I like to use a display with spark. LCD or otherwise. What are some suggestions for displays that are compatible and leave enough pins for other uses.

@timb , am I right in thinking you are developing a library for the i2c backpack on the 16x2 alphanumerical display ? The backpacks found on this page are the ones strapped to the back of my 16x2. From what I understand, the demo of the twitter fridge magnet on kickstarted used a backpack. Was this…

Thanks James - have your code up and running and have begun investigating options. Have you looked at u8glib given it has support for SSD1351 or are you planning on a direct port of the existing Arduino libs you have.

[image] johnwlawrence88: @timb , am I right in thinking you are developing a library for the i2c backpack on the 16x2 alphanumerical display ? So I'm actually working on several display solutions for the Spark Core right now. There's so many different 16x2/20x2/20x4 LCD backpacks on the marke…

timb thanks for lending the whole community your obvious talents. Doug

Seems like this would be a really easy LCD solution (for me anyway :D)? http://www.coolcomponents.co.uk/16x2-display-and-keypad-shield.html Since it is an existing arduino shield, do we have the LiquidCrystal library already?

@Phil12d3 Something to begin with: [image] Liquid Crystal Library Firmware Libraries @PaulRB, Mohit said the other day that they had used a serial backpack LCD 😉 …

LiquidCrystal Library for Spark Core up on Github now: https://gist.github.com/technobly/8342145

@BDub & @timb - thanks for all your work on the drivers here. I am using the Adafruit I2C backpack with a 16x2 display (also from the fruit)… once I get my pullup situation in order I’ll be back to needing to actually DISPLAY something with this thing. Do either of you have a reccomendation for a …

@Soulhuntre you're welcome! I also replied to your other post with library support for the I2C backpack. Please let me know if it works for you :wink: [image] Using an I2C / SPI LCD on the Spark Core Hardware You’re wiring lo…

I bought this board as well and was surprised at the resistor changes needed. I’ve ordered those resistors and I’m going to try to port the Adafruit 8875 library, which uses the 4-wire SPI. I’m still thinking this is might be a dead-end: saving a few bucks and doing all this extra work might not b…

What are some suggested displays (LCD) with Spark Core

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mohit January 9, 2014, 6:30pm 62

@Phil12d3 Something to begin with:

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What are some suggested displays (LCD) with Spark Core

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