tft display simulator price

TFT displays bring life to the project. Why shy with the LCD character display? OLED displays look good and stand out too but small size and limited colors limit the application to basic graphics but are still colorless. No color? No life!

Having the option of TFT display in your next Arduino project can add so many vibrant menu options, can display images, and hence can be a very rich user experience thing.

This is a very basic example of displaying a few texts on the display. We will use the library from Adafruit for the same. The best thing about the Wokwi Embedded systems simulator is that you can run the code straight from the browser. It means, you can easily share the project (as a link) and your friend can run it and lay with the project.

In this article, you will get a working Arduino project which has a simulated TFT display. The display will exactly work in the same way how it would work in the real world and with the real hardware. You can try any TFT project you have!

Let us get started. You will complete the code, connection diagram as well as live working Arduino simulation link so that you can start playing with the code instantly! For more information on the Simulated TFT display,click here.

Our TFT color displays with 2.0" / 2.8" / 3.5" are the further development of the widespread black&white graphic displays: simply connected via SPI interface and therefore suitable for all μC. Alternatively, these small TFTs can also be connected via the classic RGB interface or an 8- or 16-bit data bus.

With its 2" diagonal, the EA TFT020-23AI is indeed a tiny, but the fine resolution of 240x320 pixels conjures up brilliant images at crispy 1000cd/m². The IPS technology provides a gigantic all-round viewing angle with sunlight readability:

The displays have been developed especially for industrial applications and are available for long term. The lifetime is 50,000 hours and the operating temperature range is from -20°C to +70°C.

With the help of a USB cable, the display is connected directly to the PC or a USB power supply. As a stand-alone it is immediately executable at the power supply. Together with a PC and the Simualtortool. "startTFT.exe" you can display your own images or you change the brightness of the backlight. Rotate the screen content in 90° steps.

Interface board EA 9980-TFT for connecting a TFT display to various µC boards. With 50- and 39-pin ZIFF connector. For a fast and uncomplicated connection to your system.

Built-in character sets, graphic functions, adjustable backlight, full touch panel support; these are world-wide unique features. No more working with pixel, but using more than 112 powerful graphic functions. With integrated FLASH for more fonts, pictures and macros. Last but not least there is a cost-free simulator software for the EA eDIP240-7 and a starter kit with USB. Read more about this fine displays on our page eDIP.

Honda has posted an online simulator that lets you play with the Africa Twin’s TFT display.   The online simulator offers current or potential future riders the means to introduce themselves to the display’s functions without having to be on or own one of the machines.

Perhaps the online resource is a hidden nod to the complexity that these types of displays bring.  But kudos to Honda.  They are taking the initiative to allow riders to use and understand the system before making an Africa Twin purchase.

The website provides a simulation of the Africa Twin’s TFT display and left and right-hand control switches.  The simulator allows a rider to adjust the multiple settings available on the bike.

Once at the website, you will see a simulated TFT LCD instrument cluster with technical information on the display.  The visitor can customize the readouts with a click of a button on the left-hand control switch.  It’s found on the lower right portion of your monitor.

Unfortunately, there are no detailed instructions on how to use the simulator.  So you’ll have to fiddle a bit with the controls to understand what they do and how to change its settings.  Still, it’s a decent way to get a feel for the display and what it can do for you.

The LT768 Industrial Serial TFT Panel Solution is based on LeveTop"s LT768x TFT Graphics Acceleration Controller, combined with the conventional MCU, which also includes the integrated software developed by LeveTop. This solution helps manufacturer of the TFT panel maker, the solution developer, or the end manufacture to according display functional requirements, fast planning of hardware specifications. And free use of the entire set of LeveTop"s development tools to complete the display of its products on the TFT screen application, to avoid lengthy program development to handle the contains of TFT display.

LT768 Industrial Serial Screen scheme provides 60 control instructions, and 2 development modes, users can use the Graphic tool - UI_Editor in graphic editing mode, or Integration Compiler - UartTFT_tool in text editing way to develop the display function of TFT panel.

In this scheme, if LT768x is combined with low and middle grade MCU, which can easily realize TFT color screen display application products with the highest cost performance, such as home appliances, industrial control, electronic instruments, medical equipment, man-machine interface, industrial equipment, testing equipment, charging pile, multi-functional transaction machine, elevator instruction and check-in machine and so on.

The WA-HT HMI standard series is a complete application-ready-package which includes  a Thin Client Terminal with panel sizes from 6.5"~21.5" TFT LCD, 32GB CFast card, Microsoft Windows Embedded 7 Pro and WebAccess/HMI Runtime. This allows users to easily achieve efficient, integrated HMI solutions for flexible system integration in automation industries. The Thin Client Terminal with Intel ®  Atom™ or relevant processor providing computing performance in a compact fanless system for any field side operation.

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.

Hi guys, over the past few tutorials, we have been discussing TFT displays, how to connect and use them in Arduino projects, especially the 1.8″ Colored TFT display. In a similar way, we will look at how to use the 1.44″ TFT Display (ILI9163C) with the Arduino.

The ILI9163C based 1.44″ colored TFT Display, is a SPI protocol based display with a resolution of 128 x 128 pixels. It’s capable of displaying up to 262,000 different colors. The module can be said to be a sibling to the 1.8″ TFT display, except for the fact that it is much faster and has a better, overall cost to performance ratio when compared with the 1.8″ TFT display. Some of the features of the display are listed below;

TheTFT Display, as earlier stated, communicates with the microcontroller over SPI, thus to use it, we need to connect it to the SPI pins of the Arduino as shown in the schematics below.

Please note that the version of the display used for this tutorial is not available on fritzing which is the software used for the schematics, so follow the pin connection list below to further understand how each pin of the TFT display should be connected to the Arduino.

When connecting the display, ensure that has a voltage regulator (shown in the image below) before connecting it directly to the 5v logic level of the Arduino. This is because the display could be destroyed if the version of the display you have does not have the regulator.

In order to allow the Arduino to work with the display, we need two Arduino libraries; the sumotoy TFT ILI9163C Arduino library which can be downloaded from this link and the popular Adafruit GFX Arduino library which we have used extensively in several tutorials. Download these libraries and install them in the Arduino IDE.

For today’s tutorial, we will be using the bigtest example which is one of the example codes that comes with the sumotoy ILI9163C Arduino library to show how to use the TFT display.

The example can be opened by going to File–>Examples–>TFT_ILI9163c–>bigtest as shown in the image below. It should be noted that this will only be available after the sumotoy library has been installed.

Next, an object of the ILI9163c library named “display” was created with CS and DC parameter as inputs but due to the kind of display being used, we need to include the pin of the Arduino to which the A0 pin of the TFT display is connected which is D8.

With this done, we move to the void setup() function. Under this function, we issue the commands that initialize the display then create a time variable updated by millis, after which we issue a command to clear the screen and display some random text on it.

Some of the functions which perform actions ranging from displaying fastlines, drawing rectangles etc are then called with a delay after each function so the text or graphics stays long enough on the screen to be visible.

Up next is the void loop function. The void loop function also calls some of the same functions called under the void setup() function to display circles, rectangles etc including the testline function which is essentially used to test the screen.

With the libraries installed, open an instance of the Arduino IDE, open the examples as described initially, don’t forget to make the A0 pin (D8) correction to the code then upload to the Arduino board. You should see different kind of text and graphics being displayed on the screen. I captured the screen in action 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 about the tutorial.