electroFUN LTD: SR LCD

Need more pins on your project to control your LCD? Do you need more MIPs on your LCD project too?

The ShiftRegister LCD (SR LCD) is fast, reliable and saves pins on your projects.

With the SR LCD you can control standard character LCDs using just 2 pins, and you can do that almost 5 times faster than what you would with standard LiquidCrystal library.

We agree that LCDs look great on projects, they are very common, and fantastic at reporting back visually. However, they need a large amount of pins to control them, plus an additional pin for the backlight. Why sacrifice their usage on your next or existing project?

This board has been developed with character LCDs in mind as a means to reduce the pin count required to drive them. For some applications it is not easy to find those additional pins and hence they are never fitted in. Additionally, driving LCDs consume extra CPU to drive them reducing the MIPS available for you application.

By freeing up to 9 pins when connecting an LCD it is possible to use them on almost any pin constraint application. By having an almost 5 times performance improvement over the standard LiquidCrystal library you can seamless integrate them on your project without any performance degradation.

For Arduino and Chipkit users we have created a library that is backward compatible with all your current applications, its fast and its reliable.

Downloads available here.

It's never been so easy to control a LCD, just connect it to two IOs and use the "New LiquidCrystal library" as you would do with the current LiquidCrystal library in the Arduino or ChipKit IDE.

You can get the SR LCD in 2 assembly options:

bare board - only the bare board will be sent.
fully assembled SR LCD - a fully assembled board with driving headers fitted.

Click here to see full board specs.

General description

AVR line

Our AVR line is an open-source Arduino-compatible project. We have thought of a line of small development boards that are fully compatible with the Arduino development environment. These boards are ideal for projects; with a small footprint but with the same performance as regular Arduinos.

The idea here is to make available the Eagle files you would need to make your own board variants and if you don't want to go through the hassle you can always order them from us.

We would also like to hear and see where these designs have gone into or any derivative work made from them. So please, keep us posted and we will share it with the community.

Licensing

While Arduino is a protected trademark, the name of our AVR line can be used freely and has an unrestricted license to use.

These boards have been inspired by the Creative-Commons 2.5 licensed Arduino reference design (please refer to the schematic file for attribution information). Boards are licensed for any use ( hobbyist, commercial, non-profit, etc.) under Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA). None of the board names are registered, but we encourage you to use it in any case and provide credit to the source.

CC3.0 requires you to maintain attribution to the people before you on the schematic, board files and any derivative work you do with them. You don't need to give attribution on the physical proucts that you might make with these files, but we would appreciate it.