Serial Enabled 16x2 LCD - White on Blue 5V

The serial enabled LCD allows you to control a parallel based LCD over a single-wire serial interface. Included in this product is a white on blue 16x2 LCD connected to our serial backpack. The backpack, based around a PIC16LF88, takes a TTL serial input and prints the characters it receives onto the LCD. The installed firmware allows for a number of special commands so you can clear the screen, adjust the backlight brightness, turn the display on/off, and more.

Communication with SerLCD requires 5V TTL serial at a default baud rate of 9600bps (8-N-1). You can adjust the baud to any standard rate between 2400 and 38400bps. The power, ground and RX pins are all broken out to a 3.5mm pitch screw terminal.

SerLCD has the ability to dim the backlight to conserve power if needed. There is also a potentiometer on the backpack to adjust the contrast.

Features:

• New PIC 16F688 utilizes onboard UART for greater communication accuracy
• Greater processing speed at 10MHz
• Incoming buffer stores up to 80 characters
• Backlight transistor can handle up to 1A
• Pulse width modulation of backlight allows direct control of backlight brightness and current consumption
• All surface mount design allows a backpack that is half the size of the original
• Faster boot-up time
• Boot-up display can be turned on/off  via firmware

Documents:

• SerLCD v2.5 Datasheet
• SerLCD Pin Assignment
• SerLCD v2 Schematic
• Arduino sample code
• Arduino library

Dimensions: 1.425x3.15" - 1" Thick