{"id":60,"date":"2012-10-04T22:39:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T22:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/178.62.14.192\/?p=60"},"modified":"2012-10-04T22:39:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T22:39:00","slug":"connect-up-a-16x2-lcd-to-gpio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=60","title":{"rendered":"Connect up a 16&#215;2 LCD to GPIO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fritzing.org\/media\/projects\/thumbs\/header\/LCD_bb.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fritzing.org\/media\/projects\/thumbs\/header\/LCD_bb.jpg?resize=154%2C200\" width=\"154\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fritzing.org\/projects\/raspberry-pi-16x2-lcd\/\">Project \u2013 Raspberry Pi &#8211; 16&#215;2 LCD &#8211; Fritzing<\/a>: <br \/>Above is a link to my Fritzing page showing my circuit diagram for connecting a 16&#215;2 LCD module to the Raspberry Pi.<br \/>I based it on&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.raspberrypi-spy.co.uk\/2012\/07\/16x2-lcd-module-control-using-python\/\">http:\/\/www.raspberrypi-spy.co.uk\/2012\/07\/16&#215;2-lcd-module-control-using-python\/<\/a>&nbsp;but wanted to play around with the <a href=\"http:\/\/fritzing.org\/\">Fritzing software<\/a> anyway.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve now taken it apart and will re-assemble as part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/raspberrypipod.blogspot.co.uk\/search\/label\/PiPodCorder\">PiPodCorder project<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3715640409195873782-6062299302197020009?l=raspberrypipod.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>> Project \u2013 Raspberry Pi &#8211; 16&#215;2 LCD &#8211; Fritzing: Above is a link to my Fritzing page showing my circuit diagram for connecting a 16&#215;2 LCD module to the Raspberry Pi.I based it on&nbsp;http:\/\/www.raspberrypi-spy.co.uk\/2012\/07\/16&#215;2-lcd-module-control-using-python\/&nbsp;but wanted to play around with&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=60\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[50,37,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-making","category-picorder","category-raspberry-pi"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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