RGB Liquid Crystal Display Tutorial

By Jake Spurlock
Category: Arduino, Electronics
Time Required: 20-30 minutes
Difficulty: Easy

This is something that almost every maker that is interested in easy electronics should know how to do. It is great for decorating or just experimenting for starters.

I am doing this tutorial because I had bought an RGB display from the Maker Shed and it was hard to track down the instructions. First I will teach you how to connect it to the Arduino and then I will show you the code required.

This isn’t my very own tutorial; I am just making the information easily accessible for everyone.

Steps

Step #1:

We will start off by gathering all of the parts together. Then open the package. Inside, you will find the display, contrast pot, and header pins. Solder the header pins on the same side that I did.

Conclusion

You have now just set up a liquid crystal display!

6 Responses to RGB Liquid Crystal Display Tutorial

slowoodworker on March 30th, 2013 at 10:05 pm said:

Is there a way to enlarge the thumbnails? None of the images are “clickable” It doesn’t help if you reference an image & a reader can’t see the details.

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- jaden on April 1st, 2013 at 7:18 am said:
  
  no i dont think there is a way to enlarge them. i think its a problem with
  the new make: projects. you could enlarge them on the old one.
  
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  Jan on April 11th, 2013 at 3:10 am said:
  
  yes, you can enlarge the thumbnails. First click the “all” button to show all project steps.
  then click on the thumbnail and it will show enlarged. I’m on firefox 19
  
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Jeff on March 31st, 2013 at 7:05 pm said:

Is soldering really required for this project

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- jaden on April 1st, 2013 at 7:21 am said:
  
  yes, soldering is required but it is very minimal. u only have to solder the
  header pins to the liquid crystal display.
  
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Albarra Harahap on May 1st, 2013 at 1:40 pm said:

Thanks for the tutorial. I am new to Arduino, then I would try adding a temperature display on my project. just so happens that I have the parts

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