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Projects from the first chapter of The Best of Instructables Volume 1.Home projects are some of the most accessible DIY projects. Projects from the second chapter of The Best of Instructables Volume 1.If you can follow simple instructions, operate a knife or stove without injury, or even just push microwave buttons, all you need... I/O Ports Uncensored Part 2 - Controlling LCDs (Liquid Crystal Displays) and VFDs (Vacuum Fluorescent Displays) with Parallel Port. Free source code and programming help. Before You Start If you want to understand the logic of these I/O ports and want to make a quick start to LCD you have to check out my first article. If you don't need the logic and only need a quick live work, do the circuit in part 2 and download my program to make LCD live.
Part 1 - What is an LCD and what is it for? Don't be afraid, I won't give a history lesson like every other article out there does but I want to say why we are using all these LCDs from the time when it was first invented. Let me explain what VFDs are: VFDs (Vacuum Fluorescent Displays) are also like LCDs. What are the shapes of these LCDs? Part 2 - LCD Connections, Pinout Descriptions and Circuit LCD Connections Mostly an LCD has a 14 pin connection which are D0-D7 (Data Bits), E (Enable), R/W (Read/Write), RS (Register Select), Vee or Vo (Contrast), Vdd or Vcc (+5V supply), Vss (Ground/Earth connection) so there are 8 data, 3 power and 3 control lines for a standard non-backlight LCD. Pinout Descriptions Pin 1,2,3.
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