POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES

COMPUTER ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

COEN3394 INDIVIDUAL REPORT
Format &
EXPERIMENT NO. 8 Presentation: 5% _____
TITLE: INTERFACING LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY Timeliness: 10% _____
NAME: NIKKI G. ABARCA SECTION: BS CPE 4-2 Correctness: 15%_____
DATE PERFORMED: SEPT. 18, 2018 DATE SUBMITTED: SEPT 18, 2018 Analysis &
PROFESSOR: ENGR. ROLITO L. MAHAGUAY Conclusion: 20%_____

FINAL
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ANALYSIS:

The experiment was about interfacing the LCD on the Arduino and the challenge was to make a running
message on it. To facilitate the module and the Arduino, it is also important to include the library. During
the experiment, I have observed how the functions like autoscroll and displayleft and displayright differ.
There were also other commands used in the experiment to manipulate the LCD like setcursor wherein it
will determine if the text will display on which line and part of the screen. Our group also used a
potentiometer so that we can manipulate the contrast in the LCD screen. Furthermore, when you set a certain
variable with a value of more than 16 characters on a 16x2 LCD, you will not be able to see the whole text
in it unless you use some syntaxes that commands the module to scroll it.

CONCLUSION:

After conducting the experiment, I have learned how to interface the LCD to the Arduino and display
message on the screen with the use of the built in library for the Liquid Crystal Display. I have learned that
when using setCursor multiple times in the sketch, one should not use setCursor function with the same
number of line and character because it will not produce the desired output because of the overlapping. I
also learned that there are wide variety of ways to output a message in the LCD. It can be by making an array
of text, by using strings, for loops and any other possible ways. It is important to be familiarized with the
different commands so when one is using sketch, it will be easier to utilize those kinds of functions and
syntaxes.

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