Literally spent the entire evening just to make the LCD display turn on with a blank cursor! Why did it take so long? That's because there was an error in the datasheet! In the pin connection chart someone actually committed the sin of reversing the + and - pins! So no wonder the display wasn't powering up...thankfully reversing the polarity miraculously didn't fry anything. But I should have known to not trust the datasheet when I saw some handwritten comments scribbled on it...
Anyhow, the display is working now with a nice blank cursor waiting for a secret message to be written to it. To be continued tomorrow...
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