I recently purchased the Electronic Brick Starter Kit... it it there is LCD screen. When I turn it on the pixels come on quite dark... I can see the info I am putting on the screen if I view it from an angle (from left,right, up or down)... but if I take a direct look on it just looks like black dots. Any thoughts on what I am missing?
Any thoughts on what I am missing?
How are you dealing with the contrast (the voltage on pin 3)?
Don
I have not done anything to adjust contrast... think you figured out the problem... will look up how to use using a potentiometer. thanks
Actually did a lot of digging... didn't need to pot... turns out there is a code missing "lcd.begin(16, 2);" once this was added and adjusted to bus1 it worked. This feed fixed the problem.
Actually did a lot of digging... didn't need to pot... turns out there is a code missing "lcd.begin(16, 2);" once this was added and adjusted to bus1 it worked.
That would certainly cause this problem. For some unexplained reason the LiquidCrystal library defaults to initializing the controller for a 1-line display if the lcd.begin statement is not used. This is a very poor choice since virtually all LCD displays use 2-lines of memory, including most of the displays that have only one line of characters. The 1-line displays use a different multiplexing frequency from the 2-line displays resulting in different contrast requirements.
Don