adafruit 1.8 tft lcd factory

Enjoy an impressive colour display and more with this wonderful little shield. It’s a simple way to build on your Arduino project by adding a micro-SD card slot, joystick and small screen. The 1.8″ display may be small, but it boasts 128 x 160 colour pixels and is a true TFT, offering 18-bit colour (262144 shades).

This is a single-chip controller/driver for 262K-color, graphic type TFT-LCD.  It consists of 396 source line and 162 gate line driving circuits. This chip is capable of connecting directly to an external microprocessor, and accepts Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI), 8-bit/9-bit/16-bit/18-bit parallel interface.