Hello, so i bought the LCD shield, and i am having some trouble interfacing the board with 2 legged pushbuttons, since the board is made to work with the tiny 4 leg pushbuttons i dont seem to get it to work using a singe lend push button, i am using this push buttons: https://www.adafruit.com/products/1439
how can i get this board to work with a push button like those? should i bridge the connections?
16x2 LCD Shield
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- adafruit_support_bill
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Re: 16x2 LCD Shield
Connect one pin to the pad circled in yellow below. Connect the other pin to the pad diagonally opposite.
- wolfnuka
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Re: 16x2 LCD Shield
Got it! Awesome, you just saved me re- routing my push buttons to the arduino pins and adding pull down resistors, and extra coding, thank you!!!!
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