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ER-TFTM1.44-2 is 128x128 pixel 1.44 inch color tft lcd display panel with ST7735S controller and breakout board,superior display quality,wide viewing angle,super and easily controlled by MCU such as 8051, PIC, AVR, ARDUINO,ARM and Raspberry PI.It can be used in any embedded systems,industrial device,security and hand-held equipment which requires display in high quality and colorful image.It"s 4-wire serial spi interface with pin header connection.It"s easily controlled by MCU such as 8051,PIC,AVR,ARDUINO,ARM and Raspberry Pi.It can be used in any embedded systems,industrial device,security,medical and hand-held device.

This lovely little display breakout is the best way to add a small, colorful and bright display on to your project. Since the display size is 1.44-inch and since TFT display has its own pixel-addressable frame buffer, it can be used with every kind of microcontroller. Even a very small one with low memory and few pins available!

In the above example, Node32-Lite and this 1.44-inch LCD.  Please refer to the tutorial here: ST7735S interfacing with ESP32 to make the connections, Arduino library installation, and modification needed for it to works on this LCD.

Add some dazzle to your project with this 1.45" diagonal graphic TFT display module. This small display packs 128x128 full-color pixels into one square inch of active display area. It is a great choice when you need color and sharp detail while using minimal front panel space. At less than 5 grams, the display adds very little weight to handheld devices.

Thanks to the integrated Sitronix ST7735S or compatible controller, a single 3.3v source powers everything. The SPI host interface allows full read and write control of the display while using only 10 pins. The single bright white LED backlight has anode (A,+) and cathode (K, -) pins brought out on the Flexible Printed Circuit (FPC) tail. To connect, all you need is a standard 10-conductor, 0.5 mm ZIF socket such as Omron Electronics

While the SPI interface requires only a few lines to control this TFT LCD module, it is still possible to transfer data at a rate that supports 20 FPS (Frames Per Second) screen updates -- fast enough to play a full-motion video as shown in our videos.

To get started, download the datasheet and SPI sample code. And of course Crystalfontz is always here to help you when you integrate this display into your application.

Hi guys, welcome to today’s tutorial. Today, we will look on how to use the 1.8″ ST7735  colored TFT display with Arduino. The past few tutorials have been focused on how to use the Nokia 5110 LCD display extensively but there will be a time when we will need to use a colored display or something bigger with additional features, that’s where the 1.8″ ST7735 TFT display comes in.

The ST7735 TFT display is a 1.8″ display with a resolution of 128×160 pixels and can display a wide range of colors ( full 18-bit color, 262,144 shades!). The display uses the SPI protocol for communication and has its own pixel-addressable frame buffer which means it can be used with all kinds of microcontroller and you only need 4 i/o pins. To complement the display, it also comes with an SD card slot on which colored bitmaps can be loaded and easily displayed on the screen.

The schematics for this project is fairly easy as the only thing we will be connecting to the Arduino is the display. Connect the display to the Arduino as shown in the schematics below.

Due to variation in display pin out from different manufacturers and for clarity, the pin connection between the Arduino and the TFT display is mapped out below:

We will use two libraries from Adafruit to help us easily communicate with the LCD. The libraries include the Adafruit GFX library which can be downloaded here and the Adafruit ST7735 Library which can be downloaded here.

We will use two example sketches to demonstrate the use of the ST7735 TFT display. The first example is the lightweight TFT Display text example sketch from the Adafruit TFT examples. It can be accessed by going to examples -> TFT -> Arduino -> TFTDisplaytext. This example displays the analog value of pin A0 on the display. It is one of the easiest examples that can be used to demonstrate the ability of this display.

The second example is the graphics test example from the more capable and heavier Adafruit ST7735 Arduino library. I will explain this particular example as it features the use of the display for diverse purposes including the display of text and “animated” graphics. With the Adafruit ST7735 library installed, this example can be accessed by going to examples -> Adafruit ST7735 library -> graphics test.

The first thing, as usual, is to include the libraries to be used after which we declare the pins on the Arduino to which our LCD pins are connected to. We also make a slight change to the code setting reset pin as pin 8 and DC pin as pin 9 to match our schematics.

Next, we create an object of the library with the pins to which the LCD is connected on the Arduino as parameters. There are two options for this, feel free to choose the most preferred.

Next, we move to the void setup function where we initialize the screen and call different test functions to display certain texts or images.  These functions can be edited to display what you want based on your project needs.

testdrawtext("Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Curabitur adipiscing ante sed nibh tincidunt feugiat. Maecenas enim massa, fringilla sed malesuada et, malesuada sit amet turpis. Sed porttitor neque ut ante pretium vitae malesuada nunc bibendum. Nullam aliquet ultrices massa eu hendrerit. Ut sed nisi lorem. In vestibulum purus a tortor imperdiet posuere. ", ST7735_WHITE);

Uploading the code to the Arduino board brings a flash of different shapes and text with different colors on the display. I captured one 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 as regards this project.

The 7-pin display modules do not need "just" SPI, but also CS (Chip Select), D/C (Data or Command), Reset, and optionally a PWM pin for controlling the backlight. As KurtE mentioned, this should work in theory, but the problem is existing library support. The CS pins need to be separate, but all can share the D/C and Reset pins (although you cannot then reset just one display; you can only reset them all if you need to). There is always the risk that the display modules don"t like sharing their lines among so many modules -- for example, if there are too many pull-up/down resistors in the lines, or even if the modules don"t like their D/C pins toggled when their CS is not selected.

The existing ST7735 libraries I looked at do not use a canvas, but send the pixel data resulting from drawing commands via SPI. Assuming 16-bit RGB color, each 128�128 frame needs 32768 bytes; 128�160 needs 40960 bytes. With a full canvas, it would be much easier to support the eight SPI displays, because then the SPI transfers could use DMA. If the library is the only one using that SPI bus, you could avoid the CS pin restrictions by reserving the hardware CS pin (i.e., keep it unused), and let the SPI library think it is using hardware CS pins, too.

There is at least one seller on eBay with RGB TFT display modules (of various sizes) that support I2c. These have some sort of microcontroller on board, and you can set different I2C addresses for each module, so you should be able to control several of these on the same I2C bus (without the I2C multiplexer). Instead of pixel data, you send the drawing or writing commands as text to the desired module, so no library per se is needed. They also cost about three or four times as much as the above 7-pin display modules.

There are up to 1.3" single-color OLED displays using the SSD1306 controller. I have the white ones, and I like them quite a bit. Make sure you look at the four-pin ones. In the yellow/blue models, the pixels near the top are yellow, and the rest are blue, on a black background. So, each pixel is always the same color if lit: monochrome. The larger ones (0.96" and 1.3") are 128�64, the smaller (0.91") are 128�32.

Use eight identical I2C displays, and an I2C multiplexer like Adafruit sells (or a cheap eBay clone). You only need minimal changes to the Adafruit SSD1306 library, to fully support the I2C multiplexer. This is because the library only communicates with the display at init and display times. At init time, all displays need to be initialized (a new constructor function, that takes the heights of the up to eight displays into account, and drops the splash). A new variant of the .display() method takes an additional parameter, to choose the display to be updated with the current canvas; you can even update the same canvas to multiple displays. You can also add helpers so that the canvas is easy to load from a 1024- or 512-byte (128�64 or 128�32 bit) raw binary file on a microSD card (say, using Paul"s SD library), in case you want to display nice pre-drawn icons, and optionally add text/lines/bars on top. Drawing/writing text to the canvas is done using Adafruit GFX library. There is only one canvas, but you can send it to any display or displays. (You can obviously also keep the icons in Flash, but there isn"t that much room there.)

I have a 128x128 ST7735 display that I"m driving with a Seeeduino Xiao (SAMD21). I"d like to draw static fuzz, of the type found on old televisions - i.e. random pixels or squares of black and white.

However this is just a prototype so if there are meaningful differences between ST7735 boards, I"d love to hear it. I"m struggling to imagine how the answer is going to differ depending on the board, but if it does then point me to the ones that"ll help (if similar cost in bulk: ~$1-4).

Similar with libraries... I"m not married to any library in particular. I"ve experimented with a couple, but most of the trials were with the Adafruit_GFX + Adafruit_ST7735.h

(EDIT: And going even further, I"m open to using a board with a different TFT driver if it helps, provided similar pricing and availability and drivers for the samd21.)

Another technique I plan to try next is write a bitmap image of pre-rendered static to the screen (since it seems to be faster than doing random() + drawing a pixel 128x128 times), then just use every spare cycle to write a random pixel. I"m guessing it will look a bit too static in appearance, but I"ll give it a try.

Due to the number of pixels, it would be a good idea to call an update for every two pixels. With a teensy 4 @ 600 Mhz, I have used the ST7735_t3 library.

The sparse docs (Getting Started with Seeed Studio XIAO SAMD21 - Seeed Wiki) seem to imply it has hardware SPI support, and I followed their pin recommendations. But perhaps this is another thing to dig into. I have another samd21 board (adafruit itsybitsy) with known hardware SPI support that I can try to rule out SPI issues.

I created a sketch for the Uno with a nameless 320x240 TFT display shield, ILI9341 controller, using the tft.writePixel (x,y,COLOR) instruction, combined with the random function.

I stick with the 105x105 resolution, it looks great, I would center that surface in the 128x128 px space, leaving a black or gray frame as the background

Actually I would like on my 320240 TFT bigger grains (22 blocks of pixels) creating the impression of random (pseudo)noise. That would imply the use of small bitmaps or some complicated stuff remembering previous positions of displayed pixels; I am not sure whether my Uno is fast enough to create a realistic effect. Any suggestion?

Unfortunately the SPI library is very basic, so you have to arm yourself with courage and try the use of two-dimensional matrices. The last sketch allows adjusting the pixel dimensions and reduces the call for color changes with this instruction for random change:

The cell phone camera is not synchronized to the speed with which the pixels appear on the screen, this generates a sloping cross band and an apparent increase in speed, which do not really exist in the TFT. Keep in mind that 128x128 = 16,384 pixels are drawn in each step

It is possible to "overclock" the ST7735 so that faster screen updates are then possible. The data sheet gives a 16MHz maximum but they work at 27MHz reliably and often at 40MHz.

The ESP32 manages 96fps when every pixel of the 128x128 display is updated per frame, not bad for a $5 processor board. This is at a 26.66MHz SPI clock, so the theoretical maximum is 102fps with no looping delays. This is clearly faster than an old TV frame rate so delays could be added, other code run or a lower SPI clock rate used.

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