Datasheets: 16x2 LCD By Hand (No microcontroller) 

“Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you've fed him for a lifetime.” This was the kind of tutorial I've always wanted. You just taught us how to fish, while tonnes of other tutorials here just gave us a fish.

This video is a highly in-depth explanation. It seems like a slow-motion version of the way the microcontroller works.

Hi Mitch... Just came across this presentation on display programming ... A pleasure to listen to. Unpretentious, honest and accurate .... engineering needs more of your style and skill.

This was very helpful and appreciated! I've been trying to find tutorials that dive into the datasheets while explaining them well and this did that perfectly!

Aaaaaannnddddd I subscribed. That was the most detailed explanation of the workings of that screen I have ever seen. And it yet again shows me why Arduino is but a stepping stone... With libraries always missing vital functions >.>

Amazing video, both keeping it relatively simple but also highlighting pitfalls/possible misunderstandings. Love it!

Great video. I have started to dabble with electronic projects and this video is a gem in itself!

This is a fantastic explanation with superb task breakdown. And it can’t be better than this.

Absolutely great ! clear, straightforward No stupid music a genuine effort to make it understandble and a great idea to single step. thanks for your efforts

Hey Mitch I like your videos so much, you have a talent for this. Keep doing it. Youll become more well known over time.

I have always looked for someone who would explain how LCDs work. Your video was the one, a job well done!

I am at this stage, where I'm almost graduating, but still a bit afraid to go through the datesheet for some reason. This was extremely helpful, especially the Enable timing diagram. I always try to avoid that part, because it looks so scary. Thank you for breaking this down to such an easy understanding :)

This is the perfect way to teach this. Turning the Enable on and off was quite confusing to me in class because it was all in code, but having everything physically on a breadboard cleared so much up. Thank you!

Thank you. I just watched three videos from your RU-vid channel, and I got a lot of information on how to work with microcontrollers.

I m a newbie to digital electronics. Was using such a display through Arduino and built in libraries. After watching this, my whole perception changed. Now I realise how much stuff goes on in the background and what actually the microcontroller is doing. Amazing video. Really grateful.

I know this is a somewhat old video but thank you so much for this video. I'm working on my senior design project which I want to use these as our UI to keep cost down but the library for the msp430 I found wasn't working and this video is allowing me to write my own drivers for it. Appreciate the time and effort to make such a high quality video.

Hi Mitch, a great Video indeed! After a couple of minutes i was playing around with breadboards, wires and a 16/2 display. It worked perfectly fine! Thanks a lot for showing the important parts of the datasheet. the next 300p doc i‘ll try to read by my own.

Thanks for the time invested to explain in so deep way. Congratulations!

Thanks for your magical explanation, we have now only one teacher on RU-vid, for crystal clear understanding.

Hi, I'm a Student from Centennial College, ON CA. I found your video in our course shell, and it is very helpful. I'm coming to thank you, and give you a thumb up.

very interesting. I have used these a few times but now I understand how they work, thanks for your effort. You are a good teacher.

This was amazing thank you so much, I have been trying to figure out what you explained in the video for days at this point.

This is some great video. Having fun while watching it. Thank you!

Wish I could like this video a million times dude your amazing

This is totally insane!!! Awesome job

A very good educational video. I’ve stumbled across this video because I was looking for the data sheets on the internet without any luck … Finally got it from the link in the description ☺️👍

Wish I had found a video like this in High School! 😂 But it's so true, if the only answer to my question is in the datasheet, I'm doing something else. Hopefully not anymore!

Hey Mitch, brand new to electronics here! This is by far the best video I have seen on learning a topic. Loved the journey and hope to learn more through exploring datasheets!

This is the video I was looking for. Thanks Mitch Davis

I'm very excited about the stm32 series... 😃

i love videoes like this. calm and relaxed i hate when people try to explain it in the minimal amount of time.

This was very helpful. In other websites, they were showing that D7 of the lcd receives the least signicant bit, but it's obviously the one that receives the most significant bit.

Thanks Mitchel, I love the low levels tutorial, where things are done by hand, and I found very useful how you explain how you read the datasheet. Indeed datasheet can be scary...

Dude, you are amazing. I have simulated this circuit in proteus and it works perfectly.

I appreciate your making this video. It's quite useful and informative. Thank you!

Personally, I love a good datasheet. Amazing video man! I absolutely believe it was not as easy as you made it look.

Thank you for the detailed and clear explanation. This is very cool!

Thank you so much for the help reading the datasheet, i now know what to look for when trying out other components!

I love how you're going through the thought process of the average beginner, Like oh RW that could mean read and write. You are single handedly reshaping the thought process of every newbie watching you.

amazing demo for reaaaaaly understanding how to run an LCD

Very interesting! You made it look easy but I definitely learned some stuff. Thanks for sharing!

Greetings from Azerbaijan and thanks for the amazing content ❤️ Keep going man.. Everytime i realize that i have much things have to learn :)

This is as low level and simple as it gets. Wonderful tutorial.

Very educational channel! Thanks for your effort!

Thank you so much for this video. Specifically I was preparing my own toggle switch LCD box project and at the bread phase of testing this out. I had actually got beyond the point of clearing the display and sending characters but then in my final checked all I kept getting was a complete 1st line of "block" characters. After a good hour of rechecking all my connections and swapping the two LCD modules back and forth between the "toggle switch" breadboard and an Arduino to sanity-check the damn things where still working, I figure it must be something to do with the initialisation but alas by understanding of the datasheet commands was weak. Thanks to 10:45 & 11:14 this helped enormously in getting my project back on track by realising that potentiometer was set a little too high but only spotted this when I send the show cursor & blink cursor commands ❤

You are amzing.This video is fantastic

You are an excellent teacher! I needed this.

Very good work. I can't wait for the STM32 videos.

Dear Sir, thanks for the detailed explanation and integrity information about 16x2 display

just subscribed....but seeing your videos quite awhile...i really like the way you explained and the way you present it... Kudos....

Absolutely amazing! Why did get this as a suggestion after freaking 3 years😢 anyways got to learn a lot❤

In-depth explanation 🔥

Very helpful fantastic work thanks a lot we are missing such a content on RU-vid professional deep understanding

very useful and your video gave a very good clarity on LCD operation .Thanks alot brother

When I have seen how you managed the wires on the breadboard and heard the (zerooos and ones) I remember Ben Eater. By the way the video is very informative

Amazing video, greetings from Ecuador.

wow, you explain how it works so clearly:) thank you a lot

Very solid approach to approaching a datasheet. I did the dumb mistake of shoving myself head first into trying to make my own Raspberry Pi Library for a 16x2 before even having a method... Eventually worked, but I wish I had seen this video sooner

Great vid. I like the low level stuff. Subscribed

Thank you for sharing well explained, keep up the good work

Please make this sort of detailed videos waiting for more knowledge from you. But the content available is just amazing 😃

Great work man !!😄

Great, appreciate your approach.

A very good demystifying video. Shows you can do a lot with simple programming, without the use of libraries. Next a simple graphic display, like the cheap tough screen shields for on an Arduino UNO.

Thank you very much friend, this explanation was very useful. Now I am using my LCD but I implemented in microcontroller for avoid the issues with the enable bit

This video is gold! Thank you! :)

Awesome work thank you for the quality content

Really amazing work!! Thank you!!

This is really useful.Thanks for sharing

I really appreciate it, i know that you spent a lot of times for editing video just make those people can understand it in simply way, i hope you make new contents about "read datasheet"

you are awesome bro. hats off to you.

I'm too lazy to read the datasheet and prefer watching great RU-vid videos like this one that explains what I need to know. Awesome work 👍

This video is awesome. I was able to write this in Arduino without using the code library.

just thank for all your effort !

Great presentation; learned a lot. Thank You

this is amazing dude

Amazing tutorial!

Nicely done.

I learned more from this video than I ever did in 1 semester at uni

WELL DONE !👏👏

Thank's bro. That was awesome

👍👍 best video for learning

I've been messing with electronics for about 10 years, I do PCB design, power electronics, been to university and did all sorts of automation, embedded programing and electronics, but... IT'S NOW THAT I FIND OUT WHAT VDD AND VSS MEAN.

This is, What I exactly want! Thanks so much! Now I can make my own Library in C++! Thanks

Thank you so much for this content!!!

Simply the best

Awesome video..Great work :)

This is beautiful

Thanks. Learnt so much.

Great content !

Excellent video

Amazing! Thank you so much!

Simply Amazing

Very nice.. You really work hard bro... Keep on

Love the message

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great stuff!

excellent job. thank you.

Thanks for the correct information

This video is awesome