Display text on 1602A LCD I2C display with Micro:bit

Purpose of this tutorial:

In this tutorial we will see how to display text in an LCD display with micro:bit.

Assembly

To complete the assembly you must connect:

• the SCL pin of the LCD display to the pin 19 of the micro:bit adapter
• the SDA pin of the LCD display to the pin 20 of the micro:bit adapter
• the VCC pin of the LCD display at an energy of 5v to 9V.
• GND pin from LCD display to micro:bit GND pin

There are several mounting methods.

Mounting (1)

Mounting (2)

Makecode program

Here is the makecode program to display text on the LCD display.

Note: you must go to Extensions to import the I2C_LCD1602 extension.