wemos tft display factory

The WeMos D1 Mini family of boards is one of the latest additions to the ESP8266-based IoT ecosystem. The WeMos D1 Mini 1.44" TFT Display Shield includes the popular, full color, 128×128 pixel resolution display for showing text, graphics, and even animations.

The embedded TFT driver (ST7735) can display full 16-bit color. It is internally wired to the display, and can be controlled over SPI using pins (D3 for TFT_DC and D4 for TFT_CS; reset can be set to -1 on your preferred software library). This fantastic shields also breaks out the display pins onto an 8-pin header. Whereas the pins for using the board as a WeMos D1 Mini shield come pre-soldered, to control the display using the 8-pin header option you"ll need to solder the included 8-pin header, and wire it to your preferred microcontroller or single-board computer (Arduino, Raspberry Pi, etc.).

This small form factor shield is a convenient way to get a display on your project with a very small footprint. What makes the WeMos family of development boards for the ESP8266 great is the availability of stackable, plug-and-play shields such as this WeMos D1 Mini 1.44" TFT Display Shield. The WeMos family is a great solution for building projects quickly using the ESP8266 SoC.

The ESP32 touch sensor development kit, ESP32-Sense Kit, is used for evaluating and developing ESP32 touch sensor system. ESP32-Sense Kit consists of one motherboard and multiple daughterboards. The motherboard contains a display unit, a main control unit and a debug unit. The daughterboards have touch electrodes in different combinations or shapes, such as linear slider, wheel slider, matrix buttons and spring buttons, depending on the application scenarios. Users can design and add their own daughterboards for special usage cases.

ESP-WROOM-32 based development board with SH1106 OLED display (128×64 pixels), RJ-45 Ethernet connector, CAN-bus connector, Micro USB connector, USB-to-UART bridge, LiPo battery connector and charging circuit.

ESP32 development board with ePaper display, TI PCM5102A DAC, ICS43434 MEMS Microphone, CP2102N USB-to-UART bridge, microSD card slot, and LiPo charger.

With a small cheap TFT and an Arduino or ESP8266 many useful displays for your desktop can be made. Starting from ordinary clocks or weather stations also ideas like a display for the actual exchange rates, word clock, train schedule or even the time for the journey home can be found in the Internet.

But it"s all the same, if your are a "maker" you can"t use your inventions in the living room, the office, etc. unless you give it a professional appearance - Who like to display a "home brew" thing?

This very simple stand allows to cover your 2.4 TFT (based on a ILI9341) and a Wemos mini ESP8266 board with an appearance like bought from a gadget dealer - without any "home brew" touch.

The TFT, the ESP8266 and the two covers stick together without any glue or screws. As an example i used the color weather station of Dani Eichhorn - https://blog.squix.org/2016/10/esp8266-weather-station-color-code-published.html (Note I used a slightly different TFT, a TJCTM24024-SPI which has the same electronics but is 2.4" instead of 2.2".)

Development boards with ESP32 microcontrollers come in countless variants today. For example, we already looked at the M5StickC, ESP32-CAM, and TTGO T-Journal. In this blog, we look at the LilyGO TTGO T-Display. On this board, the ESP32 is combined with a 240×135 pixel IPS TFT display and a 3.7V battery charging circuit.

You can program the LilyGO TTGO T-Display with the Arduino IDE. For this, you need to have the IDE installed together with the ESP32 core for the Arduino IDE. How to do this can be found in the blog “ESP32 with Arduino IDE on Linux and Windows“. In brief:

This image and more information can be found at https://github.com/Xinyuan-LilyGO. There you can also find the demo sketch that is standard on the T-Display.