Most of the cheapies have a 5×8 character display, which looks blocky but legible when you have an appropriate font. Where it gets fun is that most of the LCD displays also let you upload custom ...

Displaying Custom Characters on 16X2 LCD. Generating custom characters on LCD is not very hard. It requires knowledge about the custom-generated random access memory (CG-RAM) of the LCD and the LCD ...

Instead, [Nakul] is using the ubiquitous Hitachi HD44780 character LCD display. Normally these are used to display text, but they all have the ability to display custom 5 by 8 pixel characters.

Create custom LCD character with 5 pixel horizontal (cols), 8 pixel vertical (rows). Each row is represented by a byte with 5 bits. Create DEC, HEX and BIN arrays. Save / open the character to / from ...

LCD Custom Character Generator"," Support character lcd and create code for Arduino ...

Here 5 and 8 represents the 5X8 character sets as our LCD has 20x4 characters and each character is made up of 5x8 pixel matrics. Usually, 8x10 or 5x8 pixel matrix is used to represent all the ...