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Marco Schwartz
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Marco Schwartz is an electrical engineer, entrepreneur, and blogger. He has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from Supélec, France, and a master's degree in micro engineering from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. He has more than five years' experience working in the domain of electrical engineering. Marco's interests center around electronics, home automation, the Arduino and Raspberry Pi platforms, open source hardware projects, and 3D printing. He has several websites about the Arduino, including the Open Home Automation website, which is dedicated to building home automation systems using open source hardware. Marco has written another book on home automation and the Arduino, called Home Automation With Arduino: Automate Your Home Using Open-source Hardware. He has also written a book on how to build Internet of Things projects with the Arduino, called Internet of Things with the Arduino Yun, by Packt Publishing.
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Testing the LCD screen


We are now ready to test the LCD screen. The following is the complete code that I've used to do so:

// Libraries
#include <Wire.h>
#include <LiquidCrystal_I2C.h>
#include <SD.h>
#include <Ethernet.h>

// LCD Screen
LiquidCrystal_I2C lcd(0x27,20,4);

void setup()
{
  // Initialize LCD screen
  initDisplay();
  
}

void loop()
{
  // Print message on the LCD screen
  lcd.setCursor(0,0);
  lcd.println("This is a test of the LCD screen!");
}

// Initialize LCD screen
void initDisplay()
{
  lcd.init();      
  lcd.backlight();
  lcd.clear();
}

Let's look at the code line by line:

The first part of the code includes the libraries that we need in order to carry out this project. The four libraries that you should include are Wire.h, LiquidCrystal_I2C.h, SD.h, and Ethernet.h:

#include <Wire.h>
#include <LiquidCrystal_I2C.h>
#include <SD.h>
#include <Ethernet.h>

Then, we declare the LCD instance. If you have used a different screen...

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Marco Schwartz

Marco Schwartz is an electrical engineer, entrepreneur, and blogger. He has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from Supélec, France, and a master's degree in micro engineering from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. He has more than five years' experience working in the domain of electrical engineering. Marco's interests center around electronics, home automation, the Arduino and Raspberry Pi platforms, open source hardware projects, and 3D printing. He has several websites about the Arduino, including the Open Home Automation website, which is dedicated to building home automation systems using open source hardware. Marco has written another book on home automation and the Arduino, called Home Automation With Arduino: Automate Your Home Using Open-source Hardware. He has also written a book on how to build Internet of Things projects with the Arduino, called Internet of Things with the Arduino Yun, by Packt Publishing.
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