How to plug and control an Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) into a Windows machine (C#)

How to plug and control an Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) into a Windows machine

Do you wonder why you can do some neat things with a Raspberry PI and Linux and hardware, but not with your PC and Windows.

With Nusbio, you can talk to other devices from a Windows machine using any .NET languages.

In this blog I show different i2c LCDs (Liquid Crystal Display).

A regular LCD requires a lot of wires. An i2c LCD requires only 4 wires (GND, 5V, DATA LINE and CLOCK LINE). The first i2c chip supported is the PCF8574. Other chip should easy to support.

LCD 16 columns 2 rows

$26 USA Shipping Included: Nusbio Board + Liquid Crystal Display 16x2

LCD 20 columns 4 rows

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Nusbio - i2c 20x4 LCD Controlled With Some C# Code - Part I 

Nusbio - i2c 20x4 LCD Controlled With Some C# Code - Part II

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