Hippogriff
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Hi,
I have bought a standard 16-pin HD44780-compatible LCD display that I plan on setting up so that I can do easy(ier) debugging of my JAL code by having something other than a LED to indicate what's going on in code.
I understand that I won't need all 16 pins to use this LCD display. However, I'm genuinely stumped as to what connection I would be best using to connect this thing to a breadboard.
At the moment, I'm planning on soldering on a 16-way male PCB header pin, but what do I then require to connect to those header pins? Is there a specialised 16-way (16 x 1) connector and cable that I could use? Male on one end, female on the other?
At first I thought it would be ribbon cable - the type used for floppy drives and such (like this **broken link removed** ) - but I can't seem to find a 16 x 1 header for that... 16 x 2 isn't a problem (I think) but I'm wondering why 16 x 1 doesn't exist.
Then I definitely thought it would be these DuPont connectors (like what you see here on eBay **broken link removed** ) am I going down the right path by looking at those? There's no UK sellers, weirdly, so I'd have to wait a couple of weeks for it to arrive from the Far East.
Searching Rapid brought me nothing, really... I found the PCB male header pins, of course, but something that would connect nicely to them didn't then jump out at me.
Again, this might simply be a question of "I can't search properly for something before I know the terminology for it"... so any guidance appreciated.
P.S. - obviously I'd like it to be nicely detachable, so I'm not planning on just soldering a load of wires to it, although... thinking again... that might not be a bad idea...![Wink ;) ;)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
I have bought a standard 16-pin HD44780-compatible LCD display that I plan on setting up so that I can do easy(ier) debugging of my JAL code by having something other than a LED to indicate what's going on in code.
I understand that I won't need all 16 pins to use this LCD display. However, I'm genuinely stumped as to what connection I would be best using to connect this thing to a breadboard.
At the moment, I'm planning on soldering on a 16-way male PCB header pin, but what do I then require to connect to those header pins? Is there a specialised 16-way (16 x 1) connector and cable that I could use? Male on one end, female on the other?
At first I thought it would be ribbon cable - the type used for floppy drives and such (like this **broken link removed** ) - but I can't seem to find a 16 x 1 header for that... 16 x 2 isn't a problem (I think) but I'm wondering why 16 x 1 doesn't exist.
Then I definitely thought it would be these DuPont connectors (like what you see here on eBay **broken link removed** ) am I going down the right path by looking at those? There's no UK sellers, weirdly, so I'd have to wait a couple of weeks for it to arrive from the Far East.
Searching Rapid brought me nothing, really... I found the PCB male header pins, of course, but something that would connect nicely to them didn't then jump out at me.
Again, this might simply be a question of "I can't search properly for something before I know the terminology for it"... so any guidance appreciated.
P.S. - obviously I'd like it to be nicely detachable, so I'm not planning on just soldering a load of wires to it, although... thinking again... that might not be a bad idea...
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