{"id":14,"date":"2013-03-09T21:02:53","date_gmt":"2013-03-09T21:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/giggingarduino.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/09\/201339user-interface-idea-one"},"modified":"2013-03-09T21:02:53","modified_gmt":"2013-03-09T21:02:53","slug":"201339user-interface-idea-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrgadget.nexus\/giggingarduino\/2013\/03\/09\/201339user-interface-idea-one\/","title":{"rendered":"User Interface, Idea One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On reading through the Arduino site, I noticed there was a library called LiquidCrystal to easily control LCD text screens. There were even examples.<\/p>\n<p>So I looked on RS Components site, and as I recall I quite liked <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.rs-online.com\/web\/p\/lcd-monochrome-displays\/5326818\/\" target=\"_blank\">this one<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mrgadget.nexus\/giggingarduino\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/02\/72bb4-r5326818-99.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I thought I&#8217;d get that, put some buttons around it for control (maybe using left &amp; right sides of the bottom two lines to show the current button operations) and job be done.<\/p>\n<p>When I was looking at buttons and trying to work out sizes I realised how small the display was, and so looked more at character size rather than a 4-line display, and thought about <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.rs-online.com\/web\/p\/lcd-monochrome-displays\/5326650\/\" target=\"_blank\">this one instead<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mrgadget.nexus\/giggingarduino\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/02\/28081-r532638-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I thought I might end up having more &#8220;hard coded&#8221; buttons though rather than have part of the display be instructional.<\/p>\n<p>Then came another idea when I was browsing the RS Components site and finding out about some 3rd party libraries for Arduino&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>B.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On reading through the Arduino site, I noticed there was a library called LiquidCrystal to easily control LCD text screens. There were even examples. So I looked on RS Components site, and as I recall I quite liked this one. I thought I&#8217;d get that, put some buttons around it for control (maybe using left [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","hide_page_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrgadget.nexus\/giggingarduino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrgadget.nexus\/giggingarduino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrgadget.nexus\/giggingarduino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrgadget.nexus\/giggingarduino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrgadget.nexus\/giggingarduino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mrgadget.nexus\/giggingarduino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrgadget.nexus\/giggingarduino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrgadget.nexus\/giggingarduino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrgadget.nexus\/giggingarduino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}