sending text from 1 arduino to another one with a LCD

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been banging my head on the wall and its hurting bad....its probaly simple...So how do i send text from one arduino to another one with a LCD...i have some extra ATMega328 chips and want to sent them up as a serial LCD driver....how can i do this...not to keen on Arduino programming yet of the serial kind...PLEASE...somebody help...Thank You

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oldPGMguy:
been banging my head on the wall and its hurting bad....its probaly simple...So how do i send text from one arduino to another one with a LCD...i have some extra ATMega328 chips and want to sent them up as a serial LCD driver....how can i do this...**not to keen on Arduino programming yet of the serial kind...PLEASE...somebody help...**Thank You

Well at least you understand the method you have to master, serial communications. There are several example sketches in the file menu under 'communications' of the arduino IDE and there is an arduino reference section that explains the various serial commands and what they do, Serial - Arduino Reference

If one wishes to build their own custom projects with an arduino, there is no getting around having to learn to program in the C/C++ language one uses to create their custom sketches. It may seem a mountain to climb at first, but once mastered you will find the view to be outstanding.

Lefty

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Once you understand serial communications, you may find that you don't want to ties up the hardware serial port writing to the other Arduino. That's where SoftwareSerial comes in handy.

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You could use I2C, and not tie up serial ports.

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i understand learning C, i just need a couple lines of code to point me in the right direction...I'm almost 65 years old...learning comes slow....i started out with a scott edwards basic stamp 1/LCD kit years ago..it used a PIC chip to serialy control with 1 wire...from a hardware stand do i connect using TX/RX pins?...I just want to enclose the 328 chip and LCD in a case for test purpose's...i will look into I2C Nick...All i asking for is some code to get started....Thank You Guys

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There are plenty of Serial communication and LCD examples that give you more than a couple lines of code.

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oldPGMguy:
i understand learning C, i just need a couple lines of code to point me in the right direction...

The page I linked to had examples.

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Sorry Nick, I went to your page and found what i needed and more...a lot of good info on your forum....thanks again for your help...gonna have to build that alarm clock