CGA monitors may not be an amazing technological advance these days, but they can generally be found very cheaply. Additionally, they have a DB-9 connector and work off of TTL ranges (0-5VDC) makin… ...

The Arduino Nano and Raspberry Pi Pico support different input voltages, so they also use different power sources. However, they can both be powered with a 5V supply via their onboard USB ports.

[Kaushlesh Chandel] prototyped a few projects on his Arduino that use an HD44780 Character LCD. Wanting to keep these projects in one piece, but not sacrifice his Arduino board, so he etched his ow… ...