I got an LCD display for an arduino microcontroller for Christmas.
The first step is to solder the pin header on the edge connectors:
Fortunately, for travel/work reasons, I had my soldering iron along.
Not a bad bit of soldering, considering how little I've done in the past months/years.
Of course, in terms of fine soldering, these solder pads are the size of Texas, so I had a lot of room for error.
The blog software's coming along. I know, I know, it's still ugly, but I have a working scheme for keeping track of image files, and linking stuff together, which works. I got the basic core stuff debugged today. There are a lot of utility scripts to write, but I think the main php file (that displays this page) is getting pretty well debugged. I worked on that a bunch yesterday and today as well.