HD44780 LCD hookup help.

Forum 2005-2010 (read only) Software Interfacing
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Hey all i am in need of some help hooking up my HD44780 20*4 LCD.

I currently have it wired as so on the HD44780:

Pin
1 Vss GND
2 Vcc 5V
3 Vee GND
4 RS PD4 on AVR
5 RW GND
6 E PD5 on AVR
7 DB0 not connected
8 DB1 not connected
9 DB2 not connected
10 DB3 not connected
11 DB4 PD0 on AVR
12 DB5 PD1 on AVR
13 DB6 PD2 on AVR
14 DB7 PD3 on AVR
15 A +5V with 330[ch937]
16 K GND

And this is my arduino code:

#include <LiquidCrystal.h>

// LiquidCrystal display with:
// rs on pin 4
// rw on pin 11
// enable on pin 5
// d4, d5, d6, d7 on pins 0, 1, 2, 3, 4
LiquidCrystal lcd(4, 11, 5, 0, 1, 2, 3);

void setup()
{
  // Print a message to the LCD.
  lcd.print("hello, world!");
}

void loop()
{
}

However, nothing shows up on the LCD :frowning:

What could i be doing incorrect? I never connected the rw to the arduino, just to ground.

David

2

pins 0 and 1 are used by the serial port, try using different pins

3

Alright i moved 0 and 1 to 6 and 7 but still nothing..

LiquidCrystal lcd(4, 11, 5, 6, 7, 2, 3);

David

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David

5

Ok, i got it working. I must of had a wire crossed..

Thanks for your help, mem.

David

6

As a side note, I believe the data pins are supposed to be a set of 4 sequential pins (because of "Lazy coding"). Personally, I use the LCD4Bit library since it doesn't require the RW pin and had a couple of new fun and usable functions like scrolling. Glad you got it working though.

7

I believe the data pins are supposed to be a set of 4 sequential pins (because of "Lazy coding").

The 'lazy coding' is actually in the lcd4bit library. LiquidCrystal has no such requirement

8

I was going to use that but all it displayed was Japanese-type on the lcd so i just used the example one that came with arduino software. Not sure what happened, i changed all the values in the c++ file to what worked for the arduino example code...

David