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Hello everyone to my new tutorial in which we are going to program arduino for tft lcd shield of 3.5" with ILI9486 driver, 8 bit. I found it important to write this tutorial as if we see we find tutorial for 1.44, 1.8, 2.0, 2.4, 2.8 inch shields however there are no or less tutorials available for 3.5" shield as its completely different from other smaller tft lcd shields -adafruit tft lcd library doesn"t even support ILI9486 driver in 3.5" tft lcd, it supports drivers of tft shields lesser then 3.5"

Go through the above link to know better, lets start with our tutorial however if we can"t use Adafruit_TFTLCD library which library will we use ?, there"s a simple answer to this that"s MCUFRIEND_kbv library which helps to use 3.5" tft lcd shield, if you see this library makes it much more easier to program arduino for tft lcd shield than adafruit as we have to simply create a tft object in MCUFRIEND_kbv library and then using that we can control the tft lcd shield however in Adafruit_TFTLCD library we will have to create the object and also define connections which makes it a very long task.

Once added, create the tft object using library name and a name for object, you can also define some color codes for text which we are going to type, using the define function and giving color code. This all is to be done before setup.#include#include#define BLACK 0x0000#define RED 0xF800#define WHITE 0xFFFFMCUFRIEND_kbv tft;

Its time to now start our tft lcd screen and change the background, this is to be done by using some simple functions by obtaining the tft ID and changing the background bytft.fillScreen("color_name");void}

Now we will be programming in loop for printing text on TFT LCD shield, for that we will be using a number of functions such as -tft.setCursor("x","y");x means the position from the x axis on screen and y means position from the y axis on screen of tft lcd shield.tft.setTextSize("number");number here refers to text size which take parameter as number you can give any number from 1 according to your requirements.tft.setTextColor("color");color here means to give the color name we had defined before setup, this makes the text color as whatever you give.tft.print("value");value is nothing but what you want to print, whatever you give as value must be in double quotes.void loop() {// put your main code here, to run repeatedly:tft.setCursor(0,0);tft.setTextSize(3);tft.setTextColor(WHITE);tft.print("my first project with tft -");tft.setCursor(0,70);tft.setTextSize(2);tft.setTextColor(RED);tft.print("welcome to the world of arduino and display , myself I love arduino and game programming very much. This is why I have my own youtube channel in which I share my arduino projects and games made by me , isn"t it amazing !");}

Graphics which we see in our phone is combination of square, rectangle, circle, triangle, lines. This is why here we will learning how to draw the following shapes.tft.drawRect(x,y,width,height,color);x means the position from the x axis of the screen, y means the position from y axis of the screen, width refers to set the width of rectangle, height refers to set the height of the rectangle and color means the color of rectangle you want it to be. You can use this same function by simply keeping the height and width same.tft.drawCircle(x,y,radius,color);x means the position from the x axis of the screen, y means the position from y axis of the screen, radius is a para to set the radius of circle and color means the color of circle you want it to be.tft.drawTriangle(x1,y1,x2,y2,x3,y3,color);x1, y1, x2 etc. are to set the position of triangle"s three points from which lines are drawn.tft.drawLine(x1,y1,x2,y2,color);x1 and y1 are to set point 1 from which line is made to point 2 which is set by x2 and y2.

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In this article discuss about the interfacing of a 16x2 Liquid Crystal Display with Arduino Uno. And then read the analog value using the inbuilt ADC of Arduino Uno. Here I am going to connect the LCD in parallel way. We can also interface this LCD with only just 4 wires. (I2C communication is used there). Stay tuned for that article. This article help you to interface LCD with Arduino and make your project to fight against Covid -19This article is mainly for beginners.The code explained line by line.

Why it is called 16x2 ? Because you can write 16 characters or numbers in column wise and 2 in row wise. This display have total of 16 pins. Here I only use 12 pins. Here we use the pins except D0, D1, D2, D3. Because here I interface the LCD in 4 bit mode.

Open Arduino IDE. Here we use "Liquid Crystal" library. This is an inbuilt library, so no need to install that library separately. First I am going to call this library.#include

Next initialize the library with the number of the interface pins. With the function "LiquidCrystal lcd()". The function has six attributes. These are the interface pins in the order of "RS, E, D4, D5, D6, D7". Here we use pins 12, 11, 5, 4, 3, 2. corresponding to above.LiquidCrystal lcd(12, 11, 5, 4, 3, 2);

Now can call this display by "lcd". Next program the setup part. We need to set the number of columns and number of rows. Here I am using the LCD with 16 column and 2 rows. Set the number of columns and rows by the function "lcd.begin(16, 2)". If you have a display with 16 columns and 4 rows this become "lcd.begin(16, 4)". And set the A0 pin as input.lcd.begin(16,2);

We need a starting point to start printing. So set the cursor to that particular point by the function "lcd.setCursor()". This function have only two attribute. It is that starting points.(The number of column and number of row). Here I am staring from first column first row. The first column is represented as 0, second is 1, and so on and the first raw is represented as 0, second is 1. So we need to start from the position (0, 0). You can easily understand if you know about matrix. The piece of code become,lcd.setCursor(0,0);

Next is the core part of this article. The instruction to print. I am going to print "Hello Hackster" by the instruction "lcd.print()". Alternatively you can print any thing. Please don, t forgot the double quote marks.lcd.print("Hello Hackster");

In the above printing statement we use total of 14 characters. So the current position of cursor is at (14, 0). Next I am going to print on the next line, ie the position (0, 1). Set the cursor to that point by the function "lcd.setCursor()".lcd.setCursor(0,1);

Now the cursor is at the position of second row and first column(0, 1). Then print another text "Value" by the function lcd.print().lcd.print("Value : ");

Here we use 8 characters in second line. So the current position of cursor is (8, 1). Next we need to read the analog value from the pin A0. For more about analog value conversion please see my previous article here. And print it to the display. I use the function "analogRead()" function to read the analog value and use the "lcd.print()" function to print the value to the display. And there is no need of double qunotes.lcd.print(analogRead(A0));

Next I add some delay. Otherwise the text will blinks continusoly. That because of the first instruction "lcd.clear()". Every time when see this command the Arduino will clear the display, This results the blinking of display. But use of delay will decrease this blinking.delay(500);

Connect the LCD to the Arduino Uno. You can use a breadboard or just use the jumber wires. For permanent connection use a LCD shield for Arduino Uno.The connection diagram is given in the Schematics part. Please careful about the backlight LED connection. Over voltage will kill that LED.Please don"t copy-paste my code. Try to understand the code line by line and create your own sketch.

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The Arduino TFT screen is a backlit TFT LCD screen with a micro SD card slot in the back. You can draw text, images, and shapes to the screen with the TFT library.

The Arduino TFT library extends the Adafruit GFX, and Adafruit ST7735 libraries that it is based on. The GFX library is responsible for the drawing routines, while the ST7735 library is specific to the screen on the Arduino screen. The Arduino specific additions were designed to work as similarly to the Processing API as possible.

The TFT library relies on the SPI library, which must be included in any sketch that uses the scree. If you wish to use the SD card, you need to include the SD library as well.

The screen can be configured for use in two ways. One is to use an Arduino"s hardware SPI interface. The other is to declare all the pins manually. There is no difference in the functionality of the screen between the two methods, but using hardware SPI is significantly faster when drawing.

If you are using an Esplora, the structure of the program is the exact same. As the Esplora has a socket designed for the screen, and the pins for using the screen are fixed, an Esplora only object is created when targeting sketches for that board. You can reference the screen attached to an Esplora throughEsploraTFT.

To give the illusion of motion, you need to quickly erase and draw images on the screen. When using Processing on a powerful computer, you can callbackground() every time through your draw() function to erase the window contests and dra objects in their new positions. The Arduino is not as fast, is it takes a little time to clear the screen when calling background() with the TFT library.

The TFT library includes a basic font for drawing text on screen. By default, characters are 5 pixels wide and 8 pixels tall. It is possible to change the font size to 10x16, 15x24, or 20x32. For additional information on the underlying font capabilities, see the Adafruit page on graphic primitives.

The TFT library has the ability to read .bmp files off a SD card and display them on the screen. Images can be smaller or larger than the screen resolution (160x128), but there is no method on the Arduino for image manipulation. The images should be sized before you put them on the SD card.

In the following example, a bitmap that is 160x128 pixels named "arduino.bmp" is in the root directory of a SD card. When read by the library and drawn, the image will fill the screen.

Even if the screen"s headers are designed to fit into the socket on the front of the Arduino Esplora or the Arduino Robot but, this module is compatible with any AVR-based Arduino (UNO, Leonardo, etc...) or with the Arduino Due. If you want to use one these other boards, some slight changes on connections are required.

Connecting the pins in the proper way, you can see the lcd screen working with your Uno (or Duemilanove) just uploading the simple "TFTBitmapLogo" sketch.

The Arduino Leonardo & Arduino Yún use different pins to be compatible with the lcd screen. To set the pins MISO, MOSI and SCK, you have to use the ICSP terminals.+5V:+5V

The screen will show this message: "Arduino TFT Bitmap Example. Open serial monitor to run the sketch". Open the serial monitor to view the Arduino Logo.

To connect the lcd screen to an Arduino Due, use this pin configuration and don"t forget to set the right value for the variable "sd_cs" (#definesd_cs7) in the sketch:+5V:+3.3V

Now that you have tested the basic functionality of the screen, see the TFT library pages for information about the library"s API and additional examples. It"s also recommended to visit the Adafruit graphics library page for additional information on functions not covered.

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In this Arduino touch screen tutorial we will learn how to use TFT LCD Touch Screen with Arduino. You can watch the following video or read the written tutorial below.

As an example I am using a 3.2” TFT Touch Screen in a combination with a TFT LCD Arduino Mega Shield. We need a shield because the TFT Touch screen works at 3.3V and the Arduino Mega outputs are 5 V. For the first example I have the HC-SR04 ultrasonic sensor, then for the second example an RGB LED with three resistors and a push button for the game example. Also I had to make a custom made pin header like this, by soldering pin headers and bend on of them so I could insert them in between the Arduino Board and the TFT Shield.

Here’s the circuit schematic. We will use the GND pin, the digital pins from 8 to 13, as well as the pin number 14. As the 5V pins are already used by the TFT Screen I will use the pin number 13 as VCC, by setting it right away high in the setup section of code.

I will use the UTFT and URTouch libraries made by Henning Karlsen. Here I would like to say thanks to him for the incredible work he has done. The libraries enable really easy use of the TFT Screens, and they work with many different TFT screens sizes, shields and controllers. You can download these libraries from his website, RinkyDinkElectronics.com and also find a lot of demo examples and detailed documentation of how to use them.

After we include the libraries we need to create UTFT and URTouch objects. The parameters of these objects depends on the model of the TFT Screen and Shield and these details can be also found in the documentation of the libraries.

So now I will explain how we can make the home screen of the program. With the setBackColor() function we need to set the background color of the text, black one in our case. Then we need to set the color to white, set the big font and using the print() function, we will print the string “Arduino TFT Tutorial” at the center of the screen and 10 pixels  down the Y – Axis of the screen. Next we will set the color to red and draw the red line below the text. After that we need to set the color back to white, and print the two other strings, “by HowToMechatronics.com” using the small font and “Select Example” using the big font.

In order the code to work and compile you will have to include an addition “.c” file in the same directory with the Arduino sketch. This file is for the third game example and it’s a bitmap of the bird. For more details how this part of the code work  you can check my particular tutorial. Here you can download that file:

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Learn the basics of using a 2.4 inch TFT LCD shield with an Arduino. By using this color TFT LCD shield we can show characters, strings, button interfacing, bitmap images, etc. on the color TFT LCD. #Instructables #electronics #technology #arduinoproject #arduino #microcontroller #touchscreen

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Spice up your Arduino project with a beautiful large touchscreen display shield with built in MicroSD card connection. This TFT display is big (5" diagonal) bright (12 white-LED backlight) and colorfu 800x480 pixels with individual pixel control. As a bonus, this display has a optional resistive or capacitive touch panel with controller, attached by default

The shield is fully assembled, tested and ready to go. No wiring, no soldering! Simply plug it in and load up our library - you"ll have it running in under 10 minutes! Works best with any classic Arduino (Due/Mega 2560).

Of course, we wouldn"t just leave you with a datasheet and a "good luck!" - we"ve written a full open source graphics library at the bottom of this page that can draw pixels, lines, rectangles, circles and text. We also have a touch screen library that detects x,y and z (pressure) and example code to demonstrate all of it. The code is written for Arduino but can be easily ported to your favorite microcontroller!

If you"ve had a lot of Arduino DUEs go through your hands (or if you are just unlucky), chances are you’ve come across at least one that does not start-up properly.The symptom is simple: you power up the Arduino but it doesn’t appear to “boot”. Your code simply doesn"t start running.You might have noticed that resetting the board (by pressing the reset button) causes the board to start-up normally.The fix is simple,here is the solution.

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No! For about the price of a familiar 2x16 LCD, you get a high resolution TFT display. For as low as $4 (shipping included!), it"s possible to buy a small, sharp TFT screen that can be interfaced with an Arduino. Moreover, it can display not just text, but elaborate graphics. These have been manufactured in the tens of millions for cell phones and other gadgets and devices, and that is the reason they are so cheap now. This makes it feasible to reuse them to give our electronic projects colorful graphic displays.

There are quite a number of small cheap TFT displays available on eBay and elsewhere. But, how is it possible to determine which ones will work with an Arduino? And what then? Here is the procedure:ID the display. With luck, it will have identifying information printed on it. Otherwise, it may involve matching its appearance with a picture on Google images. Determine the display"s resolution and the driver chip.

Find out whether there is an Arduino driver available. Google is your friend here. Henning Karlsen"s UTFT library works with many displays. (http://www.rinkydinkelectronics.com/library.php?i...)

Download and install the driver library. On a Linux machine, as root, copy the library archive file to the /usr/share/arduino/libraries directory and untar or unzip it.

Load an example sketch into the Arduino IDE, and then upload it to the attached Arduino board with wired-up TFT display. With luck, you will see text and/or graphics.

We"ll begin with a simple one. The ILI9163 display has a resolution of 128 x 128 pixels. With 8 pins in a single row, it works fine with a standard Arduino UNO or with a Mega. The hardware hookup is simple -- only 8 connections total! The library put together by a smart fella, by the name of sumotoy, makes it possible to display text in multiple colors and to draw lines.

Note that these come in two varieties, red and black. The red ones may need a bit of tweaking to format the display correctly -- see the comments in the README.md file. The TFT_ILI9163C.h file might need to be edited.

It is 5-volt friendly, since there is a 74HC450 IC on the circuit board that functions as a level shifter. These can be obtained for just a few bucks on eBay and elsewhere, for example -- $3.56 delivered from China. It uses Henning Karlsen"s UTFT library, and it does a fine job with text and graphics. Note that due to the memory requirement of UTFT, this display will work with a standard UNO only with extensive tweaking -- it would be necessary to delete pretty much all the graphics in the sketch, and just stay with text.

This one is a 2.2" (diagonal) display with 176x220 resolution and parallel interface. It has a standard ("Intel 8080") parallel interface, and works in both 8-bit and 16-bit modes. It uses the S6D0164 driver in Henning Karlsen"s UTFT library, and because of the memory requirements of same, works only with an Arduino Mega or Due. It has an SD card slot on its back

This one is a bit of an oddball. It"s a clone of the more common HY-TFT240, and it has two rows of pins, set at right angles to one another. To enable the display in 8-bit mode, only the row of pins along the narrow edge is used. The other row is for the SD card socket on the back, and for 16-bit mode. To interface with an Arduino ( Mega or Due), it uses Henning Karlsen"s UTFT library, and the driver is ILI9325C. Its resolution is 320x240 (hires!) and it incorporates both a touch screen and an SD card slot.

Having determined that a particular TFT display will work with the Arduino, it"s time to think about a more permanent solution -- constructing hard-wired and soldered plug-in boards. To make things easier, start with a blank protoshield as a base, and add sockets for the TFT displays to plug into. Each socket row will have a corresponding row next to it, with each individual hole "twinned" to the adjacent hole in the adjoining row by solder bridges, making them accessible to jumpers to connect to appropriate Arduino pins. An alternative is hard-wiring the socket pins to the Arduino pins, which is neater but limits the versatility of the board.

In step 5, you mention that the TFT01 display can"t be used with the UTFT library on an Arduino Uno because of its memory requirements. It can - all you have to do is edit memorysaver.h and disable any display models you"re not using.

I think you should add a disclaimer that the code might make the Arduino Uno unprogrammable afterward (due to use up the two 0 and 1 pin) and link to how to fix it: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5290428/how-to-reset-an-arduino-board/8453576?sfb=2#84535760

Tho I realize this is quickly becoming legacy hardware, these 8,16 bit parallel spi with 4 wire controller 3.2in Taft touch display 240x380. It has become very inexpensive with ally of back stock world wide so incorporating them into any project is easier then ever. Sorry to my question. I’m having difficulty finding wiring solution for this lcd. It is a sd1289 3.3 and 5v ,40 pin parallel 8,16 bit. I do not want to use a extra shield,hat or cape or adapter. But there’s a lot of conflicting info about required lvl shifters for this model any help or links to info would be great .. thank you. I hope I gave enough information to understand what I’m adoing

#1 you need a data sheet for the display and pinout and the i/o board attached to the cable.Than before you buy check for a driver for this chip Raydium/RM69071.if no driver lib are you able to write one and do you have the necessary tools to work on this scale to wire it up ..if you answer no than search for an arduino ready product.WCH0

hooking up and adding a lib is no piece of cake insure the screen you buy is arduino ready and sold by a reputable shop with step by step directions...WCH0

I"m sorry that I can"t help you with this. You"ll have to do your own research. See if you can identify the chipset and find out if there"s an Arduino driver for it.0

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While in theory an Arduino can run any LCD, we believe that some LCDs are particularly suited to being an Arduino LCD display. We"ve currated this list of LCD displays that will make any Arduino-based project shine.

First is the interface. All of these displays support SPI. Builders often ask themselves (or us) "which interface uses the fewest GPIO pins? AND is that interface fast enough to update the screen at an acceptable rate for my application?" When using the relatively small procesor of the Arduino, SPI is usually the best interface because it takes few wires (either 3 or 4) however it does limit the overall size (number of pixels) that can be quickly controlled. I2C is another choice of interface to leave GPIOs open. We tend to recommend SPI over I2C for Arduino displays because SPI is quicker and better at handling more complex data transfer, like pulling image data from an SD card.

Which brings us to the second factor in choosing an Arduino display: the number of pixels. We typically recommend a display with a resolution of 320x240 or less for use with Arduino. Take for example a 320x240 24-bit display. Such a display takes 230,400 bytes *(8 + 2) = 2,304,000 bits for a single frame. Divide that by 8,000,000 (Arduino SPI speed of 8MHZ) = 0.288 seconds per frame or 3.5 frames per second. 3.5 fps is fast enough for many applications, but is not particularly quick. Using fewer bits-per-pixel or a display with fewer pixels will result in higher frame rates. Use the calculator below to calculate the frame rate for a display using SPI with an Arduino.

Third, we want to recommend displays that are easy to connect to an Arduino. Each of these displays has a ZIF tail or easily solderable throughholes, so no fine pitch soldering is needed. These displays can either be brought up on the CFA10102 generic breakout board, or with a custom CFA breakout board.

Most character displays can be run via Parallel connection to an Arduino. You"ll want to make sure you can supply enough current to operate the backlight.

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This example demonstrates how to draw text on the Arduino GLCD screen when connected to an Arduino. The Arduino reads the value of an analog sensor attached to pin A0, and writes the value to the LCD screen, updating every quarter second.

Define the pins you"re going to use for controlling the screen, and create an instance of the TFT library named TFTscreen. You"ll reference that object whenever you"re working with the screen.

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Hi, i am new to arduino and i need some help on how to interface a 4x3 keypad and a TFT lcd with arduino uno. I want to display the values i pressed on the keypad to the lcd. Can someone help me with that?

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Let"s get started with this creative Arduino project, where you"ll learn about the TFT LCD touch screen and how to use it to create your own colourful calculator. For a basic understanding of touch screen & LCD, a cheap TFT 2.4" Arduino shield is used to create this project. For creating a similar project, one should follow the steps and edit the code for better understanding.

The shield connects ILI9341"s data pins 0-7 to Arduino"s digital pins 2-8 (allowing parallel communication, not SPI. ILI9341"s RESET goes to Arduino analog pin A4. CS (chip select) to A3. RS (CD command/data) to A2. WR and RD to A1 and A0.

Now, open Arduino IDE and select Sketch -> Include Library -> Add .ZIP library. A browser window will open navigate to the ZIP file and click “OK”. You should notice “Library added to your Libraries” on the bottom-left corner of Arduino, if successful.

You can also find an SD card slot at the bottom of the module shown above, which can be used to load an SD card with BMP image files, and these images can be displayed on our TFT LCD screen using the Arduino Program.

The 2.4” TFT LCD screen is a perfect Arduino Shield. You can directly push the LCD screen on top of the Arduino Uno and it will perfectly match with the pins and slid in through. However, as matters of safety cover the programming terminal of your Arduino UNO with some insulator, just in case if the terminal comes in contact with your TFT LCD screen.

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The2.4 inch TFT LCD Shield Touch Screen Module For 2.4 inch TFT LCD display screenhas excellent vivid colour contrast. This Arduino Uno TFT display is big (2.4″ diagonal) bright (4 white-LED backlights) and colourful (18-bit 262,000 different shades). 240×320 pixels with individual pixel control.

As with all Arduino Shields, connecting to the Arduino is simply a matter of plugging the shield in. Take care to align the pins correctly, and ensure the bottom of the shield does not make contact with the Arduino USB port.

1 Adafruit have disabled old model LCD"s support so please install Adafruit_GFX older version 1.5.3 from Sketch--> Include Libraries --> Manage Libraries.

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TFT refreshes more quickly response than a monochrome LCD display and shows motion more smoothly. TFT displays use more electricity in driving than monochrome LCD screens, so they not only cost more in the first place, but they are also more expensive to drive tft lcd screen.

The Arduino TFT screen is a backlit TFT LCD screen with a micro SD card slot in the back. You can draw text, images, and shapes to the screen with the TFT library. The screen"s pin layout is designed to easily fit into the socket of an Arduino Esplora and Arduino Robot, but it can be used with any Arduino board.14-Sept-2022

Performance wise LEDs are far better than TFT and LCD displays. LEDs provide high contrast than LCDs/TFTs. In a LED display, you will see perfect black and perfect white which is not able to see in TFT or LCD. LED has a better viewing angle.17-Dec-2020

TFT displays also have a much longer lifespan than AMOLED displays and are available in a far greater range of standard sizes, which can be cut down to fit a space restricted enclosure for a relatively low cost adder.

If you"ve ever used a smartphone, tablet or touch screen computer, you"ve likely used a Thin Film Transistor touch screen. A TFT touch screen is a combination device that includes a TFT LCD display and a touch technology overlay on the screen.

SPI TFT Touch screen and Quad SPI TFT (Serial Peripheral Interface) is a synchronous serial data transfer protocol named by Motorola, . Here two or more serial devices are connected to each other in full-duplex mode. The devices connected to each other are either Master or Slave.

To run your display easily, you should use Arduino LCDs libraries and add them to your code. Otherwise running the display may be very difficult. There are many free libraries you can find on the internet but the important point about the libraries is their compatibility with the LCD"s driver.12-Oct-2018

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The new line of 3.5” TFT displays with IPS technology is now available! Three touchscreen options are available: capacitive, resistive, or without a touchscreen.