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I went to Skycraft yesterday and got four things.  A surplus LCD screen along with a "helper" board that I cannot figure out, a missile switch cover, a DC Jack (5.5 x 2.1mm) which fits the Arduino and lets me use a 9V battery, and a mono-multivibrator.

The multivibrator was sort of an accident.  I was looking for a 8-bit shifter with ID# 74HC595, but I couldn't find any.  I saw this chip with 74HC211, and hoped that since the numbers were close that they might be kind of the same thing.  Nope, the 74HC series is a whole bunch of chips, so I pretty much had no chance of randomly finding a shifter.

Anyway, I put the missile switch cover on my "nightplay distraction", AKA a camera flash.

I soldered the DC jack to a 9V battery connector.

Now I have to figure out how to get the LCD to work with the Arduino.  I have read a lot about it, but have yet to build the circuit.  It looks pretty straight forward though.