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Mon 23.06.2025

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Library: LCD5110_Basic

I made this library for the simple reason that I could not find a ready-made library that suited my needs.

These displays were used in old Nokia 5110/3310 cell phones. It is a 84x48 pixel monochrome LCD display. These displays are small, but very readable and come with backlight. This display is made of 84x48 individual pixels, so you can use it for graphics, text or bitmaps. These displays are inexpensive, easy to use, require only a few digital I/O pins and are fairly low power as well

To drive the display, you will need 5 digital output pins. Another pin can be used to control (via on/off or PWM) the backlight, but the library has no support for this function.

The display driver is a PCD8544 chip, and it runs at 3.3V so you will need a 3V supply handy. Logic levels must be 3V to prevent damage so you must use some kind of levelshifter.

IMPORTANT:

This library uses an SPI-like software protocol and does require exclusive access to the pins used. You will not be able to share pins with other SPI devices.

Download:

LCD5110_Basic.zip
(Filesize is 371.73 KiB. Downloaded 91881 times)

Some demos showcasing most of the functions are included in the download.
This is a multi-platform library that will work with several different development board types.

Latest changes:

v2.0	18 Mar 2013	•	combined Arduino and chipKit libraries into a single library
		•	updated library to support Arduino v1.0 (and higher)
		•	added setContrast();
		•	added support for Arduino Leonardo and Arduino Due
		•	fixed a bug that caused bitmaps to use double the memory on chipKits
		•	changed license to CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
v2.1	08 May 2013	•	modified printNumI() and printNumF()
		•	added support for String objects to print()
		•	added support for chipKit uC32
		•	reorganized files
v2.11	14 Jun 2013	•	fixed the '%' symbol in SmallFont
v2.12	16 Mar 2014	•	added functions for enabling and disabling Sleep Mode
		•	added an example for the use of Sleep Mode
		•	added support for Bobuino
v2.13	08 Sep 2014	•	fixed compatibility-issues with Arduino 1.5.7

For a full list of changes please see the file version.txt included in the download.

Nice to know:

When I timed it a fullscreen bitmap rendered in 20280 µS. In theory you can achieve a framerate of close to 50 FPS.

Compatibility:

	Arduino Duemilanove w/ATmega328
	Arduino Uno
	Arduino Leonardo
	Arduino Mega
	Arduino Mega2560
	Arduino Due
	Bobuino
	Teensy 3.1

= Working

: Not working

= Not tested, Unsupported

Manual:

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The manual is included in the download

License:

By downloading the library you accept the following license:

Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)
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