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Tag Archives: LCD
Printing text on an LCD display using switches
There’s a YouTuber called the 8-Bit Guy who’s made a fantastic project where he gets text on an LCD display just using switches instead of a micro-controller or computer. He made his (video below) in a nice box with chunky … Continue reading
LCD colour display for micro:bit
I love displays so I couldn’t resist this £10 Waveshare colour LCD that plugs straight into the micro:bit’s edge connector. It’s small, 1.8 inches across, and with a resolution of 160×128 pixels, but just the right size to match a … Continue reading
Add a 16×2 LCD display to a micro:bit
I had one of these cheap 16 x 2 LCD display modules hanging around that I bought to go with some Arduino or Raspberry Pi project that I never finished – in fact I couldn’t get the thing to work … Continue reading
Scrolling LCD text on Arduino/Raspberry Pi
As part of my Raspberry Pi/Arduino internet radio project, I’m tinkering with getting the display to show something other than the station name and the time and date – the weather, for example. Now we’ve been having quite a lot … Continue reading
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Tagged Arduino, LCD, nanpy, Python, RaspberryPi, scolling
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Pi shall tweet unto Arduino
More work to do, but big breakthroughs with FridgeGizmo today. I got the RaspberryPi pulling London weather and random worldwide tweets and trends and displaying them on my LCD display via an Arduino Uno. I installed Apache 2, the Apache … Continue reading
Posted in Arduino, computers, hardware, internet, Raspberry Pi, Raspbian
Tagged Arduino, Fridge Gizmo, FridgeGizmo, LCD, Raspberry Pi, twitter, weather
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