hd44780-driver

Implementation of the embedded-hal traits for the HD44780.

Documentation

Crates.io - https://docs.rs/hd44780-driver

Examples

Currently there are basic examples for Raspberry Pi as well as the Adafruit Metro Express M0 as those are the devices I currently have on hand.

Any platform that implements the embedded-hal traits is supported by this library! See awesome-embedded-rust for a list of supported platforms.

Getting Started

This library aims to keep it simple in that to get started all you will have to do is supply the HD44780::new function a bunch of pins from your platform that implement the OutputPin trait for embedded-hal as well as a struct that implements the delay traits DelayUs<u16> and DelayMs<u8>.

// Code grabbed from the metro_m0 example
let mut lcd = HD44780::new_4bit(
    pins.d4.into_open_drain_output(&mut pins.port), // Register Select pin
    pins.d3.into_open_drain_output(&mut pins.port), // Enable pin

    pins.d9.into_open_drain_output(&mut pins.port),  // d4
    pins.d10.into_open_drain_output(&mut pins.port), // d5
    pins.d11.into_open_drain_output(&mut pins.port), // d6
    pins.d12.into_open_drain_output(&mut pins.port), // d7

    delay,
);

// Unshift display and set cursor to 0
lcd.reset(); 

// Clear existing characters
lcd.clear(); 

// Display the following string
lcd.write_str("Hello, world!");

// Move the cursor to the second line
lcd.set_cursor_pos(40);

// Display the following string on the second line
lcd.write_str("I'm on line 2!");

Features

• 4-bit & 8-bit modes are supported

Todo

• Busy flag support (Waiting for support from embedded-hal to read and write from a pin)
• Non-blocking API
• A more user-friendly API with additional features
• Custom characters

Contributing

• Additional issues as well as pull-requests are welcome.

• If you have a platform not yet covered in this repository that is supported by embedded-hal, a pull-request of an example would be awesome!

License

This project is licensed under MIT license (LICENSE or https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)