One of the limitations of the small 8 bit microcontrollers like the Atmel ATMega family adopted by the Arduino ... pin is persistent until another byte has not been completely sent (or received). This ...

[Andy Brown] wrote in to show off the TFT LCD adapter he’s ... translate eight pins on the Arduino Mega to sixteen pins on the display. Those chips have a latch pin which holds the output ...

then solder in the first pin while keeping the backpack in the same plane with the LCD. Once you have finished the soldering work , get four jumper wires and connect the LCD module to your Arduino as ...