LCD Backpack, RGB LCD 16x2, Raspberry Pi Zero

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seanman3000
 
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Re: LCD Backpack, RGB LCD 16x2, Raspberry Pi Zero

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So big progress so far.... Got the LCD to work using this tutorial:

http://BANNED.org/blog/2013/05/using ... pberry-pi/

Had to make a couple more connections between the LCD and the Gpio on the Pi, but lo and behold, we have backlit text:
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Re: LCD Backpack, RGB LCD 16x2, Raspberry Pi Zero

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nice :)

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Re: LCD Backpack, RGB LCD 16x2, Raspberry Pi Zero

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Hey. Just added support for this. Update to latest library:
https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_Python_CharLCD
and see this example:
https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_Py ... ackpack.py

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