These days, you could be forgiven for thinking driving an LCD from a microcontroller is easy. Cheap displays have proliferated, ready to go on breakout boards with controllers already baked in. Load ...

My idea for manually setting a 16bit number using two potentiometers worked technically, but was not the brilliant method I had vaingloriously imagined 🙁 Not in summary, read on…. Note: scroll down ...

I cannot get over how easy it is to get code running on an Arduino, allowing me to write the code to try to connect to a 20 character x 4 line LCD (wearing an I2C-to-parallel ‘backpack). Update: Part3 ...

Hi, I'm Bill. I'm a software developer with a passion for making and electronics. I do a lot of things and here is where I document my learning in order to be able to inspire other people to make ...