Recommended · for beginners
Arduino LCD Tutorial | How To Control An LCD
Why people recommend it
Shows how to wire and drive a 16x2 character LCD from an Arduino, including the contrast potentiometer; people point beginners to it when a display stays blank.
Watch for: using pin 1 clashes with the serial monitor
In their words
I wonder how many of 846,000 viewers of this youtube had the same issue?
Guy on arduino.stackexchange.com, Jun 2020. CC BY-SA.