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==== Introduction ==== | ==== Introduction ==== | ||
- | [[http://www.adafruit.com/category/63|We sell tons of lovely character LCDs for use with Arduino]], they are extremely common and a fast way to have your project show status messages. This tutorial will show how you can easily connect a character LCD, either 16x2 or [[http://www.adafruit.com/products/198|20x4]]. | + | [[http://www.adafruit.com/category/63_96|We sell tons of lovely character LCDs for use with Arduino]], they are extremely common and a fast way to have your project show status messages. This tutorial will show how you can easily connect a character LCD, either 16x2 or [[http://www.adafruit.com/products/198|20x4]]. |
The LCDs we sell at Adafruit have a low power LED backlight, run on +5v and require only 6 data pins to talk to. You can use **any** data pins you want! | The LCDs we sell at Adafruit have a low power LED backlight, run on +5v and require only 6 data pins to talk to. You can use **any** data pins you want! | ||
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- | This tutorial will cover character LCDs | + | This tutorial will cover character LCDs carried at Adafruit - [[https://www.adafruit.com/category/63_96|such as our "standard" blue&white 16x2, RGB 16x2 LCDs, "standard" blue&white 20x4 |
+ | and RGB 20x4]]. We don't guarantee it will work with any other LCDs. If you need help getting other LCDs to work, please contact the place you purchased it from, they'll be happy to help! | ||
==== What you'll need ==== | ==== What you'll need ==== |