wrxsti:
hello i'm a first timer and green horn here (hey my freetronics ethermega and lcd sheild only turned up 2 days ago) i know absolutley nothing about these things except i've seen guys programing plc's at work and thought hey thats cool so i got into this,the only thing i have going for me is i learn fast, but what im getting at is any solutions will have to be explained pretty simply please? any way i bought a ethermega bought a lcd shield because it said this ''SKU 321'' and this ''Blue Backlight with white words It uses HD44780 controller, uses 4 Bit Arduino LCD Library'' i figured out how to load sketches (i even managed to make an led blink on pin 13 wowee) so next i fit my shield and and load the blink out of the lcd library and..................... nothing, well the top display line came up in solid blocks and thats all i get can anyone help me? if someone tells me how i'll paste a link to the lcd sheild i got.
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