The latest liquidcrystal library added support for making your OWN cool characters, this was used to make the really cute ‘degrees’ symbol (above). Here’s a site that makes the code for you!
That’s cool; though for the example, there’s already a (not quite as round/nice) degrees symbol available on most HD44870-based LCD controllers, character 0xdf.
This is great! But “really cute”. There’s no hearts, flowers, rainbows, unicorns, or little ponies with freakishly long manes and tails.
Comment by CVBruce — August 7, 2010 @ 10:10 am
Here’s cute:
#include <LiquidCrystal.h>
LiquidCrystal lcd(12, 11, 5, 4, 3, 2);
byte newChar[8] = {
B01010,
B10101,
B10001,
B01010,
B00100,
B00000,
B00000,
B00000
};
void setup() {
lcd.createChar(0, newChar);
lcd.begin(16, 2);
lcd.write(0);
}
void loop() {}
Comment by inventorjack — August 7, 2010 @ 1:52 pm
We have a heart symbol here
http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=popup_image_additional&pID=181&pic=0&products_image_large_additional=images/large/LCDblue162ard_LRG.jpg
but we think the degree symbol is cuter
Comment by ladyada — August 7, 2010 @ 2:16 pm
That’s cool; though for the example, there’s already a (not quite as round/nice) degrees symbol available on most HD44870-based LCD controllers, character 0xdf.
Comment by Matt — August 11, 2010 @ 3:29 am