Hi, I have been having a great time with my nerdkit.. off the ground it was a little tough, but well worth the effort. Anyways.. the first three letters of the top line of my lcd are always blank. Is this a wire problem?

I have seen this. I do not have a exact answer but I resolved it by playing around with the space and character counts between the "..." .

The LCD is very sensitive about the spaces and character counts.

I think it is "supposed" to be 25 character per line but that varies with upper case lower case.

Also the prior line will run into the next line messing things up.

Make sure to use lcd_line_one(); two(); three(); and four(); and also a lcd_init(); may help at the start.

Play around with it you'll get it to work.

Ralph

Hi spacecase20,

Is this a problem you are seeing on the initial set up before you program the chip with your own program? Were you able to write to those spaces before, and now you can't?

Ralph is right that the spaces can cause strange looking errors because the lines wrap around on themselves, so if you write off the edge off the first line you end up writing on the the third line. Try a quick experiment where you only write a few letters to line 1, see if they show up.

Let us know what you find.

Humberto

Thanks for the replies! After testing it out some more I have the letters working again. I think my spacing was the problem.

It's working now, thanks again!