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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.

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.

Is there a difference between the NANO and MEGA that would account for ST7735 displays working on NANO and not working on MEGA? I"m using the same pins on both....

I have tested TFT_HX8357 library with example of "UTFT_demo_480_320". after uploading program, LCD displays various colors but no text was displayed, i m writing program if anyone know how to display the text then please write to this post.

I am working with tftlcd 2.4 inch with Arduino mega 2560 board. In this code I just want to show clock as my default or home screen. By clicking on clock at any point on screen user should get a new screen in which options of three sensors(pulse oximeter, glucose sensor and pedometer) are available. By selecting any sensor by touch, the value of that sensor will appear on screen. I also want to use Bluetooth module to send data to my mobile application. I did separate integration of all these sensors with Bluetooth module HC -06, but now I want to compile my all work. I have write a code for all this procedure which is given below:

tft.drawLine(((cos((i - 90) * 0.0174532925)) * 114 + xpos), ((sin((i - 90) * 0.0174532925)) * 114 + 120), ((cos((i - 90) * 0.0174532925)) * 100 + xpos), ((sin((i - 90) * 0.0174532925)) * 100 + 120), 0xFFE0);

tft.drawLine(((cos((i - 90) * 0.0174532925)) * 102 + xpos), ((sin((i - 90) * 0.0174532925)) * 102 + 120), ((cos((i - 90) * 0.0174532925)) * 92 + xpos), ((sin((i - 90) * 0.0174532925)) * 92 + 120), 0x0000);

tft.drawLine(((cos((i - 90) * 0.0174532925)) * 102 + xpos)+1, ((sin((i - 90) * 0.0174532925)) * 102 + 120)+1, ((cos((i - 90) * 0.0174532925)) * 92 + xpos)+1, ((sin((i - 90) * 0.0174532925)) * 92 + 120)+1, 0x0000);

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).

This shield support 16-bit mode. Arduino Mega board have enough pins for one to use SD card and Touch function at the same time. The shield Support: TFT 3.2 4.3 5.0 7.0TFT01 LCD is work in 3.3V so that it can not be used directly on top of Arduino motherboard, in order to make the TFT01 LCD compatible use with Arduino board. Designed this section TFT Shield, it can be directly plugged into Arduino board Using the TFT01 LCD module.The TFT01 LCD is now supported 16-bit mode, it will not exist encounter like in 328S, only using a set of SD card interface or touch screen interface for Arduino Mega2560.

This display can be mounted on an Arduino Mega or Due. It has a fairly high resolution of 320*480 pixels and is also quite large with 3.2 inch LCD size.