I have an old LCD that i salvaged from an old clock radio.
My questions regarding this display is if it is possible for me to use it on Arduino UNO, or Raspberry Pi 2 B+? The pinouts are not the same as on the 16x2 display that comes with the starter kits. I will post a photo of the display front, and also i should mention that i am VERY new to this (both forum, and the field of hobby).
Hope you can help me.
Best Regards.
"you are VERY new" = no, find yourself a well documented and supported display.
Adafruit has a great collection of displays for all types of Arduino-like hobby projects and good tutorials on how to use them.
Even for an expert, it is usually a waste time trying to salvage undocumented parts, although it might be fun to try.
You are probably right. I do have the 16x2 LCD with green backlight, I just liked the red one Better 
I think I noticed that there are a greater variety of backlight colours available from the vendors this year...
Thank you very much. This was excactly the kind of yes/No answer i was looking for:muscle:t5:
I truly Hope so. Will be looking info this tonight. 
I'm a real sucker for novel new displays, myself. But I learned to throttle my budget on that.
Hehe but they are so cool, it's hard to control sometimes 
OK, so the photo indicates that this display includes the driver IC, so it definitely would be entirely possible/ practical to drive it with an Arduino.
It uses what is on the Arduino, an "SPI" interface. The problem is, you do not know the protocol.
Much of the information is in the clock radio from which you salvaged it; if that was working, you could use an Arduino to analyse that protocol and generate code to use it for your own purpose. The radio would also tell you how to power the display. Was it working?
The other questions are - why did you remove it from the radio, and what information (letters, numbers, symbols) does it actually display?
Wow.. okay!
Well that really just lit up my interest again.
I removed it to see if the pinouts were the same as on the 16x2. Of course i wouldnt be the exact same thing, but i hoped for something like it, with a labeling of each pin that reminded me of those from the 16x2.
And yes, the radio clock was fully functional, and it was only displaying numbers. i believe that the radio was an AM/FM, and those was not shown on the display when turned on.
Right. Extreme close up photo of the display driver IC or reading the markings for us, would help. Also the flip side of the board.
I think we all know the answer to that. From experience.
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