#hd44780
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #hd44780 from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
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Day-by-day usage
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-03 19:23 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-10-03 19:23 UTCLive pulse
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-03 19:23 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 16 public posts (spanning ~52573 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 19:00
Languages: English (8) · German (4) · Japanese (1)
Avg boosts / post: 3
Top of the latest posts
Then I wondered: Can you actually reprogram a character while it is being displayed? Like you may expect in such an old chip, the #HD44780 does *not* latch the customized character anywhere. Instead, every time it scans out the characters t
Some of you who are deeper into it may also know that these are based on the #HD44780 IC by Hitachi. They are quirky (for example, in this four-line display, the second row has a higher address than the third row) and the font is baked into
Small Microcontroller Displays I found myself wanting several small displays connected to a microcontroller, so was doing a bit of a trade-off between various options, and was starting to lose track, so this post collects some of those thou
#hd44780 across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #hd44780 straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.
Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/hd44780