If such a thing does not exist, it should. I very much enjoy the wiki documentation, but it would be nice to have an offline copy. My father asked me about this yesterday and I told him, "I'm sure they have some form of printable reference." I cannot find it, so I think I have misspoke. He has been into electronics for more the 30 years and just can't be comfortable without a printed manual. If such a thing doesn't exist, I will write a bash script to scrape it from http://arduino.cc/en/Reference/Extended?action=print I would just like to know if I am wasting my time recreating someone else's work.

I'm new to electronics and I'm trying to figure out if it is dead or not.  Here is the product in question: http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=256 I have tested the back light and it works. I don't have a potentiometer for the contrast lead, but I figured that I could use a 10k resistor instead.  I don't know whether it should be connected to + or -.

I've tried this: http://arduino.cc/en/Reference/LiquidCrystalConstructor and wired it accordingly.  I'm not able to get the LCD to do anything.  Any ideas on how I can verify that it is not dead?

The announcement on the blog was made by Massimo Banzi.
All the info on the arduino.cc page for the shield comes from
David A. Mellis. (Based on this)

I'm wondering were the discussion about this piece of hardware it taking place, or who I can contact in order to contribute to the effort of getting the SD reader supported. I have asked this question on the developers mailing list.

Any ideas?

I am limited on what I can do as my first post. I will follow up.

This is a great thread.  Thanks for contributing.  Just thought I'd capture the landmark I stumbled upon