20X4 Text Green/Blue LCD

Description

This is a basic 20 character by 4 line display. Utilizes the extremely common HD44780 parallel interface chipset Interface code is freely available. You will need ~11 general I/O pins to interface to this LCD screen. Includes LED backlight.

• 20 characters wide, 4 rows
• White text on blue background
• Connection port is 0.1″ pitch, single row for easy breadboarding and wiring
• Single LED backlight with a resistor included, you can power it directly from 5V. If it’s too bright for you, it can be dimmed easily with a resistor or PWM and uses much less power than LCD with EL (electroluminescent) backlights
• Can be fully controlled with only 6 digital lines!
• Built in character set supports English/Japanese text, see the HD44780 datasheet for the full character set
• Up to 8 extra characters can be created for custom glyphs or ‘foreign’ language support (like special accents)