adafruit 1.44 color tft lcd quotation

Hi guys, over the past few tutorials, we have been discussing TFT displays, how to connect and use them in Arduino projects, especially the 1.8″ Colored TFT display. In a similar way, we will look at how to use the 1.44″ TFT Display (ILI9163C) with the Arduino.

The ILI9163C based 1.44″ colored TFT Display, is a SPI protocol based display with a resolution of 128 x 128 pixels. It’s capable of displaying up to 262,000 different colors. The module can be said to be a sibling to the 1.8″ TFT display, except for the fact that it is much faster and has a better, overall cost to performance ratio when compared with the 1.8″ TFT display. Some of the features of the display are listed below;

TheTFT Display, as earlier stated, communicates with the microcontroller over SPI, thus to use it, we need to connect it to the SPI pins of the Arduino as shown in the schematics below.

Please note that the version of the display used for this tutorial is not available on fritzing which is the software used for the schematics, so follow the pin connection list below to further understand how each pin of the TFT display should be connected to the Arduino.

In order to allow the Arduino to work with the display, we need two Arduino libraries; the sumotoy TFT ILI9163C Arduino library which can be downloaded from this link and the popular Adafruit GFX Arduino library which we have used extensively in several tutorials. Download these libraries and install them in the Arduino IDE.

For today’s tutorial, we will be using the bigtest example which is one of the example codes that comes with the sumotoy ILI9163C Arduino library to show how to use the TFT display.

The example can be opened by going to File–>Examples–>TFT_ILI9163c–>bigtest as shown in the image below. It should be noted that this will only be available after the sumotoy library has been installed.

Next, we define some of the colors that will be used along with the corresponding hex values. If you’ve gone through any of our previous tutorials where we used the Adafruit GFX library, you would have noticed that this code contains a lot from the GFX library and it should be easier for you to follow.

Next, an object of the ILI9163c library named “display” was created with CS and DC parameter as inputs but due to the kind of display being used, we need to include the pin of the Arduino to which the A0 pin of the TFT display is connected which is D8.

Add some dazzle to your project with this 1.45" diagonal graphic TFT LCD display module. You"ll often see this display advertised as a 1.44" Color TFT but we rounded up instead. This small display packs 128x128 full-color pixels into one square inch of active display area. It is a great choice when you need color and sharp detail while using minimal front panel space. At less than 5 grams, the display adds very little weight to handheld or wearable devices.

While the SPI interface requires only a few lines to control this TFT LCD module, it is still possible to transfer data at a rate that supports 20 FPS (Frames Per Second) screen updates -- fast enough to play a full motion video.

This lovely little display breakout is the best way to add a small, colorful and bright display on to your project. Since the display size is 1.44-inch and since TFT display has its own pixel-addressable frame buffer, it can be used with every kind of microcontroller. Even a very small one with low memory and few pins available!

In the above example, Node32-Lite and this 1.44-inch LCD.  Please refer to the tutorial here: ST7735S interfacing with ESP32 to make the connections, Arduino library installation, and modification needed for it to works on this LCD.

Note: you may have to experiment around with does the image line up correctly. Some of the 1.44" displays are setup to use the first part of memory and others the end part... So sometimes things have to be updated. I don"t have one of Adafruits displays but have ones I purchased on Ebay (which were supposed to be something else...)

This 1.44-inch display breakout is the best way to add a small, colorful and bright display to any project. Since the display uses 4-wire SPI to communicate and has its own pixel-addressable frame buffer, it can be used with every kind of microcontroller. Even a very small one with low memory and few pins available!

The 1.44 display has 128×128 color pixels. Unlike the low cost Nokia 6610 and similar LCD displays, which are CSTN type and thus have poor color and slow refresh, this display is a true TFT! The TFT driver (ST7735) can display full 16-bit color using our library code. This 1.44 inch TFT LCD Color Screen Module SPI Interface has 128 x 128 resolution and 262 colors, it uses the SPI interface to communicate with the controller such as Arduino, it is the best upgrading of the Nokia5110.

The breakout has the TFT display soldered on (it uses a delicate flex-circuit connector) as well as an ultra-low-dropout. The 1.44inch display doesn""t have a built-in level shifter, so it""s advised to use only 3.3v. Using a node MCU would be more suitable cause it provides only 3.3v. To find one, you can just search our website.

This TFT module has an ST7735 driver, adafruit has this library. this library can be downloaded directly from Arduino ide, while using the node MCU you will just have to change the pin configurations in the code.

Interesting cocktail this one - a 1.44" 16-bit colour TFT LCD display with a micro SD slot on the back! The SD slot means you can store a ton of bitmaps for your project, which otherwise wouldn"t be possible with Arduino-style boards. https://thepihut.com/products/adafruit-1-44-color-tft-lcd-display-with-microsd-card-breakout-st7735r?ref=isp_rel_prd&isp_ref_pos=9&utm_content=buffer7e96e&utm_medium=social&utm_source=pinterest.com&utm_campaign=buffer

This 1.44 inch SPI TFT Color Screen LCD Display has 128 x 128 resolution and 262 colours. This Color Screen LCD Display uses SPI interface to communicate with the controller such as Arduino, it is the best upgrading of the Nokia5110.

Unlike the low cost NOKIA6110 and similar LCD displays, which are CSTN type and thus have poor colour and slow refresh, this display is a true TFT! The TFT driver (ST7735R) can display a full 16-bit colour using our library code.

The breakout has the TFT display soldered on (it uses a delicate flex-circuit connector) as well as an ultra-low-dropout 3.3V regulator and a 3/5V level shifter so you can use it with 3.3V or 5V power and logic. We also had a little space so we placed a microSD card holder so you can easily load full colour bitmaps from a FAT16/FAT32 formatted microSD card.