Arduino Tutorial 48: Connecting and Using an LCD Display

LCD Arduino
LCD connected to an Arduino.

It is often times useful to “un-tether” your arduino from your desktop PC, in order to have a system you can walk around with, and interact with the real world. One of the first steps in making this happen is to have some sort of display on your arduino project. In this lesson, we show you how to connect and program your project to be able to display simple messages on the LCD. This is a schematic diagram of how to connect the arduino to an LCD display. This will work for the LCD in the Elegoo Kit. Many LCD displays in fact share this same connection schematic.

Arduino LCD Schematic
This schematic will allow you to connect the LCD to the arduino.

The details are provided in the following video.

 

Below is the code we developed in the video.