How to connect LCD display to your Raspberry pi 3 (IoT)
This is the first episode of a series that will explain how to use a Raspberry pi in the IoT world. We will start connecting the raspberry pi 3 to an LCD display.
Raspberry pi is a small and affordable computer that you can use to learn programming. For more informations you can visit their website or also you can find online a lot of resources and code related to it.
This tutorial will be straightforward, as all my tutorials/articles, and we will get quick to the point without any prolix description.
Before coding it is important to connect your Raspberry pi 3 to your external device that in our case is an LCD display.
In this case we are using a standard LCD 1602 (16 characters for 2 lines).
It is important that we understand how to connect them having a look at the electrical schema of your LCD display and your pi.
The layout of the LCD display is usually printed on it as you can see from the picture below:
