{"id":276,"date":"2014-09-29T00:13:08","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T07:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ismellsmoke.net\/\/?p=276"},"modified":"2014-09-29T00:16:55","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T07:16:55","slug":"hacking-a-bv4618-20x4-lcd-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ismellsmoke.net\/?p=276","title":{"rendered":"Hacking a BV4618 20×4 LCD (Part-3)"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Part-2<\/a> of this blog post series I provided a detailed ‘How-To’ for new users of the\u00a0 ByVac<\/em> BV4618<\/em> LCD for their Arduino projects. It is clear to me there are plenty of Arduino hobbyists who want to hack LCD’s and need a simple way to wire them up and write to them.<\/p>\n

The ByVac<\/em> BV4618<\/em> LCD is a great choice. You can actually get it up and running with three wires – V+, Gnd, and Tx. Writing text to the display is pretty straightforward using the BV4618_S library. The library is useful, but Ol’ Sopwith does not think the class is easy enough to use for beginners.<\/p>\n

To solve this problem I extended the BV4618_S class library and created a new class named sop4618_S<\/em>. The class is brain-dead simple to use and it hides all the complexities of the VT100 code sequences.<\/p>\n

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The class has the following features:<\/p>\n