LCD displays are one of the best ways to display output from the Pi. It can be difficult to get started with using LCD displays, and there are innumerable choices. If you look at an option such as the PiFace or Adafruit's display boards, they connect directly to the GPIO pins.

The following image shows a basic LCD:

We will work with a standard 16 x 2 LCD display. We need to wire up the display to the Banana Pi.