Description

This shield is composed of an LCD 2 X 16 characters with white writing on a blue backlit. This type of lCD display requires a lot of pins to be used, that is why that MCP23017 circuit has been built on the shield to manage the LCD in i2C with only two pines of dialogue (SDA and SCL).

On this same i2C link, it is possible to control three pines for the backlight and 5 push buttons for the user part, allowing a navigation and easy validation on the LCD menus.

This shield is scheduled for the classic Arduino Duemilanove, Uno, Diecimilla, etc, but it can also be mounted on an Arduino MEGA card as long as it has additional pins of the R3 standard. He uses pine A4 and A5.

This shield is sold as a kit and needs to be welded, but counted 30 minutes. 

Documentation

Doc and editing: RGB LCD Shield - Control a 16 x 2 Character LCD using 2 pins 

Libririe Arduino: Adafruit-RGB-LCD-Shield-Library