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I2C is utterly helpless here; sometimes it appears on panels for configuring settings, or touch controller, stuff like that. It has far too little bandwidth to transfer video. (I"m not sure what displays are even available for video over I2C; probably just small character displays or the like?)

SPI is marginal at best. At a typical 10MHz maximum, it"s just passable for small e.g. 160x128x16bpp displays, capable of a full refresh at maybe 20 FPS. A bigger panel might support up to 50MHz, but even with quad channel (QSPI) it"s going to be a stretch.

Your panel is digital RGB, which requires an external controller (framebuffer, addressing, sync generation, etc.). Some micros have this internal, e.g. STM32F417 I think. Note that sharing video and system RAM (you likely need to add an external SDRAM) will have some performance impact on the CPU; don"t expect the world out of it. (Probably still enough to run Doom, for point of reference.

You can get standalone controllers for these. I"ve played with one before, though the board I made doesn"t quite match your panel"s pinout, so you"d have to make an adapter cable to use it; but I do have spares if you"re interested, and are able to solder SMTs (it"s about 50 components, the most difficult being a 0.4mm pitch TQFP, or a no-lead; hot air or oven reflow is required). It uses an Epson S1D13517F00A100, a... fairly pricey (and, apparently out of stock right now..) controller, which presents a parallel 8/16 bit interface. Would be a good match to an STM32 parallel port, or even FSMC.

The SparkFun TFT LCD Breakout is a versatile, colorful, and easy way to experiment with graphics or create a user interface for your project. With a 4-wire SPI interface and microSD card holder, you can use this breakout to easily add visual display/interface capabilities to a project as well as providing all the storage you might need for multimedia files.

To get started with this breakout, you will need an Arduino compatible microcontroller of your choice - we recommend something with extra RAM like the SparkFun Thing Plus. The breakout can be powered with either 5V or 3.3V. The microSD card holder is connected to the same SPI bus as the display which keeps the required pin count low and exists to relieve the burden from your microcontroller"s poor memory due to having to store hundreds of images of cats, or really whatever you want to keep there. We have also gone ahead and tricked out the SparkFun HyperDisplay library with a driver made especially for this breakout!

Out of the box, the SparkFun TFT LCD Breakout will come with a large backing PCB that makes it easy to securely mount the display in a project. If you need a more flexible solution you can remove the display module, snap off half the backing board, and then re-insert the display module. When this is done you"ll be left with the bare minimum frame around the display to more seamlessly integrate with your project.

HY-TFT320 is a 3.2 inch TFT LCD Screen module, 320*240 (resolution), 65K color, 34pins interface , not just a LCD breakout, but include the Touch screen, SD card. So it’s a powerful extension module for your project.

This Screen includes a controller SSD1289, it’s 16bit data interface, easy to drive by many MCU like STM32 ,AVR and 8051.HY-TFT320 is designed with a touch controller in it . The touch IC is XPT2046 , and touch interface is included in the 34 pins breakout. Another useful extension in this module is the SD Card socket . It use the SPI mode to operate the SD card, the SPI interface include in the 40pins breakout.

The UTFT library is required to be installed to get this screen model display. This library is especially designed for 3.2” TFT LCD screen using 16 bit mode. The library require the following connections.

Note: The TFT controller model needs to be declared in the initializing statement. ITDB02 myGLCD(38,39,40,41) needs to be modified as myGLCD(38,39,40,41,ITDB32S) when using Arduino Mega2560.ITDB02 myGLCD(19,18,17,16,ITDB32S) needs to be commented when using Aduino UNO. Otherwise it just show a blank screen. In practice, RS, WR, CS, RSET can be connected to any free pin. But the pin number must be in accord with myGLCD(RS,WR,CS,RST).

The LCD has a 3.2" 4-wire resistive touch screen lying over it. The Touch libraryneeds to be installed to get it works. This library is designed for 2.4’’ TFT, 3.2” TFT LCD screen module.

The default setting is accurate for 2.4” TFT module, but you need to calibrate when using 3.2” TFT module. A program to calibrate the touch screen is included in the example. If you touch screen is inaccurate, you need to run touch_calibration. Follow the on-screen instruction to calibrate the touch screen. Better not use your finger to calibrate it, use your accessory touch pen to pressure the frontsight with stength. Then record the calibration parameters and apply them in ITDB02_Touch.cpp in your touch screen library.

There is built-in SD card slot in the shield, so we can use it to upload images. But the images need to be converted RAW format first. SD libraries tinyFAT and tinyFAT_16 need to be preinstalled for displaying the image.

This is a third release of combined soldering iron controller for Hakko T12 tips and 858D rework station based on STM32 micro controller. This time the oled display was replaced by ili9341 TFT one with SPI interface. There are several display variants (2.2", 2.4", 2.8" or 3.2") in the market, so you can chose the one that satisfies your requirements, I used 2.2" display. The touch screen feature is not used in this project, but you can use display with touch screen panel.

The soldering controller supports using soldering iron and Hot Air Gun at the same time. In the main mode, you can activate any device or activate both devices simultaneously or turn them off. As soosn as the display resolution is higher than oled display, the information of both devices can be displayed on the main screen.

Before updating the firmware, save the PID parameters if you have modified them. The landscape orientation is still the default. Some issues can be faced in the portrait display mode. Report them to be fixed.

This project has several features:The controller allows managing Hot Air Gun and soldering iron independently. Two independednt rotary encoders simplifies this type of managing devices. The reed switch of the Hakko 858D Hot Air Gun handle used to activate rework capability.

To decrease the controller price and increase its reusability, the complete schematics was split in 3 separate PCBs. The main PCB conntains the main low-voltage components: stm32 blackpill board, op-amps, voltage dc-dc converter and regulator, mosfets that manage the soldering iron and Hot Air Gun fan. The AC power PCB contains the high-voltage part of the project: the triac, optional high-voltage relay and opto-couplers that creates galvanic isolation from the main board. These boards connected via 5-wire interface cable. The display PCB contains the TFT display and two rotary encoders.

JP11 is a optional DIP-type connector for SD-card reader on the TFT display. This connector is used to load external files to the SPI flash memory IC. Just solder the pin-header here.

Thehigh-voltage pcb is also available in EasyEdasite. The schematics contains the TRIAC and opto-coipler modules allowing to isolate the board from low-voltage part of the project.

The schematics of the board is very simple. It contains two rotary encoders and TFT display. Also, you can see the mosfet that manages the TFT display brightness.

The controller requires big size PCB to fit all the components so it is convenient to create the display separate board. Also, It is convenient to solder rotary encoders to the display board and use encoder neck to fix this board on the acrylic front panel.

This controller is working with ili9341 based TFT displays only. You can select the display size (2.2", 2.4", 2.8" or 3.2"). The display has sufficient resolution 320x240 to show required information. I used the 2.2" one to fit the case.

This feature increases the safety of soldering iron. There are two automatic power-off features are implemented inside the controller, software driven and hardware driven. The hardware driven one requires optional TILT or REED switch installed in the iron handle. In the software mode, the controller turns on the Idle mode if the supplied power to the iron is stable for a while. In this case, the controller will power off the iron in specified timeout. When the time to automatic shutdown near, it will be displayed as a seconds remaining. When you use the iron, the supplied power changes and the controller resets the automatic power off timeout.

To use the hardware TILT switch, you must setup automatic power off timeout and standby temperature. If the standby temperature is "OFF" the hardware tilt switch will not be used and software solution described previously will be activated. Also, you can setup standby time (timeout to switch to low power mode). When the tilt switch enabled, the main working mode changes the following way. The iron is starting heating. When it reaches the preset temperature the "Ready" message will be displayed and the controller will keep the preset temperature. If the soldering IRON is not used (laying on the table) the controller will switch low power mode. If the iron keep laying for automatic off timeout, the controller will switch off the power completely. As soon as you start using the iron, the controller restores the preset temperature.

The main component is the BlackPill board. You can use the pure STM32F401CCU6 micro controller if you wish to create compact variant of the soldering station.

Connect this DC-DC converter consequently with b0505 isolated cobverter: 24v -> MP1584 DC-DC converter -> b0505 -> ams1117 gnd you get isolated power supply for your stm32 micro controller. This king of power supply is isolated and low-noise power that ensure accurate ADC temperature readings.

This project is based on the BlackPill board with STM32F401CCU6 micro controller. To flash prebuilt firmware to the controller the st link v2 programmer and ST link utility are required.

Download the STM32 ST-LINK utility fromstsite. Install the utility in your system. Launch the ST-LINK utility, connect the programmer to the 4pins SWD interface of BlackPill board, press "connect" button. The main window should display the memory content of the BlackPill board. Press flash button to write the firmaware to the BlackPill board.

As you can see, the main AC power after fuse that can be installed on the pannel of the case, goes into JP3 socket on the high voltage board. You can connect main power switch to the JP6 socket or short it oins and completely remove main switch if do not like to use it. JP4 and JP2 sockets are used to connect to the GX16-8 connector of the Hot Air Gun. The power to the heater goes from JP4 socket and all other wires connected to the JP2. Earth ground should be connected to the Earth ground of AC power (not shown here). JP8 and JP9 connectors should be connected together. Soldering Iron GX12-5 connector should be connected to JP1 and JP5 sockets. JP10 used to connect optional automatic mode switch. Using this switch you can disconnect the Hot Air Gun completely from the controller when it is not needed. JP3 should be connected to the J1 connector on the TFT board. This is 14-wires connector to attach the display and rotary encoders.

Using JP11 you can connect the SD-CARD installed on TFT display to the controller when going to upload some files from SD-CARD to SPI FLASH. For instance, it can be used whel upload localization data files.

To simplify controller tuning procedure, the tune modes are implemented in the controller. This modes can be activated from the system menu item "tune iron" or "gun menu->tune gun". When the tune mode is activated, the controller powers on the iron or Hot Air Gun and displays on the screen applied power (in percents) and the gauge of the current temperature readings. The gauge has a label "450" or "500" depending on what hardware you are tuning. When the gauge reaches this label, the temperature should be 450 or 500 degrees of Celsius.

As soon as you have stabilized the iron temperature near 450 degrees, rotate the 500k potentiometer trim to shift gauge bar on the display left or right. Adjust the potentiometer so the bar would be as near to the reference temperature as possible. Then long press the encoder handle (for about 2 seconds) to turn the iron off and finish the procedure. It is recommended to use the thick tip that produce the highest voltage when performing the tune procedure. For example, T12-K, T12-D52 or similar.

As you can see from the picture above, the debug screen shows the following information:iron status (off or on). You can manage the power supplied to the soldering iron by rotating the upper encoder. As the encoder rotated, you adjust the power supplied to the iron (in internal units). The more power supplied to the iron the faster it heats. Supplied power value displayied in the right column ("irnP") in the internal units.

If the SPI FLASH is formatted and working correctly, you should see the screen above. As you can see, it is the root directory list of SPI FLASH. In case of FLASH error, the error message would be displayed indicating the FLASH is not readable. If your SPI FLASH is unformatted, the corresponding message would be displayed and the controller asks you to confirm the FLASH should be formatted. When the FLASH will be formatted, you should see the empty file list.

The current tip can be calibrated using "calibrate tip" menu item. If the tip is not calibrated yet, the "[!]" sign would be displayed near the tip name on the main screen. There are two calibration modes in the current version of the controller firmware: automatic and manual.

The progress bar in the lower part of the display shows the difference between preset and current temperature (in internal units) of the tip. The controller keeps the tip temperature near the preset value (vertical line on the progress bar) all the time. To increment the preset temperature, turn the encoder right, to decrease - turn it left.

When the low power (standby) mode activated, the controller shows the "standby" icon in the upper-right corner of the display lie shown on the picture below.

The "tune iron PID" and "gun setup->tune gun PID" menu items in the main menu allowing tuning PID parameters of soldering iron and Hot Air Gun. When tune PID mode activated, you can see three values of PID parameters on the display, Kp - proportional, Ki - integral, Kd - differential. First, choose the parameter you are going to change and press the encoder button. You turn into tuning test mode. There are two graphs: the temperature difference and power math dispersion. Both graphs are auto magnifying ones and its maximum value is shown on the Y-axis by the corresponding color.

Prebuilt version of the controller software can be downloaded from the github repository. To upload this hex file into controller, you can use stm32 st-linkutility.

My firiend Armindo translated all messages to Portugeese, so the project hast two additional languages: Russian and Portugeese. The binary font ubuntu_we.font contains ASCII and Western Europe characters including Greek symbols. You can use this font for your language if you are speaking on one of the european language. To do this, you have to add new line tocfg.jsonfile and create new message file.

In order to use your native language, the NLS data should be uploaded into SPI FLASH. To do so, you have to:Connect your SD-CARD reader (the TFT display board has one) to the JP11 connector via 4 wires: SD_CS (Chip Select), MOSI, MISO, SCK. If you have not implemet the JP11 socket, remember following: SD_CS (Chip Select) - PB12, MOSI - PB15, MISO - PB14, SCK - PB10.

(2) Copy the dependent libraries in the Install libraries directory in the package (shown below) to the libraries folder of the Arduino project directory (the default Arduino project directory is C:\Users\Administrator\ Documents\Arduino\libraries).

After the program is downloaded, run it directly and observe the running status. If it can be displayed normally, the program runs successfully, as shown in the following figure (take the colligate_test test program as an example):

Let us start with the basics first; refresh the knowledge about TN and LCD displays in general, later we will talk about TFTs (Thin Film Transistors), how they differ from regular monochrome LCD displays. Then we will go on to the ghosting effect, so we will not only discuss the technology behind the construction of the TFT, but also some phenomena, like the ghosting effect, or grayscale inversion, that are important to understand when using an LCD TFT display.

Next, we will look at different technologies of the TFT LCD displays like TN, IPS, VA, and of course about transmissive and transflective LCD displays, because TFT displays also can be transmissive and transflective. In the last part we will talk about backlight.

Let us start with a short review of the most basic liquid crystal cell, which is the TN (twisted nematic) display. On the picture above, we can see that the light can be transmit through the cell or blocked by the liquid crystal cell using voltage. If you want to learn more about monochrome LCD displays and the basics of LCD displays, follow this link.

What is a TFT LCD display and how it is different from a monochrome LCD display? TFT is called an active display. Active, means we have one or more transistors in every cell, in every pixel and in every subpixel. TFT stands for Thin Film Transistor, transistors that are very small and very thin and are built into the pixel, so they are not somewhere outside in a controller, but they are in the pixel itself. For example, in a 55-inch TV set, the TFT display contains millions of transistors in the pixels. We do not see them, because they are very small and hidden, if we zoom in, however, we can see them in every corner of each pixel, like on the picture below.

On the picture above we can see subpixels, that are basic RGB (Red, Green, Blue) colors and a black part, with the transistors and electronic circuits. We just need to know that we have pixels, and subpixels, and each subpixel has transistors. This makes the display active, and thus is called  the TFT display. TFT displays are usually color displays, but there are also monochrome TFT displays, that are active, and have transistors, but have no colors. The colors in the TFT LCD display are typically added by color filters on each subpixel. Usually the filters are RGB, but we also have RGBW (Red, Green, Blue, White) LCD displays with added subpixels without the filter (White) to make the display brighter.

Going a little bit deeper, into the TFT cell, there is a part inside well known to us from the monochrome LCD display Riverdi University lecture. We have a cell, liquid crystal, polarizers, an ITO (Indium Tin Oxide) layer for the electrodes, and additionally an electronic circuit. Usually, the electronic circuit consists of one transistor and some capacitors to sustain the pixel state when we switch the pixel OFF and ON. In a TFT LCD display the pixels are much more complicated because apart from building the liquid crystal part, we also need to build an electronic part.

That is why TFT LCD display technologies are very expensive to manufacture. If you are familiar with electronics, you know that the transistor is a kind of switch, and it allows us to switch the pixel ON and OFF. Because it is built into the pixel itself, it can be done very quickly and be very well controlled. We can control the exact state of every pixel not only the ON and OFF states, but also all the states in between. We can switch the light of the cells ON and OFF in several steps. Usually for TFT LCD displays it will be 8-bit steps per color, so we have 256 steps of brightness for every color, and every subpixel. Because we have three subpixels, we have a 24-bit color range, that means over 16 million combinations, we can, at least theoretically, show on our TFT LCD display over 16 million distinct colors using RGB pixels.

Now that we know how the TFT LCD display works, we can now learn some practical things one of which is LCD TFT ghosting. We know how the image is created, but what happens when we have the image on the screen for a prolonged time, and how to prevent it. In LCD displays we have something called LCD ghosting. We do not see it very often, but in some displays this phenomenon still exists.

If some elements of the picture i.e., your company logo is in the same place of the screen for a long period of time, for couple of weeks, months or a year, the crystals will memorize the state and later, when we change the image, we may see some ghosting of those elements. It really depends on many conditions like temperature and even the screen image that we display on the screen for longer periods of time. When you build your application, you can use some techniques to avoid it, like very rapid contrast change and of course to avoid the positioning the same image in the same position for a longer time.

You may have seen this phenomenon already as it is common in every display technology, and even companies like Apple put information on their websites, that users may encounter this phenomenon and how to fix it. It is called image ghosting or image persistence, and even Retina displays are not free of it.

Another issue present in TFT displays, especially TN LCD displays, is grayscale inversion. This is a phenomenon that changes the colors of the screen according to the viewing angle, and it is only one-sided. When buying a TFT LCD display, first we need to check what kind of technology it is. If it is an IPS display, like the Riverdi IPS display line, then we do not need to worry about the grayscale inversion because all the viewing angles will be the same and all of them will be very high, like 80, 85, or 89 degrees. But if you buy a more common or older display technology type, like the TN (twisted nematic) display, you need to think where it will be used, because one viewing angle will be out. It may be sometimes confusing, and you need to be careful as most factories define viewing direction of the screen and mistake this with the greyscale inversion side.

On the picture above, you can see further explanation of the grayscale inversion from Wikipedia. It says that some early panels and also nowadays TN displays, have grayscale inversion not necessary up-down, but it can be any angle, you need to check in the datasheet. The reason technologies like IPS (In-Plane Switching), used in the latest Riverdi displays, or VA, were developed, was to avoid this phenomenon. Also, we do not want to brag, but the Wikipedia definition references our website.

We know already that TN (twisted nematic) displays, suffer from grayscale inversion, which means the display has one viewing side, where the image color suddenly changes. It is tricky, and you need to be careful. On the picture above there is a part of the LCD TFT specification of a TN (twisted nematic) display, that has grayscale inversion, and if we go to this table, we can see the viewing angles. They are defined at 70, 70, 60 and 70 degrees, that is the maximum viewing angle, at which the user can see the image. Normally we may think that 70 degrees is better, so we will choose left and right side to be 70 degrees, and then up and down, and if we do not know the grayscale inversion phenomena, we may put our user on the bottom side which is also 70 degrees. The viewing direction will be then like a 6 o’clock direction, so we call it a 6 o’clock display. But you need to be careful! Looking at the specification, we can see that this display was defined as a 12 o’clock display, so it is best for it to be seen from a 12 o’clock direction. But we can find that the 12 o’clock has a lower viewing angle – 60 degrees. What does it mean? It means that on this side there will be no grayscale inversion. If we go to 40, 50, 60 degrees and even a little bit more, probably we will still see the image properly. Maybe with lower contrast, but the colors will not change. If we go from the bottom, from a 6 o’clock direction where we have the grayscale inversion, after 70 degrees or lower we will see a sudden color change, and of course this is something we want to avoid.

To summarize, when you buy older technology like TN and displays, which are still very popular, and Riverdi is selling them as well, you need to be careful where you put your display. If it is a handheld device, you will see the display from the bottom, but if you put it on a wall, you will see the display from the top, so you need to define it during the design phase, because later it is usually impossible or expensive to change the direction.

We will talk now about the other TFT technologies, that allow us to have wider viewing angles and more vivid colors. The most basic technology for monochrome and TFT LCD displays is twisted nematic (TN). As we already know, this kind of displays have a problem with grayscale inversion. On one side we have a higher retardation and will not get a clear image. That is why we have other technologies like VA (Vertical Alignment), where the liquid crystal is differently organized, and another variation of the TFT technology – IPS which is In-Plane Switching. The VA and IPS LCD displays do not have a problem with the viewing angles, you can see a clear image from all sides.

Apart from the different organization of the liquid crystals, we also organize subpixels a little bit differently in a VA and IPS LCD displays. When we look closer at the TN display, we will just see the subpixels with color filters. If we look at the VA or IPS display they will have subpixels of subpixels. The subpixels are divided into smaller parts. In this way we can achieve even wider viewing angles and better colors for the user, but of course, it is more complicated and more expensive to do.

The picture above presents the TN display and grayscale inversion. For IPS or VA technology there is no such effect. The picture will be the same from all the sides we look so these technologies are popular where we need wide viewing angles, and TN is popular where we don’t need that, like in monitors. Other advantages of IPS LCD displays are they give accurate colors, and wide viewing angles. What is also important in practice, in our projects, is that the IPS LCD displays are less susceptible to mechanical force. When we apply mechanical force to the screen, and have an optically bonded touch screen, we push the display as well as squeeze the cells. When we have a TN display, every push on the cell changes the image suddenly, with the IPS LCD displays with in-plane switching, different liquid crystals organization, this effect is lesser. It is not completely removed but it is much less distinct. That is another reason IPS displays are very popular for smartphones, tablets, when we have the touchscreens usually optically bonded.

If we wanted to talk about disadvantages, there is a question mark over it, as some of them may be true, some of them do not rely on real cases, what kind of display, what kind of technology is it. Sometimes the IPS displays can have higher power consumption than others, in many cases however, not. They can be more expensive, but not necessarily. The new IPS panels can cost like TN panels, but IPS panels definitely have a longer response time. Again, it is not a rule, you can make IPS panels that are very fast, faster than TN panels, but if you want the fastest possible display, probably the TN panel will be the fastest. That is why the TN technology is still popular on the gaming market. Of course, you can find a lot of discussions on the internet, which technology is better, but it really depends on what you want to achieve.

Now, let us look at the backlight types. As we see here, on the picture above, we have four distinct types of backlight possible. The most common, 95 or 99 per cent of the TFT LCD displays on the market are the transmissive LCD display type, where we need the backlight from the back. If you remember from our Monochrome LCD Displays lecture, for transmissive LCD displays you need the backlight to be always on. If you switch the backlight off, you will not see anything. The same as for monochrome LCD displays, but less popular for TFT displays, we have the transflective LCD display type. They are not popular because usually for transflective TFT displays, the colors lack in brightness, and the displays are not very practical to use. You can see the screen, but the application is limited. Some transflective LCD displays are used by military, in applications where power consumption is paramount; where you can switch the backlight off and you agree to have lower image quality but still see the image. Power consumption and saving energy is most important in some kind of applications and you can use transflective LCD displays there. The reflective type of LCD displays are almost never used in TFT. There is one technology called Low Power Reflective Displays (LPRD) that is used in TFT but it is not popular. Lastly, we have a variation of reflective displays with frontlight, where we add frontlight to the reflective display and have the image even without external light.

Just a few words about Low Power Reflective Displays (LPRD). This kind of display uses environmental light, ambient light to reflect, and produce some colors. The colors are not perfect, not perfectly clear, but this technology is becoming increasingly popular because it allows to have color displays in battery powered applications. For example, a smartwatch would be a case for that technology, or an electrical bike or scooter, where we can not only have a standard monochrome LCD display but also a TFT LCD color display without the backlight; we can see the image even in

strong sunlight and not need backlight at all. So, this kind of TFL LCD display technology is getting more and more popular when we have outdoor LCD displays and need a low power consumption.

On the picture above, we have some examples of how transmissive and reflective LCD displays work in the sunlight. If we have a simple image, like a black and white pattern, then on a transmissive LCD display, even with 1000 candela brightness, the image probably will be lower quality than for a reflective LCD display; if we have sunlight, we have very strong light reflections on the surface of the screen. We have talked about contrast in more detail in the lecture Sunlight Readable Displays. So, reflective LCD displays are a better solution for outdoor applications than transmissive LCD displays, where you need a really strong backlight, 1000 candela or more, to be really seen outdoors.

To show you how the backlight of LCD displays is built, we took the picture above. You can see the edge backlight there, where we have LEDs here on the small PCB on the edge, and we have a diffuser that distributes the light to the whole surface of LCD screen.

In addition to the backlight, we have something that is called a frontlight. It is similar to backlight, it also uses the LEDs to put the light into it, but the frontlight needs to be transparent as we have the display behind. On the example on the picture above we can see an e-paper display. The e-paper display is also a TFT display variation, but it is not LCD (liquid crystal), it is a different technology, but the back of the display is the same and it is reflective. The example you see is the Kindle 4 eBook reader. It uses an e-paper display and a frontlight as well, so you can read eBooks even during the night.

It is a 2.0 inch TFT display module.TFT liquid crystal has a semiconductor switch for each pixel,and each pixel can be directly controlled by dot pulses,so each node is relatively independent and can be continuous...

I buy the “3.5 LCD CTP” variant here 2.4/2.8/3.5 inch TFT LCD 40PIN Socket Capacitive Resistive Touch Display Screen ILI9488 ILI9341 R61529 Controller 0.5 MM spacing|LCD Modules| - AliExpress and it works well for me. So far got 30, in a few orders and all worked as expected. ILI9488, and capacitive touch (don’t remember the exact chip but can look up).

Another good source, but slightly more expensive is buydisplay.com, which is a stable source and comes with good documentation. You can buy bare panel or one which is mounted on its own PCB which is easier to connect by more bulky. You can find exact ICs as the one above I mentioned.

ER-TFTM035-6 is 3.5"tft lcd module display with ILI9488 controller,adaptor/breadkout board,optional resisitive touch panel,memory chip or card,font chip.

ER-TFT035-6 is 3.5 tft lcd module display in 320x480 resolution with parallel and serial spi interface.Optional touch panel.Idea for arduino,stm32,avr,8051.

This is the schematic of my project which uses 8 bit parallel interface and a bare panel. The selection of the interface is done via the IM0, IM1, IM2 pins of the TFT and it supports other interfaces such as 16 bit parallel (faster) or SPI (slower).