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Chicago Electronic Distributors has become part of the PiShop family. Please place orders through PiShop.us, as we are no longer taking orders through this site. More details are in our blog!
Chicago Electronic Distributors has become part of the PiShop family. Please place orders through PiShop.us, as we are no longer taking orders through this site. More details are in our blog!

Standard HD44780 LCDs are useful for creating standalone projects.

  • 16 characters wide, 2 rows
  • White text on blue background
  • Connection port is 0.1" pitch, single row for easy breadboarding and wiring
  • Pins are documented on the back of the LCD to assist in wiring it up
  • Single LED backlight included can be dimmed easily with a resistor or PWM and uses much less power than LCD with EL (electroluminescent) backlights
  • Can be fully controlled with only 6 digital lines! (Any analog/digital pins can be used)
  • Built in character set supports English/Japanese text, see the HD44780 datasheet for the full character set
  • Up to 8 extra characters can be created for custom glyphs or 'foreign' language support
  • Comes with necessary contrast potentiometer and strip of header

For more information, check out our detailed step-by-step Arduino+LCD tutorial

 We have a datasheet that has pin-locations and more plus a HD44780 datasheet with the detailed commands for control.

Technical Details

  • Note: LCD PCB may come in blue or green.
  • PCB Dimensions: 36mm x 80.6mm x 1mm / 1.4" x 3.2" x 0.04"
  • Screen Dimensions: 24mm x 69mm / 0.9" x 2.7"
  • Height (pcb+screen): 8.4mm / 0.33"
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