Quote Originally Posted by skimask View Post
Well, hate to give you a bit of bad news, but you can't drive that LCD directly using PicBasicPro (maybe you already knew that, maybe not...)
It's set up such that the I/O from the expander drive the LCD pins. The LCD is a standard parallel, Hitachi 44780 compatible type from the looks of it.
If you do a Google search on that term, you should be able to find some documentation on how to drive it. I don't have anything with me at the moment or I'd attach it here.
Once you get your head wrapped around driving that LCD thru the I/O expander, it should be a piece of cake.
Since the board is from Microchip, I can't imagine somebody NOT having already written some 'libraries' to handle that.
SO I guess that mean I must send the data out serially?? Like I said I hvae no programming experience, so everythign is new...