[Andy Brown] wrote in to show off the TFT LCD adapter he’s been ... he uses latch chips to translate eight pins on the Arduino Mega to sixteen pins on the display. Those chips have a latch ...

Assume that you are moving towards a complex microcontroller project bundled with blinkers, beepers, and a display panel. To link a standard 16×2 LCD directly with the microcontroller, for instance ...

Cascata means waterfall in Italian which meshes nicely with Arduino’s country of origin The display he chose is a Nokia LCD shield from ... between the VREF and GND pins. See it in action ...