Articles tagged with Display

  1. HD44780 backpack (SPI and UART)

    Even though they're quite dated now, I often quite like using "HD44780" (or compatible) LCD modules in projects I build.

    They're fairly easy to drive, inexpensive and very readily available.

    However, there are a few attributes which are less convenient:

    • They need at least 10 I/O pins to use …

  2. The Common Display Connector

    Overview

    This post is a summary of a display connector standard I defined about 10 years ago.

    I'd noticed that a lot of small SPI connected LCD modules used a fairly similar interface (Clock, Data, CS, Reset, and Register select), and thought it would be quite nice if the same …