This is my first post, and I’d like to go ahead and apologize for adding to the number of Arduino-related help topics 
I recently bought an [Arduino Duemilanove, along with [this breadboard and [this LCD. I’m trying to make a simple digital clock for a school project.
I can’t seem to get the LCD to correctly interface with the Arduino, although I’m pretty sure I’ve wired everything together correctly. I am using the LiquidCrystal “Hello World” example provided with the arduino-0017 software package, and am using the comments at the beginning of that program as a guide to base my wiring on.
This is how I currently have everything wired up:
Digital pin 2 -> LCD Pin 14 (DB7)
Digital pin 3 -> LCD Pin 13 (DB6)
Digital pin 4 -> LCD Pin 12 (DB5)
Digital pin 5 -> LCD Pin 11 (DB4)
Digital pin 11 -> LCD Pin 6 (Enable)
Digital pin 12 -> LCD Pin 4 (RS)
V5 -> LCD Pin 15 & Pin 2
Gnd -> LCD Pin 16 & Pin 1
I also have a 10K potentiometer going into LCD Pin 3 for contrast adjustment.
With this, I have the LCD backlight turn on correctly, and after after turning the pot, I see a whole top line of very solid squares and a fainter bottom line of squares.
I have included some pictures of the actual setup, although I’m afraid it might be a little hard to make any sense out of it. I’d like to go ahead and say I’m just a high school student working a project I have no experience in, so if something is blatantly wrong with this thing, I’d like to use that as my excuse :mrgreen:
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