[Prashant Mohta] got hold of a Raspberry Pi, a 16×2 LCD display and got down to writing a simple game in Python. Pretty soon, he realized that it was cumbersome to have the Ras-Pi and LCD ...

For example, a standard LCD requires over ten connections. (Image source: SunFounder). We will be using Python to program the LCD. (Image source: https://www.python.org). (Image source: DuPont).

We will connect the LCD to GPIO (General Purpose Input Output) pins of PI to display characters on it. We will write a program in PYTHON to send the appropriate commands to the LCD through GPIO and ...

It assumes the user has the LCD 1602 with LIRC compatible infrared receiver. You can also launch the Python based application from /etc/init.d. In that mode, you can launch right into the application ...

It is also assumed that you have access to your pi either through terminal windows or through other application through which you can write and execute python programs and use the terminal window.