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product_id: 67351347
title: "Display-O-Tron HAT - 16x3 Character LCD Display for Your Raspberry Pi"
brand: "pimoroni"
price: "S/.2"
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reviews_count: 2
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# 6-zone RGB backlight 16x3 super slim LCD 6 capacitive touch buttons Display-O-Tron HAT - 16x3 Character LCD Display for Your Raspberry Pi

**Brand:** pimoroni
**Price:** S/.2
**Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock

## Summary

> 🚀 Elevate your Raspberry Pi game with Display-O-Tron HAT — where sleek meets smart!

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** Display-O-Tron HAT - 16x3 Character LCD Display for Your Raspberry Pi by pimoroni
- **How much does it cost?** S/.2 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Currently out of stock
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## Best For

- pimoroni enthusiasts

## Why This Product

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## Key Features

- • **Expanded GPIO Breakout:** Seamlessly integrate sensors and projects with multiple GPIO pins, including I2C, SPI, UART, and PWM support.
- • **Crystal-clear 16x3 Display:** Super slim profile fits sleek Raspberry Pi setups effortlessly.
- • **Vibrant Six-Zone RGB Backlight:** Customize your workspace with dynamic, mood-setting colors that bring your data to life.
- • **Real-time LED Bargraph Monitoring:** Visualize CPU load or memory usage instantly with a handy six-element LED bargraph.
- • **Intuitive Capacitive Touch Controls:** Navigate menus or input commands with six responsive touch buttons—no clunky peripherals needed.

## Overview

The Display-O-Tron HAT by Pimoroni is a compact 16x3 character LCD designed for Raspberry Pi models 3, 2, B+, and A+. Featuring six capacitive touch buttons, a six-element LED bargraph, and a six-zone RGB backlight with diffuser, it offers versatile visual feedback and control. With GPIO breakout pins supporting multiple protocols and full ASCII plus custom character support, it’s perfect for sysadmins and makers seeking a stylish, functional display solution.

## Description

An upgraded HAT version of our Display-O-Tron! Now with capacitive touch pads, a six-zone RGB backlight, and GPIO breakout pins!The lovely 16x3 character LCD is super slim. As well as a full ASCII character set you can define eight of your own custom characters for special icons, graphs, or decoration.Add a dazzling splash of rainbow colour to your tail -f /var/syslog output with the six-zone RGB backlight. Being a sys-admin was never so much fun!The six capacitive touch buttons are ideal for navigating on-screen menus or inputting data. We've labelled them left, right, up, down, enter, and back but you can use them for anything you want! If you want to keep your Pi in a case we recommend the Pibow Coupé case as it still allows you to touch the capacitive touch inputs.As if all that wasn't enough there is also a six-element LED bar graph which is ideal for monitoring changing statistics such as CPU load or memory usage.We've broken out some common GPIO pins for those of you who want to integrate with other projects and sensors. As well as the power supply, I2C and SPI busses, UART, and the PWM pin there are also five general purpose IO pins available.Features:Fully assembled (apart from optional GPIO header)Super slim 16x3 character LCD displaySix capacitive touch input buttonsHandy six element LED bargraphSix-zone RGB backlight with diffuserGPIO breakout for 5V, 3V3, GND, SDA/SCL, TX/RX, PWM, MOSI/MISO/SCLK/CE1, and GPIO #5, #6, #13, #19, #26Full ASCII set plus eight custom charactersAs usual it comes with full Pimoroni Python support so you can get up and running easily.Checkout our GitHub repository with instructions and examples here: https://github.com/pimoroni/dot3k.

## Features

- Compatible with Raspberry Pi 3, 2, B+ and A+
- Super slim 16x3 character LCD display
- Six capacitive touch input buttons
- Handy six element LED bargraph
- Six-zone RGB backlight with diffuser

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Brand | Pimoroni |
| Item model number | PIM113 |
| Item Weight | 1.06 ounces |
| Product Dimensions | 4.33 x 2.95 x 0.75 inches |
| Item Dimensions  LxWxH | 4.33 x 2.95 x 0.75 inches |
| Number of Processors | 1 |
| Manufacturer | Pimoroni |
| ASIN | B013RC9FO4 |
| Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No |
| Date First Available | August 25, 2016 |

## Product Details

- **Brand:** Pimoroni
- **Processor Count:** 1
- **UPC:** 704256792343
- **Manufacturer:** Pimoroni

## Images

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![Display-O-Tron HAT - 16x3 Character LCD Display for Your Raspberry Pi - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91oB3kMCLiL.jpg)

## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Most Convenient way to add a display to your RaspberryPi
*by B***5 on September 1, 2018*

This LCD display is so much more practical than the other ones that go on a breadboard or have to be assembled. Takes 5 seconds to install and it comes with very nice libraries to program. I use it to display IP address and other items from my Pi.There are a few drawbacks. The contrast is not the best, but if you play with the colors and contrast parameters you can make it readable. I found that contrast of 50 and RGB of 0,200,0 (green) is the most readable.The second potential drawback is that there is no GPIO passthrough connectors, so this needs to be on the top. If you plug this directly to Pi GPIO then you can't plug anything else there. But it makes for a very nice, low profile Pi with a display. (see pictures).Note that the more common cases don't have enough room to plug this display, you need to get some of the more low profile cases.See pictures. Overall, highly recommend it you are looking for the fastest, easiest way to plug an LCD display to your Pi. excellent value, very robust.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Five Stars
*by A***. on December 6, 2017*

Great hat. Good sample software too.I used this to build a scoreboard for our foosball table!

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*Last updated: 2026-01-31*