Introduction
Interesting projects from a YouTube video. See the video Raspberry Pi Pico LCD Projects.
Code, wiring diagrams, and more can be found
HERE
Project #1
Do the first project on the video. (Use your own text.)
Perhaps the second project also?
Project #2
Create an interactive program on your workstation that can send and receive messages to and from the Pico. (menu? GUI?)
Create a program to run on the Pico that can send and receive messages to and from your workstation.
The messages are commands that:
- display text on the LDC
- send requested data from the Pico to the workstation
- other commands based on the LCD's capability (if any)
- clear the LDC display?
- scroll the text message?
- clear the screen?
- change font/background color?
- insert text in the middle of the LCD?
- ...
Note: You will need to define a command/message protocol to communicate between your workstation and the Pico. (For example, a character that indicates the start of a message and another to indicate the end of a message?)
Links
Thonny - Python IDE for beginnersLCD 16×2 Pinout, Commands, and Displaying Custom Characters