A small LCD screen can be extremely helpful with ... like [Fabien] did with his animated Arduino progress bar. (Google Translate from French) The project started out simply enough: all [Fabien ...

[Tobie’s] part of the hack is to use an Arduino and a few buttons as the controller. It’s easy to set up and we think the breadboarded controller approximates the size and weight of an LCD ...

To link a standard 16×2 LCD directly with the microcontroller, for instance Arduino, you would need atleast 6 I/O pins to talk to the LCD. However, if you use an LCD module with I2C interface, you ...