Stan­dard HD44780 LCDs are use­ful for cre­at­ing stand­alone projects.20 char­ac­ters wide, 4 rowsWhite text on blue back­groundCon­nec­tion port is 0.1″ pitch, sin­gle row for easy bread­board­ing and wiringSin­gle LED back­light with a resis­tor includ­ed, you can pow­er it direct­ly from 5V. If it’s too bright for you, it can be dimmed eas­i­ly with a resis­tor or PWM and uses much less pow­er than LCD with EL (elec­tro­lu­mi­nes­cent) back­lightsCan be ful­ly con­trolled with only 6 dig­i­tal lines!Built in char­ac­ter set sup­ports English/Japanese text, see the HD44780 datasheet for the full char­ac­ter setUp to 8 extra char­ac­ters can be cre­at­ed for cus­tom glyphs or ‘for­eign’ lan­guage sup­port (like spe­cial accents)Comes with nec­es­sary con­trast poten­tiome­ter and strip of head­erFor more infor­ma­tion, check out our detailed step-by-step Arduino LCD tuto­r­i­alWe have a gener­ic 20x4 datasheet that has dimen­sions and pin-loca­tions (the exact mod­el may vary but the pinout, size and pro­to­col infor­ma­tion is the same). We also have a HD44780 datasheet with the detailed com­mands for con­trol