Red on Black 16x2 LCD Display - 5V (LCD-00791)

This is a basic 16 character by 2 line display with a Black background and a Red backlight. Utilizes the extremely common HD44780 parallel interface chipset (Datasheet). Interface code is freely available. You will need ~11 general I/O pins to interface to this LCD screen. Includes red LED backlight. These modules are the thin type.

Dimensions: 3.15" x 1.425" x 0.300"

HD44780 parallel interface chipset Datasheet

GDM1602K Extended Datasheet

mbed Example

AVR Example

Character Generator