ST7036 LCD and RPi

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Hi,
I have been given one of these:

to use on a project and I found your pypi page:

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/st7036

which looks like the code I need to make it work

Can you point me in the right direction for how to wire up the Pi to LCD?

Here’s a summary of the pin out from the PDF:

1 LED(+) backlight
2 LED(-) backlight
3 Vss 0v Ground
4 Vdd 5V (Logic supply)
5 SCLK (clock)
6 SID (data)
7 Operating voltage for LCD
8 Chip select
9 Register select
10 n/c

Thanks,

2

have a look here… ignore the I2C connections (not relevant for you). Vcc you’ll have to check what’s right and safe for the part.

3

looking a bit closer at the document you linked, I think you should be able to control the backlight using the Pi PWM capability, but certainly on/off via any GPIO… guessing more than anything though, without having a thorough read through.

5

Hi,
thanks for the pointers; I had a further problem with connecting V0, but as per your suggestion, I’ve wired it to PWM and the display is now working. I’ve actually got two of these displays and with a bit of extra wiring with CE0/1 and another pin for RS, I have both screens up and running.
Many thanks,

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In the hope this will be of use to others, here’s the pin out I settled on:

pin  lcd1  lcd2  description
1    1     1     LED(+) backlight (3.3v)
2    6     6     LED(-) backlight
3    6     6     Vss 0v Ground
4    2     2     Vdd 5V (Logic supply)
5    23    23    SCLK (clock)
6    19    19    SID (data)
7    12    12    V0 (Operating voltage for LCD)
8    24    26    Chip select
9    16    18    Register select

And then both displays can be accessed with:

import st7036
lcd0 = st7036.st7036(register_select_pin=23,spi_chip_select=0)
lcd1 = st7036.st7036(register_select_pin=24,spi_chip_select=1)
7

hum, I don’t understand… I think your chart has some errors in it (I assume all notations are physical and not a hybrid physical/bcm). Did you mean phys 17 rarther than 18 for the LCD supply?

8

All physical connections. First column is the connector on the display board. 18 is for PWM control of the LCD.

9

then I think you mean phys 12, not 18 (PWM is on bcm18 though).

10

Corrected in table - thanks