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This lovely little 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 1.8″ display has 128×160 color pixels. Unlike the low cost “Nokia 6110” 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 (ST7735R) can display full 18-bit color (262,144 shades!). RoboticsBD

And the 1.8 Inch SPI 128×160 TFT LCD Display Module will always come with the same driver chip so there are no worries that your code will not work from one to the other. RoboticsBD

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.RoboticsBD

The 1.8inch LCD uses the PH2.0 8PIN interface, which can be connected to the Raspberry Pi according to the above table: (Please connect according to the pin definition table. The color of the wiring in the picture is for reference only, and the actual color shall prevail.)

ST7735S is a 132*162 pixel LCD, and this product is a 128*160 pixel LCD, so some processing has been done on the display: the display starts from the second pixel in the horizontal direction, and the first pixel in the vertical direction. Start to display, so as to ensure that the position corresponding to the RAM in the LCD is consistent with the actual position when displayed.

The LCD supports 12-bit, 16-bit and 18-bit input color formats per pixel, namely RGB444, RGB565, RGB666 three color formats, this routine uses RGB565 color format, which is also a commonly used RGB format

Note: Different from the traditional SPI protocol, the data line from the slave to the master is hidden since the device only has display requirement.

Framebuffer uses a video output device to drive a video display device from a memory buffer containing complete frame data. Simply put, a memory area is used to store the display content, and the display content can be changed by changing the data in the memory.

If you need to draw pictures, or display Chinese and English characters, we provide some basic functions here about some graphics processing in the directory RaspberryPi\c\lib\GUI\GUI_Paint.c(.h).

Set points of the display position and color in the buffer: here is the core GUI function, processing points display position and color in the buffer.

The fill color of a certain window in the image buffer: the image buffer part of the window filled with a certain color, usually used to fresh the screen into blank, often used for time display, fresh the last second of the screen.

Display time: in the image buffer,use (Xstart Ystart) as the left vertex, display time,you can choose Ascii visual character font, font foreground color, font background color.;

2. The module_init() function is automatically called in the INIT () initializer on the LCD, but the module_exit() function needs to be called by itself

Python has an image library PIL official library link, it do not need to write code from the logical layer like C, can directly call to the image library for image processing. The following will take 1.54inch LCD as an example, we provide a brief description for the demo.

Note: Each character library contains different characters; If some characters cannot be displayed, it is recommended that you can refer to the encoding set ro used.

The demo is developed based on the HAL library. Download the demo, find the STM32 program file directory, and open the LCD_demo.uvprojx in the STM32\STM32F103RBT6\MDK-ARM directory to check the program.

For the screen, if you need to draw pictures, display Chinese and English characters, display pictures, etc., you can use the upper application to do, and we provide some basic functions here about some graphics processing in the directory STM32\STM32F103RB\User\GUI_DEV\GUI_Paint.c(.h)

Image buffer part of the window filling color: the image buffer part of the window filled with a certain color, generally as a window whitewashing function, often used for time display, whitewashing on a second

Display time: in the image buffer,use (Xstart Ystart) as the left vertex, display time,you can choose Ascii visual character font, font foreground color, font background color.

image.cpp(.h): is the image data, which can convert any BMP image into a 16-bit true color image array through Img2Lcd (downloadable in the development data).

For the screen, if you need to draw pictures, display Chinese and English characters, display pictures, etc., you can use the upper application to do, and we provide some basic functions here about some graphics processing in the directory GUI_Paint.c(.h)

Display time: in the image buffer,use (Xstart Ystart) as the left vertex, display time,you can choose Ascii visual character font, font foreground color, font background color.

This is a 1.44 inch display with a 128(RGB)x128 resolution. It"s an IPS full viewing angle LCD display panel, so colors look great in any direction. The driver IC is ST7735S, which adopts a general 8-pin SPI interface.

TFT-LCD liquid crystal display is a thin film transistor liquid crystal display, and it is also true color. TFT liquid crystal provides a semiconductor switch for each pixel, and a point pulse can directly control each pixel, so each node is relatively independent and can be controlled continuously, which not only improves the response speed of the display screen but also can be accurately controlled. Display color level, make TFT LCD color more real, good brightness, high contrast, a strong sense of layering, and bright colors.

Hi guys, welcome to today’s tutorial. Today, we will look on how to use the 1.8″ ST7735  colored TFT display with Arduino. The past few tutorials have been focused on how to use the Nokia 5110 LCD display extensively but there will be a time when we will need to use a colored display or something bigger with additional features, that’s where the 1.8″ ST7735 TFT display comes in.

The ST7735 TFT display is a 1.8″ display with a resolution of 128×160 pixels and can display a wide range of colors ( full 18-bit color, 262,144 shades!). The display uses the SPI protocol for communication and has its own pixel-addressable frame buffer which means it can be used with all kinds of microcontroller and you only need 4 i/o pins. To complement the display, it also comes with an SD card slot on which colored bitmaps can be loaded and easily displayed on the screen.

The schematics for this project is fairly easy as the only thing we will be connecting to the Arduino is the display. Connect the display to the Arduino as shown in the schematics below.

Due to variation in display pin out from different manufacturers and for clarity, the pin connection between the Arduino and the TFT display is mapped out below:

We will use two libraries from Adafruit to help us easily communicate with the LCD. The libraries include the Adafruit GFX library which can be downloaded here and the Adafruit ST7735 Library which can be downloaded here.

We will use two example sketches to demonstrate the use of the ST7735 TFT display. The first example is the lightweight TFT Display text example sketch from the Adafruit TFT examples. It can be accessed by going to examples -> TFT -> Arduino -> TFTDisplaytext. This example displays the analog value of pin A0 on the display. It is one of the easiest examples that can be used to demonstrate the ability of this display.

The second example is the graphics test example from the more capable and heavier Adafruit ST7735 Arduino library. I will explain this particular example as it features the use of the display for diverse purposes including the display of text and “animated” graphics. With the Adafruit ST7735 library installed, this example can be accessed by going to examples -> Adafruit ST7735 library -> graphics test.

The first thing, as usual, is to include the libraries to be used after which we declare the pins on the Arduino to which our LCD pins are connected to. We also make a slight change to the code setting reset pin as pin 8 and DC pin as pin 9 to match our schematics.

Next, we create an object of the library with the pins to which the LCD is connected on the Arduino as parameters. There are two options for this, feel free to choose the most preferred.

Next, we move to the void setup function where we initialize the screen and call different test functions to display certain texts or images.  These functions can be edited to display what you want based on your project needs.

Uploading the code to the Arduino board brings a flash of different shapes and text with different colors on the display. I captured one and its shown in the image below.

That’s it for this tutorial guys, what interesting thing are you going to build with this display? Let’s get the conversation started. Feel free to reach me via the comment section if you have any questions as regards this project.

There is little information on the Internet with a combination of this 1.77 inch TFT LCD work on Arduino Mega board. Most of the information is covering the 1.8 inch TFT LCD, and it is a little bit tricky to make this works since the connections on the board, and the code/driver may be different from other LCDs. We use this opportunity to explain the technology behind it besides just showing the readers its schematics. Later, we"ll show how to display both the temperature and humidity on the LCD with the DHT-11 sensor.

In a simple analogy, a computer uses a computer program, device driver, to talk to hardware like a printer and in the Arduino board, there is a microcontroller also uses some drivers to communicate with the LCD device. The communication between the microcontroller and devices can be parallel and/or serial when we look at it from the data transmission level. When we wired two LED lights with two separate I/O PINs on the board, we let the microcontroller sending the data in a parallel fashion. In the serial transmission, the data transmit one bit of data at a time, sequentially, over a communication channel called the bus. In web programming, we have the luxury of sending more complex data on a broader bandwidth, like JSON, a key-value pair data, when comparing with the low-level programming in electronics. There is a pulsing technique controlled by a clock, transmitting one bit every clock pulse. In this way, it compensates for the narrow path for data to pass through while maintaining the understanding of who is talking to whom or how to interpret the pieces of bit information that a device receives. With the clock speed, we can distinguish the data chunk out from the signal stream. It acts like traffic lights in the busiest city where all devices in the SPI bus shared the same clock as it maintains the data flow synchronized and controlled. As a result, paired its data line with a clock signal, the data is transferred synchronously. Many protocols are using this type of methods to communicate, such as SPI, and I2C. In our case, the LCD uses the Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) protocol to communicate with the microcontroller on the Arduino board. Just like on the Internet, HTTP is a protocol for data communication between a web server and a client computer.

In slow motion, when SS (CS) Pin is low, the ST7735S controller chip on the slave device understands that the data carried in two lines, SCK and SDA is a command from the master. When high, the data signal is being sent from the slave to master via a register select signal called RS.

Adafruit_ST7735 tft = Adafruit_ST7735(TFT_CS, TFT_DC, TFT_MOSI, TFT_SCLK, TFT_RST);Two constructors in this class mean that there are two ways to create the tft object. For 1.8 inch LCD, you should use the first constructor shown above. In our case, the 1.77 inch LCD requires us to use the second constructor.

I hope this article helps you set up the 1.77 inch TFT LCD successfully. Sometimes it is difficult to know which library to use when your manufacturer does not provide you with anything else except this label on the package. Remember to make sure that the background and text colors must be different to display characters or else you cannot see anything.