GEM vs pcd8544

GEM

Good Enough Menu for Arduino (by Spirik)

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pcd8544

Minimal footprint library for Philips PCD8544 LCDs on the Arduino. (by carlosefr)

Arduino lcd Driver Library attiny

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GEM		pcd8544
	Project
1	Mentions	2
226	Stars	90
-	Growth	-
8.3	Activity	1.8
3 months ago	Latest Commit	over 3 years ago
C++	Language	C++
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only	License	MIT License

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GEM

Posts with mentions or reviews of GEM. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

Party Hard!
1 project | /r/StarVStheForcesofEvil | 19 Jun 2022

Some (arguably extremely banging) demo for my Arduino menu library I did a while back.

pcd8544

Posts with mentions or reviews of pcd8544. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-04-14.

Can I use this library with an ATtiny85?
2 projects | /r/arduino | 14 Apr 2021

All the pins can be changed from the default values you just need to set them when you call the constructor. Look here: https://github.com/carlosefr/pcd8544/blob/6555ce575565724afbf9bc84d341082d2059f99b/PCD8544.h#L65

What are some alternatives?

When comparing GEM and pcd8544 you can also consider the following projects:

ArduinoMenu - Arduino generic menu/interactivity system

LiquidCrystal_PCF8574 - A library for driving LiquidCrystal displays (LCD) by using the I2C bus and an PCF8574 I2C adapter.

Arduino-MQ131-driver - Arduino driver for gas sensor MQ131 (Ozone / O3)

NOKIA5110_TEXT - ASCII text Library for the Nokia 5110 LCD ( PCD8544 controller) for the Arduino microcontroller eco-system. Nine ASCII text fonts of various sizes . Designed to be light weight, low memory footprint. Tested on Arduino , STM32 and ESP-X

TaskScheduler - Cooperative multitasking for Arduino, ESPx, STM32, nRF and other microcontrollers

LiquidMenu - Menu creation Arduino library for LCDs, wraps LiquidCrystal.

hl-alyx-glove - Firmware and Hardware for a Half-Life: Alyx Gravity Glove Replica

ATtiny84-TinyCalibrator - OSC Calibrator and High-Voltage Fuse Resetter for 8-Pin ATtinys

TM16xx - Arduino TM16xx library for LED & KEY and LED Matrix modules based on TM1638, TM1637, TM1640 and similar chips. Simply use print() on 7-segment and use Adafruit GFX on matrix.

attiny1616-dev-board - Drop-in replacement for Arduino Nano based on ATtiny1616 chip