Recent Posts

• December 20, 2010

  Programming the LCD I/O Backpack with an Arduino

  Since the workshop in the beginning of October, there has been a few requests for alternatives to the FTDI USB to TTL level UART adapters. They are a bit expensive, and many of the attendees at the workshop didn’t have one.

• November 20, 2010

  Introducing the LCD I/O Backpack

  I admit, it has been a little slow for the past couple of months here on the blog, but that doesn’t mean nothing has happened.

• August 01, 2010

  Custom LCD Characters with Arduino

  A few days ago I saw a post on Adafruits blog about an online tool by Bruno Maia to help create custom characters for use with character based LCD like the ones used in the last article.

• August 01, 2010

  4 LCD displays on 1 Arduino

  I’m planning an Arduino based project where I would like to use two of the 16x2 character based LCD displays, but at the same time, don’t want to use all the I/O pins, I need some for data input also.

• July 19, 2010

  I got my MSP430 LaunchPad