Top 5 Most Commonly Used Display Modules by Makers

Display are an important part of embedded projects. Whether you design a sensor based project or measure something through micro controllers, you might want a display module to show those values to a display. Wondering which display modules are the most commonly used by students and makers, we checked many online DIY projects built by and intended for students and makers. So let's check the top 5 mostly commonly used display modules among those electronics projects.

1) 16x2 LCD Display 

16x2 LCD Module

These LCD modules are commonly used in most embedded projects, the reason being its cheap price, availability and programmer friendly. Apart from being used by students and makers, they are also used in various products and many of us would have come across these displays in our day to day life, either at PCO’s or calculators. If you are deciding to build a project and you can use a simple display, it is a good choice to buy 16x2 LCD display.

2) 7 Segment Display

7 Segment Display

The seven segments displays are the oldest yet one of the efficient types of display used in embedded applications. This display has nothing more than 8 LED inside it. If your project only requires to display just a few digits, a seven segment display will be perfectly work for that.

3) 2.4 Inch TFT Touchscreen LCD Display

How to Use 2.4 Inch TFT LCD SPFD5408 With Arduino Uno and Mega

This is another popular display mainly used for projects which needs fancy displays and need a touchscreen functionality. It's commonly used with Arduino board since it's easy to use with the board and a lot of libraries and resources are available online. You can buy this TFT touchscreen display for your next Arduino project.

4) 20X4 Graphical LCD

2004A Graphical LCD Module


It looks more similar to 16x2 LCD but instead of that, it has 20 rows and 4 columns to display texts. Apart from that this LCD can also be used to display graphics and custom characters. You can buy this display here.

5) 3.5 Inch TFT Touchscreen Display for Raspberry Pi


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This 3.5" TFT display has 480x320 pixels with 16-bit resolution and resistive touch option. It can fit directly on top of the Raspberry Pi board and gets powered from the Vcc pin, the display communicates through SPI protocol with the Pi. If you want to use a touchscreen display for Raspberry Pi board, this display is a good fit and also not very expensive.




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