Some form of sanity prevailed and I decided that if I wanted to go with a graphical display then I should, at least for my first Arduino project, go with something with an already existing library.
I noted two libraries, one seemingly mainly supporting a KS0108 controller, and another, called u8glib supporting that and a few more types besides, though not being hugely conversant with these things maybe they’re “compatible”.
So I went to the RS site, and filtered the displays by all the controllers that appeared on the compatible listing, and after consideration settled on this 160×104 display, and an amber backlight.
I also decided to get some solid core “hook up wire”. This seemed expensive at RS, mainly because it looked like it was in HUGE lengths. So I looked at my usual “fallback” supplier, Amazon.co.uk, and found there were cheap supplies of solid 22 AWG wire. I did have the problem of which colour or colours to choose. In the end I didn’t choose and bought them all as they were relatively cheap.
There is one wrinkle, after placing the order for the LCD display and backlight I was further reading the tech sheet, and noticed there was a touch screen optional extra. At the time of writing I’ve not ordered one, as I’m trying to decide whether to go down that route, or using a range of buttons.
Almost there with the “major” components.
B.