[Chris] hooked up an Arduino to the Internet ... [Chris] decided to have some fun and set up a live feed from a camera in front of the LCD display for the world to watch.

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 ...

Normally driving an LCD requires seven connections to pins on the display, but by using a shift register, [Phillip Warner] at Arduino Playground was able to drive an LCD using only 3 wires.