/* LiquidCrystal Library - Serial Input Demonstrates the use a 16x2 LCD display. The LiquidCrystal library works with all LCD displays that are compatible with the Hitachi HD44780 driver. There are many of them out there, and you can usually tell them by the 16-pin interface. This sketch displays text sent over the serial port (e.g. from the Serial Monitor) on an attached LCD. The circuit: ================================= LCD pin Connect to --------------------------------- 01 - GND GND, pot 02 - VCC +5V, pot 03 - Contrast Pot wiper 04 - RS Pin8 (P2.0) 05 - R/W GND 06 - EN Pin9 (P2.1) 07 - DB0 GND 08 - DB1 GND 09 - DB2 GND 10 - DB3 GND 11 - DB4 Pin10 (P2.2) 12 - DB5 Pin11 (P2.3) 13 - DB6 Pin12 (P2.4) 14 - DB7 Pin13 (P2.5) 15 - BL+ +5V 16 - BL- GND ================================= The circuit: * LCD RS pin to digital pin 12 * LCD Enable pin to digital pin 11 * LCD D4 pin to digital pin 5 * LCD D5 pin to digital pin 4 * LCD D6 pin to digital pin 3 * LCD D7 pin to digital pin 2 * LCD R/W pin to ground * 10K resistor: * ends to +5V and ground * wiper to LCD VO pin (pin 3) Library originally added 18 Apr 2008 by David A. Mellis library modified 5 Jul 2009 by Limor Fried (http://www.ladyada.net) example added 9 Jul 2009 by Tom Igoe modified 22 Nov 2010 by Tom Igoe This example code is in the public domain. http://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/LiquidCrystal */ // include the library code: #include // initialize the library with the numbers of the interface pins LiquidCrystal lcd(P2_0, P2_1, P2_2, P2_3, P2_4, P2_5); void setup(){ // set up the LCD's number of columns and rows: lcd.begin(16, 2); // initialize the serial communications: Serial.begin(9600); } void loop() { // when characters arrive over the serial port... if (Serial.available()) { // wait a bit for the entire message to arrive delay(100); // clear the screen lcd.clear(); // read all the available characters while (Serial.available() > 0) { // display each character to the LCD lcd.write(Serial.read()); } } }