Lesson 18 LCD Display

Introduction

In this lesson, you will learn how to connect an LCD Display to Arduino UNO
R3 and display what we type.

In addition, with the Potentiometer we can control the brightness of the screen.

Hardware Required

 1 * RexQualis UNO R3

 1 * LCD1602 module

 1 * Potentiometer (10k)

 1 * Breadboard

 16* M-M Jumper Wires

Principle

LCD1602

The lcd display has 16 pins and the first one from left to right is the Ground pin.
The second pin is the VCC which we connect the 5 volts pin on the Arduino
Board. Next is the Vo pin on which we can attach a potentiometer for
controlling the contrast of the display.

Next, The RS pin or register select pin is used for selecting whether we will
send commands or data to the LCD. For example if the RS pin is set on low
state or zero volts, then we are sending commands to the LCD like: set the
cursor to a specific location, clear the display, turn off the display and so on.
And when RS pin is set on High state or 5 volts we are sending data or
characters to the LCD.
Code interpretation

//LCD RS pin to digital pin 12

//LCD Enable pin to digital pin 2

//LCD D0 pin to digital pin 3

//LCD D1 pin to digital pin 4

//LCD D2 pin to digital pin 5

//LCD D3 pin to digital pin 6

//LCD D4 pin to digital pin 7

//LCD D5 pin to digital pin 8

//LCD D6 pin to digital pin 9

//LCD D7 pin to digital pin 10

//LCD R/W pin to digital pin 11

//LCD VSS pin to ground

//LCD VCC pin to 5V

//LCD K pin to ground

//LCD A pin to 5V

//LCD V0 pin to 10K resistor:

//ends to +5V and ground

int DI = 12;

int RW = 11;

int DB[] = {3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10};//Use an array to define the pins

int Enable = 2;

void LcdCommandWrite(int value) {

// Define all pins

int i = 0;

for (i=DB[0]; i <= DI; i++) //Assignment

digitalWrite(i,value & 01);//Because 1602 LCD signal

identification is D7-D0 (not D0-D7), here is used to invert the
signal.

value >>= 1;

digitalWrite(Enable,LOW);

delayMicroseconds(1);

digitalWrite(Enable,HIGH);
 delayMicroseconds(1);

digitalWrite(Enable,LOW);

delayMicroseconds(1);

void LcdDataWrite(int value) {

// Define all pins

int i = 0;

digitalWrite(DI, HIGH);

digitalWrite(RW, LOW);

for (i=DB[0]; i <= DB[7]; i++) {

digitalWrite(i,value & 01);

value >>= 1;

digitalWrite(Enable,LOW);

delayMicroseconds(1);

digitalWrite(Enable,HIGH);

delayMicroseconds(1);

digitalWrite(Enable,LOW);

delayMicroseconds(1);

void setup (void) {

int i = 0;
for (i=Enable; i <= DI; i++) {

pinMode(i,OUTPUT);

delay(100);

// Initialize the LCD

LcdCommandWrite(0x38); // Set to 8-bit interface, 2 lines

display, 5x7 text size

delay(64);

LcdCommandWrite(0x38); // Set to 8-bit interface, 2 lines

display, 5x7 text size

delay(50);

LcdCommandWrite(0x38); // Set to 8-bit interface, 2 lines

display, 5x7 text size

delay(20);

LcdCommandWrite(0x06); // Input method setting

// Auto increment, no shift is displayed

delay(20);

LcdCommandWrite(0x0E); // display setting

// Turn on the display, the cursor

shows, no flicker

delay(20);

LcdCommandWrite(0x01); // The screen is empty and the cursor

position is zeroed

delay(100);
 LcdCommandWrite(0x80); // display setting

//Turn on the display, the cursor shows, no flicker

delay(20);

void loop (void) {

LcdCommandWrite(0x01); // The screen is empty and the cursor

position is zeroed

delay(10);

LcdCommandWrite(0x80+3);

delay(10);

// Write information

LcdDataWrite('W');

LcdDataWrite('e');

LcdDataWrite('l');

LcdDataWrite('c');

LcdDataWrite('o');

LcdDataWrite('m');

LcdDataWrite('e');

LcdDataWrite(' ');

LcdDataWrite('t');

LcdDataWrite('o');

delay(10);

LcdCommandWrite(0xc0+3); // Define the cursor position as the

third position of the second line

delay(10);

LcdDataWrite('R');

LcdDataWrite('e');

LcdDataWrite('x');

LcdDataWrite('q');

LcdDataWrite('u');

LcdDataWrite('a');

LcdDataWrite('l');

LcdDataWrite('i');

LcdDataWrite('s');

delay(5000);

LcdCommandWrite(0x01); // The screen is empty and the cursor

position is zeroed

delay(10);

LcdCommandWrite(0x80+2); //Define the cursor position as the

second position of the first line

delay(10);

LcdDataWrite('M');

LcdDataWrite('a');

LcdDataWrite('k');

LcdDataWrite('e');

LcdDataWrite(' ');
 LcdDataWrite('S');

LcdDataWrite('c');

LcdDataWrite('i');

LcdDataWrite('e');

LcdDataWrite('n');

LcdDataWrite('c');

LcdDataWrite('e');

delay(10);

LcdCommandWrite(0xc0+6); // Define the cursor position as the

sixth position of the second line

delay(10);

LcdDataWrite('F');

LcdDataWrite('u');

LcdDataWrite('n');

delay(5000);

LcdCommandWrite(0x01); // The screen is empty and the cursor

position is zeroed

delay(10);

LcdCommandWrite(0x80+2); //Define the cursor position as the

second position of the first line

delay(10);

LcdDataWrite('M');

LcdDataWrite('a');
 LcdDataWrite('k');

LcdDataWrite('e');

LcdDataWrite(' ');

LcdDataWrite('S');

LcdDataWrite('c');

LcdDataWrite('i');

LcdDataWrite('e');

LcdDataWrite('n');

LcdDataWrite('c');

LcdDataWrite('e');

delay(10);

LcdCommandWrite(0xc0+4); // Define the cursor position as the

fourth position of the second line

delay(10);

LcdDataWrite('P');

LcdDataWrite('o');

LcdDataWrite('p');

LcdDataWrite('u');

LcdDataWrite('l');

LcdDataWrite('a');

LcdDataWrite('r');

delay(5000);

}
Experimental Procedures

Step 1:Build the circuit

Schematic Diagram

Step 2: Open the code:LCD_Display_Code

Step 3: Attach Arduino UNO R3 board to your computer via
USB cable and check that the 'Board Type' and 'Serial Port' are
set correctly.

Step 4: Upload the code to the RexQualis UNO R3 board.

Then, you can see on the LCD Display that we have just
entered the text "Welcome to, Rexqualis……",and you can
adjust the brightness of the screen with the Potentiometer.

If it isn’t working, make sure you have assembled the circuit

correctly, verified and uploaded the code to your board. For
how to upload the code and install the library, check Lesson 0
Preface.