For someone relatively inexperienced, an LCD interface is a lot of concepts to grasp and pins to solder, and is difficult to troubleshoot should something not work.
For someone relatively inexperienced, an LCD interface is a lot of concepts to grasp and pins to solder, and is difficult to troubleshoot should something not work.
That rapidly is becoming the default response to about 50% of the circuit design questions on this and other sites. I've amassed a ton of electronic components, but if I need just one part for some small perf-board project, it's cheaper to buy the whole thing from china assembled and tested on a PC board. That is both terrific for some levels of beginners, and a possible path to the end of circuit design as we know it for others.