Talk:LCD Example

I'm new to wiki.pinguino (active) so please inform me when I am doing something wrong.

I was wondering regarding LCD example Why not use the 4bit solution. As the standard pinguino has a very limited amount of pins, freeing up 4 pins could be a major difference.

In my current project (Lightning Trigger) I use 1 analog input (P17). This means sending Pin 13 till 16 down the drain because they are now Also analog inputs. (Could use trick but that's not the point) From the remaing 13pins the LCD uses 10 which means only 3 inputs are available. While when using the 4bit solution I would have 7 inputs.

A nice example I found at http://pmcsblah.blogspot.com/2010/03/pinguino-and-lcd-module-4-bit-data-bus.html

When my lightningtrigger is finished I hope to contribute this as an example.

Kind regards.

Kurt

Feel free to contribute. I wrote most of the content, and get a bit sad that nobody was contributing. Greak Job.

You can add a LCD4bits page for example.