RGB Backlight Positive LCD 16x2 - Black on RGB

This is a fancy upgrade to standard 16x2 LCDs, featuring black characters on a full color RGB-backlight background, allowing you to change the backlight color to any of your choice such as red, green, blue, pink, white, purple, yellow, teal, salmon, chartreuse or leave it off for a neutral background.

This LCD is the most daylight readable character LCD available from Adafruit, providing beautiful and easy readability regardless of backlight color or brightness.

Custom made to Adafruit's specifications, it is compatible with existing LCD projects, utilizing only the red LED in such cases. Pins 17 and 18 are for the green and blue LEDs respectively. The LCD includes onboard resistors allowing it to be driven with 5V logic and draws ~20mA per LED.

The package includes a single 16x2 RGB backlight LCD, a 10K contrast potentiometer, and a strip of header pins. Tutorials and wiring diagrams for Arduino and CircuitPython are available to help you get started quickly.

Features:

• 16 characters wide, 2 rows
• Black text on multi-color background
• 0.1" pitch, single row connection port for easy breadboarding and wiring
• Pins documented on the back of the LCD to assist wiring
• Single RGB LED backlight included, dimmable via resistor or PWM, lower power consumption than EL backlights
• Each R, G, B LED has a built-in 200 ohm resistor, operable from 3V or 5V DC
• Fully controllable with only 6 digital lines and 3 PWM pins for the backlight
• Built-in character set supports English/Japanese text
• Allows up to 8 custom characters
• Includes 10K contrast potentiometer and strip of header pins
• Screen dimensions: 27mm x 71mm (1.1" x 2.8")

For full details, recommended tutorials, and step-by-step instructions, visit our Character LCDs learning guide.