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In this tutorial, we are going to interface a 3.5-inch TFT display with Raspberry Pi Zero Wdevelopment board. Although Raspberry pi zero itself has an HDMI output that can be directly connected to a Monitor, but in projects where space is a constrain, we need smaller displays. This TFT touch screen display can be easily interfaced to the Raspberry Pi to display the system console, movies, and images, as well as control a relay board and other devices at your fingertips. We’ve used software like MobaXterm or putty to connect to the PC remotely in past tutorials. Here, we are going to use MobaXterm software to install the required drivers for interfacing TFT display with Raspberry Pi Zero W.

This TFT LCD display has a 3.5-inch resistive touch screen display and is compatible with any hardware of the Raspberry Pi family. This 3.5" TFT display has 480x320 pixels with a 16-bit resolution and resistive touch option. It can fit directly on top of the Raspberry Pi Zero W board and gets powered from the Vcc pin, the display communicates through SPI protocol with the Pi. Additionally, you can also use the HDMI port on the Pi to connect it to another display as well. It is designed for Raspberry Pi Zero/Pi 2 /Pi 3 Model B / B+ and can also be used on other hardware platforms which have SPI interfaces. The highlights of this display module is that it supports plug and play without rebooting the Pi and the SPI speed runs as fast as 32MHz to support games and videos.

There are 26 pins in TFT RPi LCD display. It"s used to establish SPI communication between the Raspberry Pi and the LCD, as well as to power the LCD from the Raspberry Pi"s 5V and 3.3V pins. The description of pins is shown below.

It is very easy to connect Raspberry Pi Zero W with a 3.5” TFT LCD display. There are 40 pins on the Raspberry Pi Zero W, but only 26 pins on the LCD, so make sure you connect the pins to your Pi correctly. A strip of female header pins on the LCD will fit snugly into the male header pins. To establish the connection, simply align the pins and press the LCD on top of the Raspberry Pi zero W. When everything is in place, your Pi and LCD should look like the one given below.

After you"ve connected the LCD to the Raspberry Pi Zero W and power on it, you"ll see a blank white screen on the LCD which is due to the fact that no drivers for the linked LCD have been installed on the Pi. So, open the Pi"s terminal window and start making the necessary adjustments. Here, we are going to use MobaXterm software for connecting Raspberry Pi Zero W but you can use PuTTY or any software which is most comfortable for you.

It"s expected that your Raspberry Pi already has an operating system installed and can connect to the internet. If it is not then you can follow our previous tutorial Getting Started with the RASPBERRY PI ZERO W – Headless Setup without Monitor. It"s also assumed that you have access to your Raspberry Pi"s terminal window. In this tutorial, we are going to use MobXterm in SSH mode to connect it with Raspberry Pi Zero W.

Step-2: In this step, we are going to enable SPI connection for Raspberry Pi Zero W. To enable SPI communication, select ‘Interface options’, and then select ‘SPI option’. Then click on "yes" to enable SPI interfacing.

Step-3: Now as we have enabled the SPI interfacing, in this step, we are going to install touch driver in our Raspberry Pi Zero W. You can install the touch drivers using the below command:

Step-5: Now, restart your Raspberry Pi Zero W. When the Raspberry Pi Zero W restarts, you will see the boot information on the LCD display before the desktop appears, as shown below.

I would like to add one thing at the end of this tutorial that while doing this interfacing, I faced a problem related to OS. TFT display interfacing with Raspberry Pi Zero W was not working on Raspberry Pi OS LiteandRaspberry Pi OS with desktopbut when I used the Raspberry Pi OS with desktop and recommended software then TFT display interfacing with Raspberry Pi Zero W worked as expected.

This is how you can interface Raspberry Pi Zero W with a 3.5 inch TFT Raspberry Pi display. In our next tutorials, we are going to interface different sensors with Raspberry Pi Zero and you will see some amazing DIY projects using Raspberry Pi Zero W. I Hope you"ve enjoyed the project and learned something useful. If you have any questions, please leave them in the comment section below or use our forum to start a discussion on the same.

The TFT isn’t ‘plug & play’ with the Raspberry, a patch has to be applied to the kernel to be able to interface via SPI with the ST7735R controller chip on the TFT. Once working, the display will act as a framebuffer device.

As it takes over three hours to compile the kernel on the PI, I will show how to cross compile from another Linux PC. In my case, it is Ubuntu 12.10 running within VMWare on a Windows 7 Quad core PC. Kernel compile time is 15 mins.

-Copy config from the Raspberry Pi to the Ubuntu box using SCP. Replace ‘raspberrypi’ below with the IP address of your Raspberry Pi if hostname lookup fails.

If you are planning on displaying the console on the TFT, then enabling these options in .config will allow you to change the font size and rotate the display later on.

To enable parallel processing for a faster compile. If you have a dual core processor add -j 3 to the end of the command below. If you have quad core, add -j 6

The last step below is to SCP the files from from Ubuntu to the Raspberry Pi. If you have trouble SCPing into your Ubuntu box you may need to install open SSH on Ubuntu with sudo apt-get install openssh-server. This step also copies the files from my home folder ‘mark’… yours would be different.

If you build the st7735 driver pair as built-in, add these options to the end of the line in /boot/cmdline.txt. This will display the console on the TFT.

I"ve been using the PI 3.3V to connect to both VCC and LED pins on the display. The backlight is quoted to draw max 50 mA. I wonder if this is the proper way to do this, because I read that the older pi"s had a theoretical limit of 50 mA on the 3.3V pin. I understand this limit is really no longer there for the zero 2 model, it"s more around 800 mA from what I understand.

So my question is, what is the ideal way of powering a display like this? Can I connect to the 5V? Or would this potentially fry the GPIO inputs? Or is it currently best to use the 3.3V to power the display?

Here the same, I can only get the display working with: busnum=1, every other parameter or deleting this parameter let the screen white and I get the same error message like above.

*/fragment@1{target=<&pio>;__overlay__{ads7846_pins:ads7846_pins{pins="PA1";function="irq";//bias-pull-up;};};};fragment@2{target=<&spi1>;__overlay__{#address-cells = <1>;#size-cells = <0>;status="okay";ads7846@0{compatible="ti,ads7846";reg=<1>;/* Chip Select 0 */status="okay";pinctrl-names="default";pinctrl-0=<&ads7846_pins>;spi-max-frequency=<1600000>;interrupt-parent=<&pio>;interrupts=<012>;/* PA1 IRQ_TYPE_EDGE_FALLING */pendown-gpio=<&pio010>;/* PA1 *//* driver defaults, optional */ti,x-min=/bits/16<0>;ti,y-min=/bits/16<0>;ti,x-max=/bits/16<0x0FFF>;ti,y-max=/bits/16<0x0FFF>;ti,pressure-min=/bits/16<0>;ti,pressure-max=/bits/16<0xFFFF>;ti,x-plate-ohms=/bits/16<400>;};};};};

The touch screen LCD is ready with 320×480 resolution, 50 FPS (Frame per second). Resistive touch control is being supported by the Raspberry Pi OS or Raspbian (directly-pluggable). However, we will still need to install the driver for graphic display :)

However, there is a dedicated case/enclosure and a low-profile heatsink with a fan for this LCD to fit perfectly on the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B. The case has an opening for the LCD, and the low-profile heatsink with a fan keeps the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B protected and cool! You get a perfect console :) Don"t forget to remove the top lid/cover of the enclosure for the 3.5-inch LCD.

Note: The Raspberry Pi 4 Model B, 3.5-inch Enclosure, and the Low-Profile Heatsink with a fan are NOT INCLUDED in this product, please get them separately.

As we understand, Raspberry Pi 4 Model B delivers great performance and of course, more power will generate more heat as of all CPU :) So we need a way to install an additional heatsink to dissipate the extra heat. It will be better if we can have the option to add a cooling fan for active cooling. Well, this 3.5-inch touch screen LCD comes ready with the heatsink and cooling fan for you to use with the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B. it solves all the concerns.

The 3.5-inch touch screen uses the GPIO on the Raspberry Pi board, so it stretches out 2 pins as the power to supply the cooling fan on the low profile heatsink, and keep the Raspberry Pi board cool!

Note: The Raspberry Pi 4 Model B, 3.5-inch Enclosure, and the Low-Profile Heatsink with a fan are NOT INCLUDED in this product, please get them separately.

The Graphic driver is provided and can be downloaded for Raspberry Pi OS/Raspbian. It also supports Ubuntu and Kali Linux. Do follow the steps here: http://www.lcdwiki.com/MHS-3.5inch_RPi_Display

Note: Please use the recommended system for the touch screen. If another system is used, it may not have the touch function or may not work. You need to configure it yourself. Because there are many systems that the Raspberry Pi can use, we can’t make every system compatible with the touch screen.

I was wondering about the Arduino Zero Pro and the hard-SPI ILI9341 TFT (320x240) shield. I hope this is a proper thread to share my findings and ask a question.

I am using Adafruit_GFX library version 1.10.4, Adafruit Zero DMA library version 1.0.8, board "Arduino M0 Pro", and have cut the traces on the Adafruit "2.8 TFT LCD shield w/Touchscreen and microSD card v2.0" (quoting the silkscreen; there"s no part #). It"s using the SPI on the ICSP port.

I wrote a lot of code using drawBitmap() to move a GFXCanvas to the screen. Performance was discouraging. I put a scope on the SPI clock and the TFT CS wire and saw the SPI clock moving at 24MHz, but discouraging lags between individual bytes. Each byte moved in 310ns, but the time per byte was over five times that. (See attachment)

I would have expected a memory-to-perhiperal DMA from a bitmap in memory to be moving many bytes edge-to-edge, at least the SPI FIFO size (16 bytes on SAMD21 SERCOM) for a wide-enough GFXCanvas.

I removed the #define of USE_SPI_DMA and saw no added slowdowns. I write a loop to do a fillScreen() 100 times and take the average, and that confirms no difference: 251.14 milliseconds per fill with or without the #define.

Should I see any difference, or is my experiment flawed? Is my subclass intializer causing this? Should a drawBitmap() of a canvas as wide as the TFT and 16 scan line high create a burst of DMA-speed SPI traffic? Am I using the wrong #define (is it a good test case)?

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