The goal of the project is to connect a HD44780 based text LCD displays to various computers through USB since the device is an open source/open hardware. The goal of the project is to connect a ...

[Felipe Tavares] wasn’t satisfied with the boring default fonts on an HD44780-based display. And while you can play some clever tricks with user-defined characters, if you want to treat the display as ...

This project illustrates how the HD44780 LCD displays are driven by DIP switches or an ATmega8 microcontroller. This project illustrates how the HD44780 LCD displays are driven by DIP switches or an ...

This hack is a bit older, but one aspect of the setup makes it worth sharing. Shift registers are a common component to include in a project when you need to increase the number of I/O pins available.