Basic 16x2 Character LCD - Black on Green 5V

This is a basic 16 character by 2 line display. Black text on Green background. Utilizes the extremely common HD44780 parallel interface chipset (datasheet). Interface code is freely available. You will need ~11 general I/O pins to interface to this LCD screen. Includes LED backlight.

Works on either 4 bit or 8 bit mode. For Arduino LCD library, Please refer to http://arduino.cc/en/Reference/LiquidCrystal?from=Tutorial.LCDLibrary.

Connections to Arduino:

The circuit:

• LCD RS pin to digital pin 12

• LCD Enable pin to digital pin 11

• LCD D4 pin to digital pin 5

• LCD D5 pin to digital pin 4

• LCD D6 pin to digital pin 3

• LCD D7 pin to digital pin 2

Parallel LCDs run off of +5V so you can just solder the Vcc (pin 2 in LCD)wire to 5V and the ground (pin 1 in LCD) wire to GND.

* 10K resistor:

* ends to +5V and ground

* wiper to LCD VO pin (pin 3)

How to run Arduino examples:

Documents:

GDM1602K.pdf Extended Datasheet Dimensions: 3.15" x 1.425"