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I know that the TFT is not faulty, because I used it on an Arduino Uno using a different library, and it worked just fine. The problem with this library is that it only works on AVR processors, and as you know, the due uses an ARM processor. Does anyone know how to get something to show on screen? I would be ok with losing the sd card reader and maybe touch, but those would be a plus to keep! Thanks for reading!

From the picture of the kit you provided on ebay, the flash ic appears to be absent, indeed I understand it to be a little "hit and miss" as to whether you have the ic or not. You can check, look if there is an ic soldered on the 8 pin pad at the side of the SD cage on the rear of TFT.

The TFT/SD Shield for arduino DUE is shipped with the following jumper config, if you use TFT modules in our store, you do not need to reconfig the jumpers.

Be warned!! tinyFAT and UTFT_tinyFAT take some doing to get working successfuly, as there are just so many variables. SPI Speed can be a big issue with several newer SD cards and quality of level shifters if required.

The touchscreen size issue, I am aware of but not familiar with, as I do not have the SD1963 version of this display, mine is the CPLD version, I suspect I am not able to assist you further.

Also, as a final comment, maybe worth mentioning some people have had problems with the 7" displays if you are relying completely on USB power, you should also use external wall power adaptor (9V 1A).

Oh, I"m not worried about the board"s electrical compatibility, its just that the current Due modifications to the UTFT Library only work with the 16 bit models of LCD. I am curious what I would need to modify in the library to get my 8 Bit LCD running properly.

I"m sorry, there seems to be a mixup.. I was replying to a post that now appears to be gone (it was regarding a shield that simplified wiring a TFT to a MEGA).

I"m sorry, there seems to be a mixup.. I was replying to a post that now appears to be gone (it was regarding a shield that simplified wiring a TFT to a MEGA).

I"m sorry, there seems to be a mixup.. I was replying to a post that now appears to be gone (it was regarding a shield that simplified wiring a TFT to a MEGA).

I found this Shield http://imall.iteadstudio.com/development-platform/arduino/shields/im120417024.html that works with Boards with 3.3V or 5V so it would make it easy to use an TFT with the UTFT Lib and dimdim"s modifications. So you have the tft and the touch function together.

I wired it up according to UTFT"s documentation, adapting it to the specific TFT. It was not difficult. I should point out that it is an ITDB32WD compatible display that I got off of ebay, and not an ITead original.

The display works natively with 3.3V logic (I had to use resistors to use it with the older Arduinos) so it is actually easier to interface to the Due than to older Arduinos.

I try to convert the UFT Clock from Henning Karlsen to work with the Due Electronics - Henning Karlsen. But my Calender is blinking the clock is working proper.

I don"t use the UTFT library, but I have a sainsmart TFT shield with a mega using an SSD1289. I"m interested to see how it compares to the Due implementation.

then what Library are you using? I also have a Mega and a TFT display, but it takes about a second to clear the screen! I would love to have it run faster!

also, I hope this gets noticed by the creator of the UTFT library, who wants to port it to the Due but can"t because he doesn"t yet own one. I guess this would make porting a whole lot easier.

Here"s one more thing, when using samples (or doing your own) - you need to change bitmap definitions a bit to make it work.. For example, tux.c in UTFT_Rotate_Bitmap example:

Yes, but you need to get itdb02_32s display and mega shield for it from iteadstudio.com, these sources are compatible with that display and propably only with that display, other than 16bit modes are removed and this library only supports arduino due as I replaced and removed code, instead of just making it compatible with due along others. But here"s a library, examples work "as is" with mega pins chosen on utft init..

then what Library are you using? I also have a Mega and a TFT display, but it takes about a second to clear the screen! I would love to have it run faster!

I"m having a go at building my own driver, the mainstream libraries are too slow for games and interactivity. They all suffer a similar overhead with respect to being portable between uC"s and compatible with multiple devices. Whereas I"ve targeted my code directly to the 2560 and the display. I"ll post the code on the forums eventually.

I"m having a go at building my own driver, the mainstream libraries are too slow for games and interactivity. They all suffer a similar overhead with respect to being portable between uC"s and compatible with multiple devices. Whereas I"ve targeted my code directly to the 2560 and the display. I"ll post the code on the forums eventually.

I"m having a go at building my own driver, the mainstream libraries are too slow for games and interactivity. They all suffer a similar overhead with respect to being portable between uC"s and compatible with multiple devices. Whereas I"ve targeted my code directly to the 2560 and the display. I"ll post the code on the forums eventually.

I"ll probably post the code in the display forum. If you would like to see its current performance, I have posted a video here: http://arduino.cc/forum/index.php/topic,140111.0.html

I"ll also post any info on the library there. Remember my info was for a Mega 2560, not the Due. Although I guess its a good reference to see what we can expect at a minimum from the Due.

Just wondering as I"m working on a DSP/DAC project and arduino due is the controller of choice running the Hifiduino code for now until I learn how to code.

I have been poking around with it and sort of have the one from seedstudio working, The library would like to just write the data to the register but the due registers are all in different places in due so i made it digital read and digital write. Lots of overhead and poor performance. Was quite shocked it sort of worked at all. The touch screen was not at all hard to make work, but the tft is a nightmare.

I am trying to use TFT LCD Display ILI9486/ILI9488 480x320 with Arduino Due. The display is showing blank white screen. My test program compiles and uploads without any error. However, LCD display remains blank with white screen.

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 colorful 480x272 pixels with individual pixel control. As a bonus, this display has a capacitive touch panel attached on screen 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 Mega 2560.

This display shield has a controller built into it with RAM buffering, so that almost no work is done by the microcontroller. You can connect more sensors, buttons and LEDs.

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.

Spice up your Arduino project with a beautiful large touchscreen display shield with built in microSD card connection. This TFT display is big 4"(3.97" diagonal) bright (6 white-LED backlight) and colorful (18-bit 262,000 different shades)! 480x800 pixels with individual pixel control. As a bonus, this display has a optional resistive touch panel with controller XPT2046 and capacitive touch panel with FT6336.

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).

This display shield has a controller built into it with RAM buffering, so that almost no work is done by the microcontroller. You can connect more sensors, buttons and LEDs.

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.

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:

Displays are one of the best ways to provide feedback to users of a particular device or project and often the bigger the display, the better. For today’s tutorial, we will look on how to use the relatively big, low cost, ILI9481 based, 3.5″ Color TFT display with Arduino.

This 3.5″ color TFT display as mentioned above, is based on the ILI9481 TFT display driver. The module offers a resolution of 480×320 pixels and comes with an SD card slot through which an SD card loaded with graphics and UI can be attached to the display. The module is also pre-soldered with pins for easy mount (like a shield) on either of the Arduino Mega and Uno, which is nice since there are not many big TFT displays that work with the Arduino Uno.

The module is compatible with either of the Arduino Uno or the Arduino Mega, so feel free to choose between them or test with both. As usual, these components can be bought via the links attached to them.

One of the good things about this module is the ease with which it can be connected to either of the Arduino Mega or Uno. For this tutorial, we will use the Arduino Uno, since the module comes as a shield with pins soldered to match the Uno’s pinout. All we need to do is snap it onto the top of the Arduino Uno as shown in the image below, thus no wiring required.

This ease of using the module mentioned above is, however, one of the few downsides of the display. If we do not use the attached SD card slot, we will be left with 6 digital and one analog pin as the module use the majority of the Arduino pins. When we use the SD card part of the display, we will be left with just 2 digital and one analog pin which at times limits the kind of project in which we can use this display. This is one of the reasons while the compatibility of this display with the Arduino Mega is such a good news, as the “Mega” offers more digital and analog pins to work with, so when you need extra pins, and size is not an issue, use the Mega.

To easily write code to use this display, we will use the GFX and TFT LCD libraries from “Adafruit” which can be downloaded here. With the library installed we can easily navigate through the examples that come with it and upload them to our setup to see the display in action. By studying these examples, one could easily learn how to use this display. However, I have compiled some of the most important functions for the display of text and graphics into an Arduino sketch for the sake of this tutorial. The complete sketch is attached in a zip file under the download section of this tutorial.

As usual, we will do a quick run through of the code and we start by including the libraries which we will use for the project, in this case, the Adafruit GFX and TFT LCD libraries.

With this done, the Void Setup() function is next. We start the function by issuing atft.reset() command to reset the LCD to default configurations. Next, we specify the type of the LCD we are using via the LCD.begin function and set the rotation of the TFT as desired. We proceed to fill the screen with different colors and display different kind of text using diverse color (via the tft.SetTextColor() function) and font size (via the tft.setTextSize() function).

Next is the void loop() function. Here we basically create a UI to display the youtube subscribe button, using some of the same functions we used under the void setup() function.

The Adafruit library helps reduce the amount of work one needs to do while developing the code for this display, leaving the quality of the user interface to the limitations of the creativity and imagination of the person writing the code.

The display demand for every project is unique, a project may require just a simple, single character OLED display, while another project may require something bigger, all based on the function the display is to perform. For this reason, as a maker or electronics hobbyist, anyone needs to know how to work with as many displays as possible, that’s why today, we will take a look at how to use the super cheap, 3.2″ color TFT display with Arduino.

For this tutorial, we will use the 3.2″ TFT display from banggood. The display which is based on the HX8357B LCD Controller, supports 16-wire DataBus interface and comes with 262K color at 480 x 320 resolution. The module includes an SD card socket, an SPI FLASH circuit and a 5V-3.3V power and Logic Level conversion circuit which makes it easy to use with any microcontroller that uses either 5v or 3.3v  logic voltage level. The module can be directly inserted into an Arduino Mega or Due board.

To demonstrate how the display works, we will use the UTFT LCD library for Arduino to display some images and text on the display including an animated graph. All these will show how the display could be used for something like an oscilloscope.

These components can each be bought via the links attached. The 3.2″ TFT display, as at the time I bought it was listed on the website as a 3″ display but after buying and measuring, the size of the display is 3.2″.

The display comes in a shield form, which means it can be plugged directly into the Arduino with which it is going to be used, as such, no schematic is needed. Plug the display into your Arduino Mega or Due as shown in the image below.

To achieve the goals of this tutorial, we will use a simple sample code attached to the UTFT library. The UTFT library is a library created to facilitate easy interaction between a microcontroller and several LCD displays. Unfortunately, the latest versions of the UTFT library has no support for the HX8357B LCD controller which is used to our 3.2″ TFT display. To go round this hurdle, we will be installing a previous version of the library on the Arduino IDE.

The wonderful library written by Henning Karlsen can be downloaded from the link below. The libraries are pre-built for each Arduino board so choose the right one that matches the board you are using from the link below.

Use your favorite library installation method to install the library after downloading and launch an Instance of the Arduino IDE. With the IDE opened, click on file, select examples, select UTFT then select the Display Demo or the UTFT_Demo_480x320 example.

We will attempt to do a brief explanation of the code. The code starts by setting the speed (the wait variable) at which it runs to 2000. This speed can be reduced to zero so the demo can play slowly. After this, we include the utft library and invoke the custom library for the for Arduino Due.

with that done, we proceed to the void setup() function. Under the setup() function, we initialize the LCD using the init command and we ensure the LCD display is on landscape using the set rotation function with a value of 1.

Upload the code to your Arduino board and you should see the display come up after a few minutes, displaying texts, and different other graphics. A view of the display in action is shown in the image below.

You can use either of the two Arduino boards mentioned above for this tutorial. The Arduino due is faster than the Arduino mega so it will run the code faster than the mega. For instance, on the Arduino Due, the code took 23 seconds to get to the end while on the Arduino Mega, it took 44 seconds to get to the end confirming the speed of the Due.

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This module is designed to plug directly into Arduino UNO R3 (or its clone) boards. It is compatible with CH340 and Atmega16u2 version boards, as well as Mega 2560. This LCD shield may also work with other boards, but the compatibility can"t be guaranteed.

As an option, you can order this TFT pre-assembled onto a breakout/carrier board. The board allows easy prototyping through its 0.1" headers. You can also include the carrier board in your end product to simplify construction and assembly.

This development kit includes everything needed to get started with the 3.5" EVE module: a 320x240 display mounted on an EVE2 graphically accelerated PCBA, a Seeeduino, an EVE breakout board, jumper wires, USB cable and a ribbon cable. We even assemble this kit and pre-load some demonstration software so that you can have a functioning module in your hands within seconds.

Because the display module includes an EVE (embedded video engine) chip, it"s a perfect choice for an HMI. EVE is a graphics controller solution that can control both display and audio operations. Additionally, Bridgetek/FTDI supports the EVE chip with graphical design toolchains to aid in development.

This kit consists of a CFAF320240F-035T a 320x240 3.5" Full Color TFT LCD module mounted on a carrier board (CFA-10074). The carrier board supports a current driver for the LED backlight of the display.

This TFT LCD display module is perfect for the designer who"s looking to have a graphic and audio processor already embedded in the display unit. Powered by an FTDI/BridgeTek FT810 Embedded Video Engine (EVE) graphics accelerator chip, simply send over a few commands via SPI or I2C and the EVE will put your stored image up on the display. Need to draw a line, create dials/knobs/buttons, or rotate an image? Send a handful of bytes and the EVE will take care of it.

The Due is an open source precise microcontroller board based on the Atmel SAM3X8E ARM Cortex-M3 CPU. It is the newcomer and 1st board based on a 32-bit ARM core microcontroller. It adds new features and improve all the standard functionalities.

The Due has two usb connectors, the one with the micro-usb AB connector is the native one capable to act as an USB host, that means you can connect compatible external usb peripherals to the board, such as mouse, keyboards, smartphones. While the other USB port with the type B connector is intended for debugging purposes.

The 2.8 inch TFT Touch Screen LCD Module For Arduino is a beautiful large touchscreen display shield with built in microSD card connection. The LCD has excellent vivid color contrast. This TFT display is big (2.8″ diagonal) bright (4 white-LED backlights) and colorful (18-bit 262,000 different shades). 240×320 pixels with individual pixel control. It has way more resolution than a black and white 128×64 display. As a bonus, this display has a resistive touchscreen attached to it already, so you can detect finger presses anywhere on the screen.

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.