a coin battery for a year. I know they exist, I own a bunch of them. But the best thing I"ve found draws 125uA.

That"s a 2.2" display. I"m looking for a 1" display, like many of the little OLEDs you can buy on eBay for $5 or less. But with 1/500th the power consumption. My $10 wristwatch has a display like that.

It appears that you simply haven"t weighed up the real issues. If you finally get a display with 1/500th the consumption of what ever, all you get is that but, if that is what you need, the real problem isn"t the display and never was. It"s the Arduino that drives it.

I"m not planning on using an Arduino. Why would you assume that? If the display drew 20uA instead of 10mA it would still be the major consumer of current.

Fair enough. What"s an Arduino? AVR (and non-AVR) chips are also discussed in this forum. But even an official Arduino board like the Pro Mini, with the regulator isolated, is capable of drawing a very low average current.

The LCD itself will not consume much current. The datasheet of the DOGS102 mentions about 250uA (https://www.mouser.de/datasheet/2/127/dogs102-6e-6338.pdf). The LED backlight will consume 200 times higher current (40mA to 80mA).

I want to use another LCD (segmented), because it"s bigger and less expansive. I now found out, that it consumes 2.54 mA per square centimeter - for the linked LCD it would be 10uA.

Another method to extend battery life is to use a stepup converter. Assume you use a pro micro Arduino with 3.3V. So you may consider to use 2x AAA cells for your setup, which should provide 3.6V with fresh batteries. I guess it will stop working with about 2.5V or so. At this time you probably only took half of the energie of the batteries, so wouldn"t it be cool to let your device run until the two AAA are at 0.8V?

This is a thin, extremely low-power 128x64 graphic LCD display module. It has no backlight, so consumes no power illuminating the display. However, if you wanted to backlight the module, the rear polarizer is transflective, so you could add your own lighting solution there. This display is perfectly suited for hand-held or any application requiring low power consumption or a very thin display. A row of icons is shown automatically top of the display without having to be rendered. This display has an integrated controller and the tail is designed to mate with standard 18-conductor 0.5mm pitch ZIF connectors (typical would be Omron XF2L18351A/ DigiKey P/N OR754CT-ND).

A low-power display is a display that draws the lowest power possible. It is specifically designed to consume low levels of energy. These displays rely on technologies that allow the device to operate using minimal power inputs.

In recent times, there is a growing demand for low-power displays in order to lessen the stress on the environment. Another reason is customers needing wireless products without big power cables or the need for frequent charging. A low-power display is perfect when you try to improve the product"s hours of battery life by drawing the least amount of power possible. A device that uses less power to function is also cheaper to run.

LCDs were the only choice for low power until the arrival of two exciting options into the display market - E-ink display and Electrochromic display. This article will discuss these three low-power display technologies in brief and compare different features like power consumption, display quality, and more.

Reflective LCDs are prevalent in consumer electronics because of their low power consumption, ease of production, and cost-effectiveness. Low power seven segment display is widely used in calculators, digital clocks, radios, microwave ovens, and washing machines. It works by reflecting ambient light - such as natural light - from a reflective layer back to the viewer.

Electrophoretic display technology (which is used in E-ink displays) has a paper-like ultra contrast appearance that replicates the appearance of ordinary ink on paper. This display technology is popular because of its contrast, readability, thickness, low power consumption, and flexibility. It is widely used in e-readers like Amazon"s Kindle, real-time bus arrival information, electronic shelf label (ESL) segment, menu boards, etc. When the display is electrically charged, charged ink particles rise to the top of the display to create images.

Features:The electrophoretic displays are bistable, meaning they only need energy when there is a change in display. E-Ink display (a specific brand of electrophoretic displays) is the most suitable choice for low-frequency switching, i.e. if the display switches no more than approximately four times in a day.

An electrochromic display is the best low-power display technology in the market today. These ultra-low-power displays are lightweight, thin, energy-efficient, and cost-effective to produce and operate. They can also be bendable, meaning that they are easily customizable to individual business needs. As a result, these displays are widely used in logistics monitoring, consumer electronics, medical devices, smart cards, and more. Like the LCD, it works by reflecting ambient light. Using electrochromism, when a voltage is applied, the display will change color.

The electrochromic display is the most energy-efficient display technology for medium-frequency switching, i.e. if the display switches between 4-600 times a day.

In terms of display cost, electrochromic displays are among the cheapest technologies both to operate and produce - as they can be produced cheaply using roll-to-roll screen printing.

The design is highly customizable, allowing for a range of design options, including different sizes, shapes, and forms, and it can also easily incorporate a graphic overlay.

Of all the three technologies, only electrochromic displays are bendable. If you need a flexible display then, electrochromic displays are the best option for you.

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This is another great I2C 16x2 LCD display compatible with Gadgeteer modules from DFRobot. With limited pin resources, your project will quicly run out of resources using normal LCDs. With this I2C interface LCD module, you only need 2 lines (I2C)to display the information.If you already have I2C devices in your project, this LCD module actually cost no more resources at all. The adress can be set from 0x20-0x27. Fantastic for Arduino or gadgeteer based projects.

Power consumption is a critical issue for a device running continuously for a long time without being turned off. So to overcome this problem almost every controller comes with a sleep mode, which help developers to design electronic gadgets for optimal power consumption. Sleep mode puts the device in power saving mode by turning off the unused module.

Earlier we have explained Deep-sleep mode in ESP8266 for Power Saving. Today we will learn about Arduino Sleep Modes and demonstrate power consumption by using Ammeter. An Arduino Sleep mode is also referred as Arduino Power Save mode or Arduino Standby Mode.

Sleep Modes allow the user to stop or turn off the unused modules in the Microcontroller which significantly reduce the power consumption. Arduino UNO, Arduino Nano and Pro-mini comes with ATmega328P and it has a Brown-out Detector (BOD) which monitors the supply voltage at the time of sleep mode.

For entering into any of the sleep mode we need to enable the sleep bit in the Sleep Mode Control Register (SMCR.SE). Then the sleep mode select bits select the sleep mode among Idle, ADC noise reduction, Power-Down, Power-Save, Standby and External Standby.

For entering into the Idle sleep mode, write the SM[2,0] bits of the controller ‘000’. This mode stops the CPU but allow the SPI, 2-wire serial interface, USART, Watchdog, counters, analog comparator to operate. Idle mode basically stops the CLKCPU and CLKFLASH. Arduino can be waked up any time by using external or internal interrupt.

There is a libraryfor setting various low power modes in arduino. So first download and install the library from the given link and use the above code to put the Arduino in Idle Sleep Mode. By using the above code, the Arduino will go into a sleep of eight seconds and wake up automatically. As you can see in the code that the idle mode turns off all the timers, SPI, USART, and TWI (2-wire interface).

To use this sleep mode write the SM[2,0] bit to ‘001’. The mode stops the CPU but allow the ADC, external interrupt, USART, 2-wire serial interface, Watchdog, and counters to operate. ADC Noise Reduction mode basically stops the CLKCPU, CLKI/O and CLKFLASH. We can wake up the controller from the ADC Noise Reduction mode by the following methods:

Power-Down mode stops all the generated clocks and allows only the operation of asynchronous modules. It can be enabled by writing the SM[2,0] bits to ‘010’. In this mode, the external oscillator turns OFF, but the 2-wire serial interface, watchdog and external interrupt continues to operate. It can be disabled by only one of the method below:

The code is used to turn on the power-down mode. By using the above code, the Arduino will go into a sleep of eight seconds and wake up automatically.

We can also use the power-down mode with an interrupt, where the Arduino will go into sleep but only wakes up when an external or internal interrupt is provided.

To enter into the power-save mode we need to write the SM[2,0] pin to ‘011’. This sleep mode is similar to the power-down mode, only with one exception i.e. if the timer/counter is enabled, it will remain in running state even at the time of sleep. The device can be waked up by using the timer overflow.

The standby mode is identical to the Power-Down mode, the only difference in between them is the external oscillator kept running in this mode. For enabling this mode write the SM[2,0] pin to ‘110’.

This mode is similar to the power-save mode only with one exception that the oscillator is keep running. The device will enter into the Extended Standby mode when we write the SM[2,0] pin to ‘111’. The device will take six clock cycles to wake up from the extended standby mode.

Below are the requirements for this project, after connecting the circuit as per the circuit diagram. Upload the sleep mode code into Arduino using Arduino IDE. Arduino will enter into the idle sleep mode. Then check the current consumption into the USB ammeter. Else, you can also use a clamp meter for the same.

To learn more about using DHT11 with Arduino, follow the link. Here we are using USB Ammeter to measure the voltage consumed by Arduino in sleep mode.

USB ammeter is a plug and play device used to measures the voltage and current from any USB port. The dongle plugs in between the USB power supply (computer USB port) and USB device (Arduino). This device have a 0.05ohm resistor in-line with the power pin through which it measures the value of current drawn. The device comes with four seven segment display, which instantly display the values of current and voltage consumed by the attached device. These values flips in an interval of every three seconds.

In the above setup to demonstrate Arduino Deep sleep modes, the Arduino is plugged into the USB ammeter. Then the USB ammeter is plugged into the USB port of the laptop. Data pin of the DHT11 sensor is attached to the D2 pin of the Arduino.

The code start by including the library for the DHT11 sensor and the LowPower library. For downloading the Low Power library follow the link. Then we have defined the Arduino pin number to which the data pin of the DHT11 is connected and created a DHT object.

In the void setup function, we have initiated the serial communication by using serial.begin(9600),  here the 9600 is the baud rate. We are using Arduino’s built-in LED as an indicator for the sleep mode. So, we have set the pin as output, and digital write low.

Before enabling the sleep mode we are printing "Arduino: - I am going for a Nap"and making the built in LED Low. After that Arduino sleep mode is enabled by using the command mentioned below in the code.

Below code enables the idle periodic sleep mode of the Arduino and gives a sleep of eight seconds. It turns the ADC, Timers, SPI, USART, 2-wire interface into the OFF condition.

So by using this code Arduino will be only wake up for 24 seconds in a minute and will remain in sleep mode for rest of the 36 seconds, which significantly reduce the power consumed by the Arduino weather station.

The Nematic liquid crystal state is a unique state not included in the above 3 states. It is a state between the crystalline (solid) and isotropic (liquid) states. Even in the state of liquid crystals, there are several types of liquid crystal states, as below.

The cholesteric (or chiral nematic) liquid crystal phase is typically the molecules are directionally oriented and stacked in a helical pattern, with each layer rotated at a slight angle to the ones above and below it. See Fig.1.

Arduino (open-source hardware and software company, project, and user community that designs and manufactures single-board microcontrollers and microcontroller kits for building digital devices. Its hardware products are licensed under a CC BY-SA license, while software is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) or the GNU General Public License (GPL),manufacture of Arduino boards and software distribution by anyone. Arduino boards are available commercially from the official website or through authorized distributors.

Arduino board designs use a variety of microprocessors and controllers. The boards are equipped with sets of digital and analog input/output (I/O) pins that may be interfaced to various expansion boards ("shields") or breadboards (for prototyping) and other circuits. The boards feature serial communications interfaces, including Universal Serial Bus (USB) on some models, which are also used for loading programs. The microcontrollers can be programmed using the C and C++ programming languages, using a standard API which is also known as the Arduino language, inspired by the Processing language and used with a modified version of the Processing IDE. In addition to using traditional compiler toolchains, the Arduino project provides an integrated development environment (IDE) and a command line tool developed in Go.

The Arduino project began in 2005 as a tool for students at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, Italy,sensors and actuators. Common examples of such devices intended for beginner hobbyists include simple robots, thermostats and motion detectors.

The name Arduino comes from a bar in Ivrea, Italy, where some of the founders of the project used to meet. The bar was named after Arduin of Ivrea, who was the margrave of the March of Ivrea and King of Italy from 1002 to 1014.

The Arduino project was started at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea (IDII) in Ivrea, Italy.BASIC Stamp microcontroller at a cost of $50. In 2003 Hernando Barragán created the development platform Casey Reas. Casey Reas is known for co-creating, with Ben Fry, the Processing development platform. The project goal was to create simple, low cost tools for creating digital projects by non-engineers. The Wiring platform consisted of a printed circuit board (PCB) with an ATmega128 microcontroller, an IDE based on Processing and library functions to easily program the microcontroller.Arduino.

Following the completion of the platform, lighter and less expensive versions were distributed in the open-source community. It was estimated in mid-2011 that over 300,000 official Arduinos had been commercially produced,

At the end of 2008, Gianluca Martino"s company, Smart Projects, registered the Arduino trademark in Italy and kept this a secret from the other co-founders for about two years. This was revealed when the Arduino company tried to register the trademark in other areas of the world (they originally registered only in the US), and discovered that it was already registered in Italy. Negotiations with Martino and his firm to bring the trademark under control of the original Arduino company failed. In 2014, Smart Projects began refusing to pay royalties. They then appointed a new CEO, Federico Musto, who renamed the company Arduino SRL and created the website arduino.org, copying the graphics and layout of the original arduino.cc. This resulted in a rift in the Arduino development team.

At the World Maker Faire in New York on 1 October 2016, Arduino LLC co-founder and CEO Massimo Banzi and Arduino SRL CEO Federico Musto announced the merger of the two companies.

In April 2017, Wired reported that Musto had "fabricated his academic record... On his company"s website, personal LinkedIn accounts, and even on Italian business documents, Musto was, until recently, listed as holding a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In some cases, his biography also claimed an MBA from New York University." Wired reported that neither university had any record of Musto"s attendance, and Musto later admitted in an interview with Wired that he had never earned those degrees.open source licenses, schematics, and code from the Arduino website, prompting scrutiny and outcry.

By 2017 Arduino AG owned many Arduino trademarks. In July 2017 BCMI, founded by Massimo Banzi, David Cuartielles, David Mellis and Tom Igoe, acquired Arduino AG and all the Arduino trademarks. Fabio Violante is the new CEO replacing Federico Musto, who no longer works for Arduino AG.

In October 2017, Arduino announced its partnership with ARM Holdings (ARM). The announcement said, in part, "ARM recognized independence as a core value of Arduino ... without any lock-in with the ARM architecture". Arduino intends to continue to work with all technology vendors and architectures.

Under Violante"s guidance, the company started growing again and releasing new designs. The Genuino trademark was dismissed and all products were branded again with the Arduino name. As of February 2020, the Arduino community included about 30 million active users based on the IDE downloads.

In August 2018, Arduino announced its new open source command line tool (arduino-cli), which can be used as a replacement of the IDE to program the boards from a shell.

Arduino is open-source hardware. The hardware reference designs are distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 2.5 license and are available on the Arduino website. Layout and production files for some versions of the hardware are also available.

Although the hardware and software designs are freely available under copyleft licenses, the developers have requested the name Arduino to be exclusive to the official product and not be used for derived works without permission. The official policy document on use of the Arduino name emphasizes that the project is open to incorporating work by others into the official product.-duino.

An early Arduino boardRS-232 serial interface (upper left) and an Atmel ATmega8 microcontroller chip (black, lower right); the 14 digital I/O pins are at the top, the 6 analog input pins at the lower right, and the power connector at the lower left.

Most Arduino boards consist of an Atmel 8-bit AVR microcontroller (ATmega8,ATmega328, ATmega1280, or ATmega2560) with varying amounts of flash memory, pins, and features.Arduino Due, based on the Atmel SAM3X8E was introduced in 2012.shields. Multiple and possibly stacked shields may be individually addressable via an I2C serial bus. Most boards include a 5 V linear regulator and a 16 MHz crystal oscillator or ceramic resonator. Some designs, such as the LilyPad,

Arduino microcontrollers are pre-programmed with a boot loader that simplifies uploading of programs to the on-chip flash memory. The default bootloader of the Arduino Uno is the Optiboot bootloader.RS-232 logic levels and transistor–transistor logic (TTL) level signals. Current Arduino boards are programmed via Universal Serial Bus (USB), implemented using USB-to-serial adapter chips such as the FTDI FT232. Some boards, such as later-model Uno boards, substitute the FTDI chip with a separate AVR chip containing USB-to-serial firmware, which is reprogrammable via its own ICSP header. Other variants, such as the Arduino Mini and the unofficial Boarduino, use a detachable USB-to-serial adapter board or cable, Bluetooth or other methods. When used with traditional microcontroller tools, instead of the Arduino IDE, standard AVR in-system programming (ISP) programming is used.

The Arduino board exposes most of the microcontroller"s I/O pins for use by other circuits. The Diecimila,Duemilanove,Unopulse-width modulated signals, and six analog inputs, which can also be used as six digital I/O pins. These pins are on the top of the board, via female 0.1-inch (2.54 mm) headers. Several plug-in application shields are also commercially available. The Arduino Nano, and Arduino-compatible Bare Bones Boardbreadboards.

Many Arduino-compatible and Arduino-derived boards exist. Some are functionally equivalent to an Arduino and can be used interchangeably. Many enhance the basic Arduino by adding output drivers, often for use in school-level education,

Arduino and Arduino-compatible boards use printed circuit expansion boards called shields, which plug into the normally supplied Arduino pin headers.3D printing and other applications, GNSS (satellite navigation), Ethernet, liquid crystal display (LCD), or breadboarding (prototyping). Several shields can also be made do it yourself (DIY).

Some shields offer stacking headers which allows multiple shields to be stacked on top of an Arduino board. Here, a prototyping shield is stacked on two Adafruit motor shield V2s.

A program for Arduino hardware may be written in any programming language with compilers that produce binary machine code for the target processor. Atmel provides a development environment for their 8-bit AVR and 32-bit ARM Cortex-M based microcontrollers: AVR Studio (older) and Atmel Studio (newer).

The Arduino integrated development environment (IDE) is a cross-platform application (for Microsoft Windows, macOS, and Linux) that is written in the Java programming language. It originated from the IDE for the languages brace matching, and syntax highlighting, and provides simple one-click mechanisms to compile and upload programs to an Arduino board. It also contains a message area, a text console, a toolbar with buttons for common functions and a hierarchy of operation menus. The source code for the IDE is released under the GNU General Public License, version 2.

The Arduino IDE supports the languages C and C++ using special rules of code structuring. The Arduino IDE supplies a software library from the Wiring project, which provides many common input and output procedures. User-written code only requires two basic functions, for starting the sketch and the main program loop, that are compiled and linked with a program stub main() into an executable cyclic executive program with the GNU toolchain, also included with the IDE distribution. The Arduino IDE employs the program avrdude to convert the executable code into a text file in hexadecimal encoding that is loaded into the Arduino board by a loader program in the board"s firmware.

From version 1.8.12, Arduino IDE windows compiler supports only Windows 7 or newer OS. On Windows Vista or older one gets "Unrecognized Win32 application" error when trying to verify/upload program. To run IDE on older machines, users can either use version 1.8.11, or copy "arduino-builder" executable from version 11 to their current install folder as it"s independent from IDE.

setup(): This function is called once when a sketch starts after power-up or reset. It is used to initialize variables, input and output pin modes, and other libraries needed in the sketch. It is analogous to the function main().

loop(): After setup() function exits (ends), the loop() function is executed repeatedly in the main program. It controls the board until the board is powered off or is reset. It is analogous to the function while(1).

Most Arduino boards contain a light-emitting diode (LED) and a current-limiting resistor connected between pin 13 and ground, which is a convenient feature for many tests and program functions.Hello, World!, is "blink", which repeatedly blinks the on-board LED integrated into the Arduino board. This program uses the functions pinMode(), digitalWrite(), and delay(), which are provided by the internal libraries included in the IDE environment.

The open-source nature of the Arduino project has facilitated the publication of many free software libraries that other developers use to augment their projects.