The project is built around a VFM202MDA vacuum fluorescent display, which provides that ... in much the same way as the familiar HD44780 character LCD driver chip. With some minor tweaks, the ...

The 16×2 LCD display is a classic in the microcontroller ... two rows of 16 characters each lies in the eight custom characters the display allows to be added to its preprogrammed character ...

For details about how liquid crystals work, see LCD subpixels for color screens and seven-segment display for monochrome. Passive displays are widely used with segmented digits and characters for ...