Serial Enabled 16x2 LCD - Black on Green 3.3V

Product Description

Description: The serial enabled LCD allows you to control a parallel based LCD over a single-wire serial interface. Included in this product is a black on green 16x2 LCD connected to our serial backpack. The backpack, based around a PIC16LF88, takes a TTL serial input and prints the characters it receives onto the LCD. The installed firmware allows for a number of special commands so you can clear the screen, adjust the backlight brightness, turn the display on/off, and more.



Communication with SerLCD requires 3.3V TTL serial at a default baud rate of 9600bps (8-N-1). You can adjust the baud to any standard rate between 2400 and 38400bps. The power, ground and RX pins are all broken out to a 3.5mm pitch screw terminal.



SerLCD has the ability to dim the backlight to conserve power if needed. There is also a potentiometer on the backpack to adjust the contrast.



Note: Though the silkscreen may say '5V', this is a 3.3v Serial LCD. Connect to a 3.3v power source.



Features:

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  PIC 16LF88 utilizes onboard UART for greater communication accuracy


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  Greater processing speed at 10MHz


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  Incoming buffer stores up to 80 characters


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  Backlight transistor can handle up to 1A


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  Pulse width modulation of backlight allows direct control of backlight brightness and current consumption


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  All surface mount design allows a backpack that is half the size of the original


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  Faster boot-up time


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  Boot-up display can be turned on/off  via firmware

Dimensions: 1.425x3.15" - 1" Thick



Documents:

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  Schematic


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  Eagle Files


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  SerLCD v2.5 Datasheet


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  SerLCD Pin Assignment


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  We aim to educate! Please do not use our code or schematics for commercial use. SerLCD-v2.zip source code