floresta:
Ok so Im really new to this stuff, does anyone know of a tutorial or something to help me? I don't know how to get my petentiometer to do anything and I copied the picture on the website exactly and now the LCD won't even light up, I don't know what "size" the resistor is either. I'm sorry
Try the Tutorial at Arduino Tutorial - connecting a parallel LCD. Be careful with the backlight connections, the text tells all about the resistor but it does not show up in the photographs. It goes in place of the red wire at pin 15 or the black wire at pin 16.
Don
Thank you! This looks promising, yet I have a mini breadboard while this seems to be a very large one, in the case of the pretentiometer I don't see how I could replicate this on mine. Any ideas?