The inspiration for starting this project is winning the February Free Trial from DFRobots.com

http://www.dfrobot.com/community/february-free-trial-results.html

The prize, an LCD12864, should be shipping soon on a slow boat from Hong Kong, but I'm not waiting for it to arrive.  I already have one of their older products, an LCD Keypad Shield with a 16x2 HD44780 textual LCD on it with individual tactile switches instead of a digital joystick, but it's a good starting point for the main loop and the non-GLCD code.