Sometimes, your life can be more exciting. All you need to do is using your imagination, and then give the ordinary electronic components a little bit modification.

Most of you here must be very familiar with the LCD, but how about the Arduino LCD? This Arduino LCD is slightly different from the normal LCD types, as it used the ModernDevice LCD117 Serial LCD kit.

If you refer to the above figure, you can see that the serial LCD board is fully piggybacked onto the 2×16 LCD. The BBB or “Bare Bones Board” is inserted onto the bread board with connections to GND, +5 and analog 0.

By simply hooking up the power, the ground and data are good to go. By using the ModernDevice LCD117 Serial LCD kit, there are no any libraries or handfuls of wires to be messed with.

Furthermore, the coding for LCD117 serial board is as simple as ABC, where the words, “Hello World!” can be performed with one line. The board uses a programmed PIC chip and it can convert serial commands, such as Serial.print (“Hello World!”) into LCD text without any hassle.

The LCD117 Serial LCD kit can up and running within minute after the implementation. Thus, it’s an ideal LCD kit for those that want to have something different.