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Adafruit Blue&White 16x2 LCD+Keypad Kit for Raspberry Pi

Adafruit Blue&White 16x2 LCD+Keypad Kit for Raspberry Pi

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£16.75

Price read from Pimoroni on 2026-10-22. Check before buying.

This new Adafruit Pi Plate makes it easy to use a blue and white 16x2 Character LCD. We really like the 16x2 Character LCDs we stock in the shop . Unfortunately, these LCDs do require quite a few digital pins, 6 to control the LCD and then another 1 to control the backlight for a total of 7 pins. That's nearly all the GPIO available on a Pi! With this in mind, Adafruit wanted to make it easier for people to get these LCD into their projects so they devised a Pi plate that lets you control a 16x2 Character LCD, up to 3 backlight pins AND 5 keypad pins using only the two I2C pins on the R-Pi! Th

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