I purchased a seeeduino mega and a electronic brick starter kit,
overall its been great but I can't seem to get the lcd display to work and after looking at mutiple blogs and forms I can see that others are having trouble as well, can anyone out there provide a good example
of how to get this to work right, it appears to be a problem with getting the correct library and writing the correct code as wiring
is modular or plug and play, if some one can fillin the blancs I will try to post it in multiple forms as there seems to be a need.
thanks !
It looks like there is a problem with line 5 of your sketch.
Don
thanks for responding Don, Iam a little confused as you stated it looks like there is a problem with line #5 of my sketch, but I did not post a sketch, so I am not sure what you mean by that ?, could you be refering to the sketch in the electronic brick guide ?.
...you stated it looks like there is a problem with line #5 of my sketch, but I did not post a sketch, ...
That was my not too subtle attempt at sarcasm.
The more information that you provide the more likely you are to get a useful response. At a bare minimum you should describe your circuit, but a photo would be better. We get lots of people who have problems with circuits that are constructed 'exactly as shown at ....' You should also provide a 'cut-and-paste' version of your code. We get lots of people who have problems with code that is exactly the same as the code shown at ....'
To get started with your LCD you should follow the tutorial at Arduino Tutorial - connecting a parallel LCD. Don't skip any steps, and don't try to continue unless you can clearly see the single row of blocks in the photo about halfway down the page. Its the photo that has the caption that says "Don't keep going unless you've got this figured out!". The LCD in the photo is upside down, it's the top row that has the blocks.
Don
Hey thanks alot for responding again Don, I will check out that web page and see if I can get it up and running, I also found a possible
fix on the seeedstudio forum but in this fix they use port one instead of port #2 and use other pins so Iam a little reluctant to try it,
but I will try your Idea, Note Iam waiting for a repair part for my board so don't expect a post from me until next week some time
but I will post the result when I try your Idea thanks again !