Information about the Tinkerkit 16x2 LCD board it's a Leonardo!

Tinkerkit appears to be defunct, So you can find some of their stuff pretty cheap.  Libraries are still on github.

https://github.com/TinkerKit

So it appears these boards are much more then just LCDs - they have a 16x2 LCD of course, the firmware loaded on them let you use them as a serial LCD needing RX and TX hooked up to your micro-controller.  But it turns out these have a Leonardo (like) controller on them, and are programmable via the Arduino IDE using the Leonardo setting.

I found some information on G+(I shared the link to the G+ community) that says the tinkerkit LCD is an Arduino Leonardo with a LCD screen, and has some information about the I/O on the board.

https://plus.google.com/u/0/+DanMoses/posts/DWmT99jqbMq

These boards can be found on eBay (From US sellers) for between $5.95 and $8 some offer free shipping, some don’t

And there are sellers wanting a lot more for these as well.  Dan Moses says he finds them on Amazon for $8 bucks all the time (I haven’t looked, but seems right)

Special Thank you goes out to Dan Moses, as I have passed up a few of these boards thinking they were just LCDs.

So here is his blog that tells all about these:

http://danduino.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-tinkerkit-lcd.html

He says he had a hard time finding the libraries, but a quick search of github and I found them no problem.

https://github.com/TinkerKit

Dan Moses Codebender (Which he points too as the place to find the libraries) is:

https://codebender.cc/user/danmoses04

I was only able to get these to program using Windows, and I selected “Leonardo” from the board list in the Arduino IDE.  Dan says they are very picky about the USB cable, but I tried 15 or so on Linux, with no luck, same cables worked fine with Windows. I don’t know.