wemos tft display price

Note: Because Wemos regularly improves its products, it may be that an older version is supplied than the one mentioned in the link above. Moreover, the pictures on our site might show an older version of the product we currently supply. If you want to know which version we currently have in stock, please contact us.

The touchscreen is a shield that mounts on arduino, not on Wemos. If you selected Wemos for wifi communications then you"ll have to get both arduino and wemos, and connect them (examples in the forum).

Warning:Some people wronlgy report that VCC of this display need to be linked to 5V pin. Remember to connect both VCC and BLK to 3V3 Pin of WeMos D1-R2.

Adafruit GFX Library, as described in the documentation this is the ‘core’ class that all our other graphics libraries derive from. Install this library in addition to the display library for your hardware. In the code you will include it as “Adafruit_GFX“

Adafruit ST7735 and ST7789 Library that as the name descibes This is a library for the Adafruit ST7735 and ST7789 SPI displays (in the code will be included as Adafruit_ST7789)

Great little screen with the Wemos TFT 10p cable plugs straight into the Wemos Lolin D32 Pro making a great easy setup. Add a Adafruit Lithium Ion Polymer Battery - 3.7v 150mAh and JST 2-pin Extension Cable with On/Off Switch - JST PH2. Now you have a portable Mini development system and no soldering required.

Wemos is popular for their low cost WiFi board based on Espressif SoCs. Their most popular board is ESP8266 based Wemos D1 mini thanks to its compact form factor, low price ($5 shipped), and available add-on boards.

But they’ve also launched some ESP32 in the last year or so with development boards such as Wemos LOLIN32 Lite. Their latest ESP32 board – LOLIN D32 Pro v2.00 – features ESP32-WROVER module, and beside exposing I/Os via breadboard compatible headers, also offers a micro SD card slot, a TFT display connector, and an I2C header.

Wemos LOLIN D32 Pro V2.0.0 board is sold for $8.80 + shipping (around $4 here) on Aliexpress. You’d think the company would also provide a TFT display module to fit nicely into their TFT connector, but I could not find any on their Aliexpress store, maybe it’s coming later. In the meantime, you would have to “cook” something yourself possibly using Loboris’ ESP32 TFT library together with a supported TFT display module based on ILI9341, ILI9488, ST7789V or ST7735 display controller. [Update: Actually one of the displays for Wemos D1 mini comes with such female TFT connector, and all you need if an extra cable also sold by Wemos. See comments for links and details.]

In this guide we’re going to show you how you can use the 1.8 TFT display with the Arduino. You’ll learn how to wire the display, write text, draw shapes and display images on the screen.

The 1.8 TFT is a colorful display with 128 x 160 color pixels. The display can load images from an SD card – it has an SD card slot at the back. The following figure shows the screen front and back view.

This module uses SPI communication – see the wiring below . To control the display we’ll use the TFT library, which is already included with Arduino IDE 1.0.5 and later.

The TFT display communicates with the Arduino via SPI communication, so you need to include the SPI library on your code. We also use the TFT library to write and draw on the display.

In which “Hello, World!” is the text you want to display and the (x, y) coordinate is the location where you want to start display text on the screen.

The 1.8 TFT display can load images from the SD card. To read from the SD card you use the SD library, already included in the Arduino IDE software. Follow the next steps to display an image on the display:

Note: some people find issues with this display when trying to read from the SD card. We don’t know why that happens. In fact, we tested a couple of times and it worked well, and then, when we were about to record to show you the final result, the display didn’t recognized the SD card anymore – we’re not sure if it’s a problem with the SD card holder that doesn’t establish a proper connection with the SD card. However, we are sure these instructions work, because we’ve tested them.

In this guide we’ve shown you how to use the 1.8 TFT display with the Arduino: display text, draw shapes and display images. You can easily add a nice visual interface to your projects using this display.