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1. Introduction Done with tedious mono color backlight? This Grove enables you to set the color to whatever you like via the simple and concise Grove interface. It takes I2C as communication method with your microcontroller. So number of pins required for data exchange and backlight control shrinks from ~10 to 2, relieving IOs for other challenging tasks.
2. Specification Input Voltage Operating Current <60mA CGROM 10880 bit CGRAM 64*8 bit Colorful RGB Backlight Built-in English and Japanese fonts I2C communication, uses only two IOs Automatic power-on reset Suli-compatible Library...
3. Demonstration This demonstration will show you how to use Grove - LCD RGB Backlight, we need a Seeeduino V3.0 else. Hardware Installation Hardware installation is very easy, because there's an I2C Grove in Seeeduino, so what we need to do is connect it to I2C Grove via a Grove cable.
Change Color of Backlight One of Grove - LCD RGB Backlight's most important feature is: you can change the color backlight, and it's a very simple thing, just use the following function: void setRGB(int Then let's try a Red backlight. Modify the code about color into: const int colorR...
# Grovepi + grove RGB LCD module # Example for using the Grove I2C color LCD from grove_rgb_lcd import while(True): setText("Hello world\nLCD test") setRGB(0,128,64) c in range(0,255): setRGB(c,255-c,0) time.sleep(0.01) setRGB(0,255,0) setText("Bye bye, this should wrap") time.sleep(1.5) 3.4.1 Run The Program Find the path to the file(According to your own path) cd GrovePi/Software/Python/grove_rgb_lcd/...
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