LCD(16x2) Interfacing With Arduino Using 3 Pins

To interface 16x2 LCD six pins are needed.To save your arduino pins and easy interface of LCD 3 pin LCD interface board is needed.The board is available in cheap price at market.This board uses ic 74HC595N. Which is Shift Register that receive data serially and out the received data parallel at the output pins.So this logic is used to interface LCD using 3 Pins

• Arduino Uno
• 3 pin LCD Board

If you don't have 3 Pin LCD Board click on below link to know how to make it

Interfacing LCD Using IC 74HC595N

• 16 x 2 LCD Display

In order to program ARDUINO. You need to have Arduino IDE installed in your computer.This Software is available in internet.Which is an open Source.

To use your 3 PIN interface Board .You need to Update the ARDUINO LiquidCrystal libraries.Which is located at the following location

Local Disk(C)-->Program Files-->Arduino-->libraries-->LiquidCrystal.

Open the LiquidCrystal folder and there are some files inside that folder.Cut and paste these files Some where on your pc. Because you need to use these files when you interface LCD using BreadBoard Method.

Now Download and Extract the following libraries.Which is an updated Liquid Crystal libraries to use 3 Pin LCD Board.Copy the extracted files and paste it in the following Location

Local Disk(C)-->Program Files-->Arduino-->libraries-->LiquidCrystal.

Note: open the folder of Liquid Crystal and paste it.

Now you have updated your Arduino Liquid Crystal libraries

#include <wire.h>

#include <LiquidCrystal_SR.h>

// Defining LCD and Pins for interfacing.

LiquidCrystal_SR lcd(6, 5, 9);

// Pin 6 - Data Enable/ SER, Pin 5 - Clock/SCL,Pin 9 -SCK

void setup(){
lcd.begin(16,2); // Initializing LCD

lcd.home (); // Setting Cursor at Home i.e. 0,0

}

void loop(){
lcd.print("3 Pin LCD"); // Print Something on LCD

delay(2000); // Waiting for a while

lcd.clear(); // Clearing LCD

lcd.print("INSTRUCTABLES");

lcd.setCursor(0, 1); // Setting cursor to column first and second row.

lcd.print("");

delay(2000);

lcd.clear();

}