Follow the steps below to wire a character LCD to your development board. Be careful to connect each wire to the correct pins as there are quite a few wires necessary to use the character LCD.
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Note: The wiring below is for an RGB backlight display. If you're using a monochrome backlight display you can use the wiring as-is and ignore the green and blue backlight wires. The red backlight wire will be used to control the monochrome display's backlight.
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{{ambox-stop|text=If you would like to permanently turn on the LCD backlight, connect the red, green, blue backlight wires to ground instead of to your development board.}}