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Display HAT Mini features a bright 18-bit capable 320x240 pixel display with vibrant colours and formidable IPS viewing angles, connected via SPI. It"s got four tactile buttons for interacting with your Pi with your digits and a RGB LED for notifications. We"ve also squeezed in a QwST connector (Qwiic / STEMMA QT) and a Breakout Garden header so it"s a doddle to connect up different kinds of breakouts.

It will work with any model of Pi with a 40 pin header, but we think it goes with the Raspberry Pi Zero particularly well - we"ve included a pair of standoffs so you can use to bolt HAT and Pi together to make a sturdy little unit. To accommodate the screen Display HAT Mini is a bit bigger than a standard mini HAT or pHAT - it"s around 5mm taller than a Pi Zero (so a Mini HAT XL or a Mini HAT Pro, if you will).

Display HAT Mini lets you turn a Raspberry Pi into a convenient IoT control panel, a tiny photo frame, digital art display or gif-box, or a desktop display for news headlines, tweets, or other info from online APIs. This screen is a handy 3:2 ratio, useful for retro gaming purposes!

To get started, follow the installation instructions in the Display HAT Mini library. This library contains some examples of how to use the screen, buttons and LED with Pygame. You can also find examples for this screen in our ST7789 Python library, these show you how to write and draw on the screen using PIL to display shapes, text and gifs.

We"ve also been having fun with fbcp-ili9341 - a high level framebuffer driver for SPI-based LCD displays. The Raspberry Pi OS desktop is a leeetle small on a 2.0" screen, but this might be a good option if you"re doing something like building your own custom retro console.

If you have a Breakout Garden breakout without a Qw/ST connector, you can either pop one of these adaptors on the end of your cable, or you can plug a Breakout Extender into the header at the other end of Display HAT Mini (you can find it next to your Pi"s SD card slot).

Please note that because of Display HAT Mini"s extra size, it will overhang adjacent slots on expansion boards like pHAT Stack, Black HAT Hacker, HAT Hacker HAT and Flat HAT Hacker. No shame - every HAT is valid, every HAT is beautiful.

Note:In order to control the contrast you can adjust the voltage presented to Pin 3. This must be between 0 and 5V. We used a resistor between pin 3 of LCD to GND of PI.

In the above tutorial we saw how to display the custom message on 16 X 2 LCD using raspberry pi and python.Now we shall move on how to display the current weather info on LCD:First we will need to download the python weather api.Download thepywapilibrary using the following command on your pi.wget https://launchpad.net/python-weather-api/trunk/0.3.8/+download/pywapi-0.3.8.tar.gz

As well as connecting two devices directly together, you can process the value in between, using a custom function. GPIO Zero provides a set of commonly used tools for this kind of processing. Importing the negated function from gpiozero.tools allows you to specify that an LED should be lit when the button isn’t pressed: led.source = negated(button.values). See more source tools in the docs.

Let’s begin. First, wire up two buttons and three LEDs on a breadboard. You’ll need to import the gpiozero LED and Button classes, and the allvalues, anyvalues, and negated source tools. Create objects representing each of the LEDs and buttons, providing the pin numbers they’re wired to. The buttons represent two inputs; the LEDs three outputs. You’re going to program the first LED to represent the binary AND of the two inputs, the second to represent the OR, and the third the NAND.

To define the AND of the two buttons, you’ll need to use the allvalues function from gpiozero.tools; allvalues yields True if all of the inputs are True, which is an AND gate:

In this tutorial we"ll take you through how to connect a 16x2 LCD display up to your Raspberry Pi using GPIO pins. Being able to display a message on the LCD is not only very cool but can be pretty useful too, for example in this tutorial we"ll cover how to get your LCD display to display the IP address of your raspberry Pi.

For this exercise we are going to control the LCD display using 4-bit mode. Whilst is is possible to connect to it in other ways using I2C or the UART this is the most direct method. In order to control the display in this way will we need to use 6 pins on the GPIO port, 4 data pins and 2 control pins.

Register Select – This toggles the Lcd display between two modes, Command mode (high) and Data mode (low). Command mode gives a Instruction to the LCD. Example – “Clear the display” , “Move cursor to home” etc and Data tells the LCD to display characters.

In order for the LCD to work we will wire the circuit up in a fashion similar to the diagram above, but hold off connecting everything together for now! The list below tells you exactly what the pins on the LCD connect to:

Begin assembling the circuit by inserting the Adafruit cobbler into the breadboard. Remember to straddle the cobbler over the centre of the breadboard so that no two pin is in the same row. Next insert the LCD display into the breadboard. Connect the 5V and GND pins from the cobbler to the top of breadboard and also connect Pins 1, 2, 15 on the LCD and 16 to their respective power rails. Your circuit should look similar to the picture below:

Connect the GPIO ribbon cable from the cobbler to the Pi, if everything is working correctly the back light on the LCD should turn on like on the picture above. If it doesn"t work check everything is wired up correctly

Next wire up the potentiometer. The middle pin of the potentiometer is connected to Pin 3 on the LCD display and the other two pins are connected to ground and 5V (it doesn"t matter which way round). Check the potentiometer is working by twisting the nob until you see boxes appear in the first line of the display like in the picture below:

To get the Python code to run the LCD display we are going to "grab" it from adafruit using GitHub. Make sure your Rasp berry Pi is connected to internet and we"ll use the git command to clone the python code. Run the following commands in the terminal to download the files.

Now we can test the display is working and it is wired up correctly. One of the files we downloaded Adafruit_CharLCD.py contains python class for LCD display control. It also contains a small piece of code so when the program is run it will display a message on the LCD.

If you are using Version 2 of the Raspberry pi you will need to edit the program slightly since pin #21 has now been changed to pin #27. Open the file Adafruit_CharLCD.py with Python or use nano  Adafruit_CharLCD.py command to edit the program within the terminal. Go to line 57 of the code and replace:

Feel free to dive into the code of the program and change what"s displayed on the LCD. To do so open the program to edit like before and scroll to the last line of the code:

Simply change what is  typed in the brackets after lcd.message() to display the text you want.  The command is used to wrap the text onto a new line. A neater way of doing this is to change the last part of the program to look like the following:

This way when you run the program you will be prompted by "type your message here" to enter a message via your keyboard, which will then be displayed on the LCD. This was done by defining a new variable "message" that is equal to the command raw_input(), which allows the user to manually enter text. The part within the brackets of the raw_input() command is simply printed on the computer screen to prompt you what to write.

Getting the LCD display to display some text of your choosing is cool but not that useful. Running the program Adafruit_CharLCD_IPclock_example.py will display the date/time and the IP address of the Pi on the LCD. The program calls upon the methods from the previous program Adafruit_CharLCD.py. Feel free to open the program to look at the coding. To do so open the program in python or use the command sudo nano Adafruit_CharLCD_IPclock_example.pyin the terminal.