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EEVblog #1045 - How To Drive an LCD

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Dave Jones explains the basics of driving a bare segment LCD from simple IO pins, recommended to people who have wired one up as if it were an LED display.

Watch for: why an LCD cannot be driven like an LED

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I have searched the web to understand how they worked, and I found this excellent video, EEVblog #1045 - How To Drive an LCD.

old_fool on electronics.stackexchange.com, Dec 2022. CC BY-SA.

See also this excellent EEVBlog video about how to drive an LCD using simple IO...

anon33 on electronics.stackexchange.com, Aug 2024. CC BY-SA.

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