Hi
I have the same problem with my project
"talking clock"

my advice is use LED instead of LCD
if you want to use LCD you must know that
it require a backplane strobe pulse
to keep the display refreshed, otherwise it'll go blank.  This is
more difficult to impliment with the PIC because you really need to
use interupts to keep regular pulses so that the displays don't flicker.


by the way I would be interessted if you solve the problem

do email me back you have some tip for my project

sam

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