PIC 16F84 and Milford LCD with PBK Board

Simon, It should be pretty Easy. I also use the PicBasic Pro compiler. When I want to find an Answer to a question like yours, what I usually do is look for BASIC STAMP 2 examples, those are plenty, and you do have to make slight modifications to the program as well as the circuit, but it will always lead you in the right direction. Now to answer your question, I have hooked up serial LCDs to 16F84s plenty without a MAX chip. You'll be wanting to use the SEROUT command, as the LCDOUT command is for Parallel LCD interfacing. The serial LCD uses only 1 pin of the 16f84, while the Parallel LCD uses 8 I believe. The exact code depends on the Baud Rate (Speed) of your LCD, As well as a couple of other properties of the LCD itself. So post up the Part# or Model# of the LCD and well see what's up. In the end though your code is going to look something like this: SEROUT 3, 2, SonarDataVariable SEROUT Pin,Mode,[Item{,Item...}]

Hope this helped some, get the LCD model # up, and let us know if ya made progress.

Rick-

We have several projects with PicBasic Pro sample code & schematics here

Servo control, IR navigation, object detection/navigation with the SRF04, CDS photocells, remote control, etc,,

Hope this helps.

Regards,

-Bruce snipped-for-privacy@rentron.com

Thanks for the replies. I now have it working. I did have everything setup correct but found out that I had the jumper set for the wrong baud rate on the PBK board.

Thanks again