Hey everybody, I recently bought a Spark fun LCD 5110 screen for a project. Problem is, I cant get ANYTHING to show up on the screen. Can someone please let me know how to get one of these things working? If I cant get it working I want to get a new one as this might be defective. I am using it with my uno and pin 1 power is hooked up to 3.3, pin 2 GND is hooked up to GND, and pins 3-7 are hooked up into 3-7 on the arduino. I have installed both the adafruit liberaries, GFX and the hardware driver. Any code to get an image shown would be helpful.
ashtonmehrle:
I have installed both the adafruit liberaries, GFX and the hardware driver.
You only need one library included to prove up the display. There are different versions of the 5110 that look superficially the same. You need to ensure that the library is appropriate to the display. I guess the best source for a library is Sparkfun, along with the code to use it.
The first software I used for the 5110 had no library. I don't think it is a good way to go but it did get me started.
http://blog.stuartlewis.com/2011/02/12/scrolling-text-with-an-arduino-and-nokia-5110-screen/