EDN

Alphanumeric LCD with Shift Register on Arduino – part 1

One of the limitations of the small 8 bit microcontrollers like the Atmel ATMega family adopted by the Arduino board, is the reduced number of I/O ports. Among the main advantages of these ...
EDN

Alphanumeric LCD with Shift Register on Arduino – part 2

As promised in the first part of this article, now it is time to see in detail how we can use the Alphanumeric LCD Display in our Arduino sketches. The idea beside this project is to give a simple ...
Hackaday

Optimizing AVR LCD Libraries

A while ago, [Paul Stoffregen], the creator of the Teensy family of microcontrollers dug into the most popular Arduino library for driving TFT LCDs. The Teensy isn’t an Arduino – it’s much faster – ...
Hackaday

TFT LCDs Hit Warp Speed With Teensy 3.1

[Paul Stoffregen], known as father of the Teensy, has leveraged the Teensy 3.1’s hardware to obtain some serious speed gains with SPI driven TFT LCDs. Low cost serial TFT LCDs have become commonplace ...