Change Serial.print to external displays

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Hello, I have a program that will Print to the serial monitor in the Arduino environment, but i was wondering if there are any instructions or tutorials on converting from printing to serial monitor to printing to external displays such as LCD or 7-segment?

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I take it you've actually read this that tells you how to show numbers on 7-segment LEDs using the LED control library, since that's what you're trying to do?

http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Main/LedControl#NumberSeg7Control

Andrew

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Hello and thank you, Andrew.

Yes iv read that and have managed to use the code to some success (and more importantly understand most of it ;))

But I was just wondering if there was a correlation with all visual outputs such as LCD, Serial Print and LED when it came to code, or if they are all very different beasts.

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If you get a serial LCD you can print directly to it.