A small LCD screen can be extremely ... to spice them up a little bit with custom characters and create animations, like [Fabien] did with his animated Arduino progress bar.

Where it gets fun is that most of the LCD displays also let you upload custom characters ... and also that as good as the Arduino platform is at getting beginners into coding, it doesn’t ...

This allows connection to your Arduino (or other microcontroller) using only four channels. Yippee! Hitachi’s HD44780 based 16×2 character LCD are very cheap and widely available, and is an essential ...