Amicus is a multifunction development system inspired by the popular Arduino board, however, the Amicus board uses a Microchip PIC® microcontroller instead of an Atmel AVRtm type.
Comprehensive documentation and a helpful and friendly support environment, make using
Amicus18 an easy and enjoyable experience for beginners and seasoned programmers.
Forum Moderator Mackrakit (Dave) very kindly ported the Proton BASIC Compiler code over to PBP3 and modified the original AMicus18 docuemts for PBP3 users.
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Re: serial LCD 1602 Backpack using PIC16F690 for Hitach HD44780
The backlight is controlled by 255d and 0d or 255d and 8d.
Ioannis Today, 22:05Have yet to send some text over the LCD.
Ioannis