After quite a bit of work and component purchasing, I've finally managed to get a combination of screen and board to work together properly. This will be vital for not only the larger project I'm working on this for, but also for controlling and operating the Sound Processing Shield as I work up its sketch library.

The bad news is that I don't really expect to be able to buy my assembled test board until April, or until the COVID relief money comes (whichever is first, though at this rate I'm expecting the latter). So I probably won't be able to do any serious work on this until May... and I'm starting to feel kind of eager to get going!