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Bear in mind I have not connected everything to the Arduino board (ie no pedals or switches, just the lcd), The screen turns on but no writing on it. In the modified code below, should I not at least see this:

Yes, as I say, that error has been simply copied by one "tutorial" after another, and incorporated into the I²C backpacks since it "sort of" works so people think it is OK. But it makes contrast setting more difficult and wastes half a milliamp. That may not seem much to worry about except that the LCD itself uses less than a milliamp and this would be significant it operating from a battery. The backlight of course draws 20 mA.

Not really. You will note if you tried both ways, that the contrast control is much more flexible connected this way. Instead of working only over a very narrow range at one end, it works over a much wider range - at both ends.

This is the equivalent of turning the potentiometer all the way to the ground end. In general, it will work and is OK to test if you are having problems (as you are), but generally does not provide the clearest display.

And indeed, if that is the display with no code running, the fact that you get only half a line of blocks demonstrates that the display is definitely faulty.

So the verdict is a dead display. I was a bit puzzled with your original picture and thought you had a 2004 display but of course, it is a 1602. On a 2004, the uninitialised display is "blocks" on the first and third line.

Pardon us when we ask for your actual code, but we always want to check what is in your IDE, not what the tutorial said because - it isn"t always the same.

Not sure what you are trying to articulate there, but if you are talking about the resistor in series with pin 15, that is another story. It is unnecessary with AFAIK, all of the currently available 1602 and 2004 modules since "R8" on the back of the module is "101" or 100 Ohms.

Well, it always used to be, but on the one shown in #11, "R7" is now 330 Ohms so the external resistor is even less necessary. I can"t quite see what "R8" is doing here, but it appears to add another 220 Ohms also. An extra resistor will not hurt things, it will just dim the backlight slightly and save some current.

The white boxes fade in and out on the screen with absolutely no change to the potentiometer. I have soldered new legs to the pot and I am very confident in it"s connection now. I tested the pot to make sure it was working right and according to a multi-meter and fading a led it works perfectly. I tried plugging the voltage legs both into negative like I was suggested, however, then it did not work at all.

I am 99.9% sure I am wired up as I should be, but obviously not. This is a brand new LCD; but with the top and bottom rows lighting up at the same time and only half of the boxes appearing according to everything I have seen that"s not a great sign.

If there are any other tests I can run to confirm whether my LCD is good or not I"d appreciate links or the instructions to do so. At this point in time if my LCD isn"t bad I am completely stumped.

i think i"m doing something wrong but i don"t know what and, in case this is right, i don"t know how to understand if the LCD doesn"t work as it should.

Many newer LCD displays require a few volts NEGATIVE on the VEE (contrast) pin to work. The typical contrast pot across 5v and ground no longer works.

To test if this is the case, take two ordinary alkaline cells ("batteries") in series to make a 3 volt supply. Then connect the positive end to Arduino ground and the negative end to the LCD VEE pin through a 100 ohm protective resistor.

If the display begins to work, you"ve found the problem. The contrast may be too low or too high, but the -3 volt test will at least prove to you if you have this problem.

So, now what? You need a negative voltage supply. No problem. See the attached circuit. Note that you can adjust the negative voltage output of this circuit by changing the analogWrite() value sent. Only 0 through 127 works, however, because 128 through 255 are the same waveform (as far as the negative generator circuit is concerned).

The LCD 16x2 are often setup to operate at 4-bit mode to save the number of GPIO pins required for interfacing with the LCD. For some reason, you seems to want to use 8-bit mode and choose to explicitly set the mode by your class instantiation. In this case, the function prototype according to the library source code would be:

Noticed that the first argument in the class instantiation specify whether you"d want to setup the display to operate at 4-bit mode or 8-bit mode, so if you want to use the 8-bit mode, the instantiation should be:

If you’ve ever tried to connect an LCD display to an Arduino, you might have noticed that it consumes a lot of pins on the Arduino. Even in 4-bit mode, the Arduino still requires a total of seven connections – which is half of the Arduino’s available digital I/O pins.

The solution is to use an I2C LCD display. It consumes only two I/O pins that are not even part of the set of digital I/O pins and can be shared with other I2C devices as well.

True to their name, these LCDs are ideal for displaying only text/characters. A 16×2 character LCD, for example, has an LED backlight and can display 32 ASCII characters in two rows of 16 characters each.

If you look closely you can see tiny rectangles for each character on the display and the pixels that make up a character. Each of these rectangles is a grid of 5×8 pixels.

At the heart of the adapter is an 8-bit I/O expander chip – PCF8574. This chip converts the I2C data from an Arduino into the parallel data required for an LCD display.

If you are using multiple devices on the same I2C bus, you may need to set a different I2C address for the LCD adapter so that it does not conflict with another I2C device.

An important point here is that several companies manufacture the same PCF8574 chip, Texas Instruments and NXP Semiconductors, to name a few. And the I2C address of your LCD depends on the chip manufacturer.

So your LCD probably has a default I2C address 0x27Hex or 0x3FHex. However it is recommended that you find out the actual I2C address of the LCD before using it.

Connecting an I2C LCD is much easier than connecting a standard LCD. You only need to connect 4 pins instead of 12. Start by connecting the VCC pin to the 5V output on the Arduino and GND to ground.

Now we are left with the pins which are used for I2C communication. Note that each Arduino board has different I2C pins that must be connected accordingly. On Arduino boards with the R3 layout, the SDA (data line) and SCL (clock line) are on the pin headers close to the AREF pin. They are also known as A5 (SCL) and A4 (SDA).

After wiring up the LCD you’ll need to adjust the contrast of the display. On the I2C module you will find a potentiometer that you can rotate with a small screwdriver.

Plug in the Arduino’s USB connector to power the LCD. You will see the backlight lit up. Now as you turn the knob on the potentiometer, you will start to see the first row of rectangles. If that happens, Congratulations! Your LCD is working fine.

To drive an I2C LCD you must first install a library called LiquidCrystal_I2C. This library is an enhanced version of the LiquidCrystal library that comes with your Arduino IDE.

The I2C address of your LCD depends on the manufacturer, as mentioned earlier. If your LCD has a Texas Instruments’ PCF8574 chip, its default I2C address is 0x27Hex. If your LCD has NXP Semiconductors’ PCF8574 chip, its default I2C address is 0x3FHex.

So your LCD probably has I2C address 0x27Hex or 0x3FHex. However it is recommended that you find out the actual I2C address of the LCD before using it. Luckily there’s an easy way to do this, thanks to the Nick Gammon.

But, before you proceed to upload the sketch, you need to make a small change to make it work for you. You must pass the I2C address of your LCD and the dimensions of the display to the constructor of the LiquidCrystal_I2C class. If you are using a 16×2 character LCD, pass the 16 and 2; If you’re using a 20×4 LCD, pass 20 and 4. You got the point!

First of all an object of LiquidCrystal_I2C class is created. This object takes three parameters LiquidCrystal_I2C(address, columns, rows). This is where you need to enter the address you found earlier, and the dimensions of the display.

In ‘setup’ we call three functions. The first function is init(). It initializes the LCD object. The second function is clear(). This clears the LCD screen and moves the cursor to the top left corner. And third, the backlight() function turns on the LCD backlight.

After that we set the cursor position to the third column of the first row by calling the function lcd.setCursor(2, 0). The cursor position specifies the location where you want the new text to be displayed on the LCD. The upper left corner is assumed to be col=0, row=0.

There are some useful functions you can use with LiquidCrystal_I2C objects. Some of them are listed below:lcd.home() function is used to position the cursor in the upper-left of the LCD without clearing the display.

lcd.scrollDisplayRight() function scrolls the contents of the display one space to the right. If you want the text to scroll continuously, you have to use this function inside a for loop.

lcd.scrollDisplayLeft() function scrolls the contents of the display one space to the left. Similar to above function, use this inside a for loop for continuous scrolling.

If you find the characters on the display dull and boring, you can create your own custom characters (glyphs) and symbols for your LCD. They are extremely useful when you want to display a character that is not part of the standard ASCII character set.

CGROM is used to store all permanent fonts that are displayed using their ASCII codes. For example, if we send 0x41 to the LCD, the letter ‘A’ will be printed on the display.

CGRAM is another memory used to store user defined characters. This RAM is limited to 64 bytes. For a 5×8 pixel based LCD, only 8 user-defined characters can be stored in CGRAM. And for 5×10 pixel based LCD only 4 user-defined characters can be stored.

Creating custom characters has never been easier! We have created a small application called Custom Character Generator. Can you see the blue grid below? You can click on any 5×8 pixel to set/clear that particular pixel. And as you click, the code for the character is generated next to the grid. This code can be used directly in your Arduino sketch.

After the library is included and the LCD object is created, custom character arrays are defined. The array consists of 8 bytes, each byte representing a row of a 5×8 LED matrix. In this sketch, eight custom characters have been created.

It seems as if the Arduino simply does not restart the Sketch and stays idle, while giving the LCD a weird output. When we open the Serial Monitor, in the Arduino IDE, the Arduino reboots and the correct information shows up again. Pressing the reset button on the Arduino itself did not work and seems to do nothing.

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Depending on manufacturers, the I2C address of LCD may be different. Usually, the default I2C address of LCD is 0x27 or 0x3F. Try these values one by one. If you still failed, run this I2C scanner code to find the correct I2C address.

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This stems from the fact that the LCD controller itself does not inherently support the function and in fact treats the ASCII codes for and as displayable characters instead of control codes.

The fact that the LiquidCrystal library inherits from Print class and thus permits the use of println() essentially makes things worse. Instead of barfing and spitting out an error message it just happily displays two unrelated characters on the screen and the uninitiated have no idea of the cause.

In my opinion the basic LiquidCrystal library should concentrate on implementing all of the capabilities of the LCD controller and no more. If people want a library that more closely emulates a CRT (or LCD) terminal that is fine, but I think it should be done in a different library.

The LCDduino board enables users to create many applications/projects that require a 16×2 LCD display and Arduino. The board has the exact size of 16×2 LCD and can be installed on the backside of the LCD. This is a low-cost solution that has onboard Arduino + LCD so no extra Arduino Nano or Arduino board is required. The Arduino compatible hardware includes onboard programming and boot-loader connectors, Atmega328 microcontroller, and 16×2 LCD interface. Each Arduino I/O Pin including the VCC and GND is exposed to the connectors for easy connection with sensors and other devices. The board enables the easy interface of many devices and sensors. The operating power supply is 7 to 15V DC.

After the board assembly, the brand new Atmega328 microcontroller requires burning the bootloader before it can be programmed using Arduino IDE. Refer to the connection diagram and follow the links below to learn more about bootloader and Arduino IDE programming.

Arduino example code is provided below to test the project. This code will help you to convert this board into a 0 to 5V Voltmeter. Just connect the DC source at analog in A0 to measure the DC voltage.