ITEAD 1602 LCD Keypad Characters Display Shield With Arudino LCD4Bit library For Arduino Board

Model: IM120417018

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This is a very popular LCD Keypad shield for Arduino board. It can be directly plugged on the Arudino board, no soldering or fly-wiring needed, it offer the 16x2 characters display and 6 buttons for Arduino.This Shield uses Arudino LCD4Bit library.

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This is a very popular LCD Keypad shield for Arduino board. It can be directly plug onto the Arudino board, no soldering or fly-wiring needed.This Shield uses Arudino LCD4Bit library.

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Discontinued	Yes
Link Wiki	No
Version	1.1
Compatible Mainboard	Arduino Deumlanove/UNO Arduino MEGA Freeduino Iteaduino Iteaduino ADK Iteaduino BT Iteaduino MEGA 2560 Simple Cortex Seeeduino Seeduino MEGA
Board Size	83mm x 57mm
Operation Level	Digital 3.3V Digital 5V
Stackable	No
Weight	70 g

Reviews

Customer Reviews

Works well on FEZ Panda II, except for the select button Review by Famory: I have tested the board with a GHIElectronics Fez Panda II using the driver provided for their own card. It almost works without any change in the code. The screen worked perfectly as well as 5 of the buttons. Only the select button doesn't provide a value yet. Reading some Netduino forums (http://forums.netduino.com/index.php?/topic/4035-freetronics-lcd-select-keypad-problem/), it sounds like I'm not the only one to have this problem. This seems to come from the voltage that is using 3.3V instead of 5V.

I still consider it as minor as all the other functions work pretty well. It's still possible to add a separate button on A1 for example.
(Posted on 7/19/2013)
Works well Review by Stephen Davies: Works well, nice clear display.

Reasons I don't give it 5 out of 5:
1) LCD pins differ from those used in Arduino example code.
Use - LiquidCrystal lcd(8, 9, 4, 5, 6, 7);
2) LCD write pin is not connected, therefore cannot define custom characters in display.
3) Error in schematic. Pin 10 appears to control LCD backlight. (Posted on 9/4/2012)
EXCELLENT SERVICE Review by kevin: Item arrived with some damage, but the afterservice was great! (Posted on 8/23/2012)