but since this post is about “interfacing an arduino with a serial lcd controller”, i’m quite disappointed. old lcd panels in my junk box: 4. lcd panels with serial controller: none.

However, if you use an LCD module with I2C interface, you only need 2 lines to process the display information. Now a days, it is not necessary to buy an expensive I2C LCD for this task because ...

This one’s a bit abstract. Remember those LCD games that became quite popular sometime in the 1990’s? You know, the ones that had only one game, usually a character that could be moved … ...