tiny core linux tft display free sample

It is not a complete desktop nor is all hardware completely supported. It represents only the core needed to boot into a very minimal X desktop typically with wired internet access.

Our goal is the creation of a nomadic ultra small graphical desktop operating system capable of booting from cdrom, pendrive, or frugally from a hard drive. The desktop boots extremely fast and is able to support additional applications and hardware of the users choice. While Tiny Core always resides in ram, additional applications extensions can either reside in ram, mounted from a persistent storage device, or installed into a persistent storage device.

We invite interested users and developers to explore Tiny Core. Within our forums we have an open developement model. We encourage shared knowledge. We promote community involvement and community built application extensions. Anyone can contribute to our project by packaging their favorite application or hardware support to run in Tiny Core. The Tiny Core Linux Team currently consists of eight members who peruse the forums to assist from answering questions to helping package new extensions.

A set of tools that can do recording of videos and playback, simple cut-and-paste editing and the MPEG compression of audio and video under Linux, development files.

for those who like to use it, I share the file. The only disadvantage of this simple application is that there is no possibility to use different resolution for each display. It is only duplicator of fb0 to fb1, means that only VGA resolution may be used for HDMI display to have it reasonably visible on the small TFT. It need to have rpi-videocore.tcz to be installed.

2010/6/19Xianwen Chen (xianwen.chen at gmail dot com)CurlFtpFS is a filesystem for accessing FTP hosts based on FUSE and libcurl.0.9.2-tinycore69.6 KCurlFtpFS.tcz

2011/02/02jls_legalizea tiny library designed to interpret limited Small programs compiled by the included compiler, embryo_cc. dev files1.0.020.5 Kembryo-dev.tcz

2011/03/10gutmenschAccelerated graphics support for Intel embedded chips (GMA500, PowerVR, Poulsbo)2.6.33.3-tinycore208.9 Kiegd-emgd-2.6.33.3-tinycore.tcz

2010/12/12Arslan S.A library to take advantage of multi-core processor performance without having to be a threading expert, development files.3.0_20101110245.8 Kintel-tbb-dev.tcz

2010/12/12Arslan S.A library to take advantage of multi-core processor performance without having to be a threading expert.3.0_20101110249.9 Kintel-tbb.tcz

2010/05/13Arslan S.A Clutter based GTK+ widget to display rich, eye-candy and interactive maps, documentation package.0.4.5127.0 Klibchamplain-doc.tcz

2010/12/07Arslan S.A set of tools that can do recording of videos and playback, simple cut-and-paste editing and the MPEG compression of audio and video under Linux, development files.1.9.0389.1 Kmjpegtools-dev.tcz

2010/12/07Arslan S.A set of tools that can do recording of videos and playback, simple cut-and-paste editing and the MPEG compression of audio and video under Linux.1.9.0901.1 Kmjpegtools.tcz

2010/04/11jls_legalize (unsenepopiu at tin dot it)allows you to create bootable Live USB drives for a variety of Linux distributions429303.1 Kunetbootin.tcz

2011/08/07Arslan S.A Powerful x86 virtualization solution, guest additions kernel modules.4.1.094.2 Kvirtualbox-ose-additions-modules-2.6.33.3-tinycore.tcz

2010/11/25jls_legalize (unsenepopiu at tin dot it), Arslan S.Display Gtk+ dialog boxes from command line and shell scripts, locale files.2.32.12.9 Mzenity-locale.tcz

A general-purpose microprocessor portfolio enabling easy development for a broad range of applications, the STM32MP1 series is based on a heterogeneous single or dual Arm Cortex-A7 and Cortex-M4 cores architecture, strengthening its ability to support multiple and flexible applications, achieving the best performance and power figures at any time. The Cortex-A7 core provides access to open-source operating systems (Linux/Android) while the Cortex-M4 core leverages the STM32 MCU ecosystem.

The STM32MP1 comes with many benefits including a rich development ecosystem: Mainlined open-source Linux distribution with Android support available via partners

When developing for the Arm® Cortex®-A7 core, ST helps eliminate potential roadblocks through the development of its mainlined open-source OpenSTLinux Distribution to ensure that porting application software is fast and easy.

The single or dual Cortex-A7 cores are dedicated to open-source operating systems while the Cortex-M4 core is dedicated to real-time and low-power tasks. Dual Cortex®-A7 cores running at 800 MHz 32-Kbyte L1 Instruction cache

The Cortex-M4 core benefits from an embedded SRAM (448 Kbytes) to run purely deterministic code. For instance, a customer currently using an STM32 MCU based on STM32Cube firmware, could transparently fully re-use his code on the Cortex-M4 core’s 448 Kbytes of SRAM, and add the Linux application (for instance an HMI) running on the Cortex-A7 core(s).

Power efficiency Dynamic efficiency: the Cortex-A7 and Cortex-M4 cores can be run or stopped independently to achieve the best power efficiency for each processing and real-time application requirement.

The STM32MP1 series is available in 3 different lines which are pin-to-pin compatible: STM32MP157: Dual Cortex-A7 cores up to @ 800 MHz, Cortex-M4 core @ 209 MHz, 3D GPU, DSI display interface and CAN FD

An excellent new compatible library is available which can render TrueType fonts on a TFT screen (or into a sprite). This has been developed by takkaO and is available here. I have been reluctant to support yet another font format but this is an amazing library which is very easy to use. It provides access to compact font files, with fully scaleable anti-aliased glyphs. Left, middle and right justified text can also be printed to the screen. I have added TFT_eSPI specific examples to the OpenFontRender library and tested on RP2040 and ESP32 processors. Here is a demo screen where a single 12kbyte font file binary was used to render fully anti-aliased glyphs of gradually increasing size on a 320x480 TFT screen:

The TFT configuration (user setup) can now be included inside an Arduino IDE sketch providing the instructions in the example Generic->Sketch_with_tft_setup are followed. See ReadMe tab in that sketch for the instructions. If the setup is not in the sketch then the library settings will be used. This means that "per project" configurations are possible without modifying the library setup files. Please note that ALL the other examples in the library will use the library settings unless they are adapted and the "tft_setup.h" header file included. Note: there are issues with this approach, #2007 proposes an alternative method.

Support has been added in v2.4.70 for the RP2040 with 16 bit parallel displays. This has been tested and the screen update performance is very good (4ms to clear 320 x 480 screen with HC8357C). The use of the RP2040 PIO makes it easy to change the write cycle timing for different displays. DMA with 16 bit transfers is also supported.

Smooth fonts can now be rendered direct to the TFT with very little flicker for quickly changing values. This is achieved by a line-by-line and block-by-block update of the glyph area without drawing pixels twice. This is a "breaking" change for some sketches because a new true/false parameter is needed to render the background. The default is false if the parameter is missing, Examples:

New anti-aliased graphics functions to draw lines, wedge shaped lines, circles and rounded rectangles. Examples are included. Examples have also been added to display PNG compressed images (note: requires ~40kbytes RAM).

Frank Boesing has created an extension library for TFT_eSPI that allows a large range of ready-built fonts to be used. Frank"s library (adapted to permit rendering in sprites as well as TFT) can be downloaded here. More than 3300 additional Fonts are available here. The TFT_eSPI_ext library contains examples that demonstrate the use of the fonts.

Users of PowerPoint experienced with running macros may be interested in the pptm sketch generator here, this converts graphics and tables drawn in PowerPoint slides into an Arduino sketch that renders the graphics on a 480x320 TFT. This is based on VB macros created by Kris Kasprzak here.

The RP2040 8 bit parallel interface uses the PIO. The PIO now manages the "setWindow" and "block fill" actions, releasing the processor for other tasks when areas of the screen are being filled with a colour. The PIO can optionally be used for SPI interface displays if #define RP2040_PIO_SPI is put in the setup file. Touch screens and pixel read operations are not supported when the PIO interface is used.

DMA can now be used with the Raspberry Pi Pico (RP2040) when used with both 8 bit parallel and 16 bit colour SPI displays. See "Bouncy_Circles" sketch.

The library now supports the Raspberry Pi Pico with both the official Arduino board package and the one provided by Earle Philhower. The setup file "Setup60_RP2040_ILI9341.h" has been used for tests with an ILI9341 display. At the moment only SPI interface displays have been tested. SPI port 0 is the default but SPI port 1 can be specifed in the setup file if those SPI pins are used.

The library now provides a "viewport" capability. See "Viewport_Demo" and "Viewport_graphicstest" examples. When a viewport is defined graphics will only appear within that window. The coordinate datum by default moves to the top left corner of the viewport, but can optionally remain at top left corner of TFT. The GUIslice library will make use of this feature to speed up the rendering of GUI objects (see #769).

An Arduino IDE compatible graphics and fonts library for 32 bit processors. The library is targeted at 32 bit processors, it has been performance optimised for STM32, ESP8266 and ESP32 types. The library can be loaded using the Arduino IDE"s Library Manager. Direct Memory Access (DMA) can be used with the ESP32, RP2040 and STM32 processors with SPI interface displays to improve rendering performance. DMA with a parallel interface is only supported with the RP2040.

For other processors the generic only SPI interface displays are supported and slower non-optimised standard Arduino SPI functions are used by the library.

"Four wire" SPI and 8 bit parallel interfaces are supported. Due to lack of GPIO pins the 8 bit parallel interface is NOT supported on the ESP8266. 8 bit parallel interface TFTs (e.g. UNO format mcufriend shields) can used with the STM32 Nucleo 64/144 range or the UNO format ESP32 (see below for ESP32).

The library supports some TFT displays designed for the Raspberry Pi (RPi) that are based on a ILI9486 or ST7796 driver chip with a 480 x 320 pixel screen. The ILI9486 RPi display must be of the Waveshare design and use a 16 bit serial interface based on the 74HC04, 74HC4040 and 2 x 74HC4094 logic chips. Note that due to design variations between these displays not all RPi displays will work with this library, so purchasing a RPi display of these types solely for use with this library is not recommended.

A "good" RPi display is the MHS-4.0 inch Display-B type ST7796 which provides good performance. This has a dedicated controller and can be clocked at up to 80MHz with the ESP32 (55MHz with STM32 and 40MHz with ESP8266). The MHS-3.5 inch RPi ILI9486 based display is also supported.

Some displays permit the internal TFT screen RAM to be read, a few of the examples use this feature. The TFT_Screen_Capture example allows full screens to be captured and sent to a PC, this is handy to create program documentation.

The library supports Waveshare 2 and 3 colour ePaper displays using full frame buffers. This addition is relatively immature and thus only one example has been provided.

The library includes a "Sprite" class, this enables flicker free updates of complex graphics. Direct writes to the TFT with graphics functions are still available, so existing sketches do not need to be changed.

The "Animated_dial" example shows how dials can be created using a rotated Sprite for the needle. To run this example the TFT interface must support reading from the screen RAM (not all do). The dial rim and scale is a jpeg image, created using a paint program.

The XPT2046 touch screen controller is supported for SPI based displays only. The SPI bus for the touch controller is shared with the TFT and only an additional chip select line is needed. This support will eventually be deprecated when a suitable touch screen library is available.

The library supports SPI overlap on the ESP8266 so the TFT screen can share MOSI, MISO and SCLK pins with the program FLASH, this frees up GPIO pins for other uses. Only one SPI device can be connected to the FLASH pins and the chips select for the TFT must be on pin D3 (GPIO0).

Configuration of the library font selections, pins used to interface with the TFT and other features is made by editing the User_Setup.h file in the library folder, or by selecting your own configuration in the "User_Setup_Selet,h" file. Fonts and features can easily be enabled/disabled by commenting out lines.

It would be possible to compress the vlw font files but the rendering performance to a TFT is still good when storing the font file(s) in SPIFFS, LittleFS or FLASH arrays.

Anti-aliased fonts can also be drawn over a gradient background with a callback to fetch the background colour of each pixel. This pixel colour can be set by the gradient algorithm or by reading back the TFT screen memory (if reading the display is supported).

The common 8 bit "Mcufriend" shields are supported for the STM Nucleo 64/144 boards and ESP32 UNO style board. The STM32 "Blue/Black Pill" boards can also be used with 8 bit parallel displays.

Unfortunately the typical UNO/mcufriend TFT display board maps LCD_RD, LCD_CS and LCD_RST signals to the ESP32 analogue pins 35, 34 and 36 which are input only. To solve this I linked in the 3 spare pins IO15, IO33 and IO32 by adding wires to the bottom of the board as follows:

If the display board is fitted with a resistance based touch screen then this can be used by performing the modifications described here and the fork of the Adafruit library:

If you load a new copy of TFT_eSPI then it will overwrite your setups if they are kept within the TFT_eSPI folder. One way around this is to create a new folder in your Arduino library folder called "TFT_eSPI_Setups". You then place your custom setup.h files in there. After an upgrade simply edit the User_Setup_Select.h file to point to your custom setup file e.g.:

The library was intended to support only TFT displays but using a Sprite as a 1 bit per pixel screen buffer permits support for the Waveshare 2 and 3 colour SPI ePaper displays. This addition to the library is experimental and only one example is provided. Further examples will be added.

The Kindle Scribe has two major selling points. It is the first digital note taking device that Amazon has ever released and out of the box it has tremendous functionality in this regard. The second, is a large screen e-reader that is capable of reading books, comics, magazines, manga, newspapers and all sorts of other digital content. This is due to the 10-inch display that has 300 PPI, so text and images will be of the highest quality. This is actually the only 10-inch E INK product in the world that has a 300 PPI screen, let that sink in.

The Amazon Kindle Scribe will feature an 10.2-inch E INK Carta 1200 e-paper display panel with a WACOM layer and has a resolution of 300 PPI. It is using a higher resolution TFT. This is a new TFT offering from E Ink, with Amazon having exclusivity with it for a period of time.

The screen is flush with the bezel and protected by a layer of glass. It features the same asymmetrical design as the Kindle Oasis, which a big chunk on one side. This is designed for you to be able to easily hold it with one hand. The device itself is made out of recycled aluminum. There is a front-lit display and color temperature system with a combination of white and amber LED lights. There are 35 total LED lights, which is the most ever found on a Kindle and provides amazing illumination.

Amazon is using Linux on the Kindle Scribe. They have been using the same operating system since the very first Kindle, released in 2007. This allows all of their e-readers to use reduced CPU, RAM and a battery, since the OS really doesn’t need very much power to operate. The Amazon Kindle line of e-readers have gradually seen their UI and home screen change in recent years, as the company is hoping to upgrade everything. The Scribe is a bit different from the standard Kindle.

The home screen has been totally redesigned on the Scribe. This is because it has a large 10-inch display, so more content can fit on the screen at any one time. At the top of the screen is the date, WIFI signal strength and time. Underneath that is a giant search bar and an icon to launch the Amazon bookstore and audiobook store. Underneath that is your recent items that are on a carousel. It would show cover art of books that you have recently added or are in the process of reading. It also shows notes that you have made and other documents, such as a PDF file. Underneath that are all of the curated shopping lists, such as Discover Books, with a number of tabs that you can click on to view various bestseller lists and genre specific entries, such as new releases, romance, biographies etc. There is a scroll bar on the far right, that you can scroll down or you can control the capacitive touchscreen with your finger or stylus to scroll down further. Nothing of note is done here, other than further Amazon recommendations.

Navigating around the UI is super quick and responsive. Scrolling around the home screen, viewing the settings menu or opening a book is robust. This is because Amazon is employing a Carta 1200 display panel, which increases the overall experience by 30% vs. the 10th generation Kindles. This might be the best Kindle experience, ever.

Viewing sticky notes only works on the Scribe, you cannot view sticky notes on other Kindle e-readers. Other Kindle e-readers will not display any of the note icons made with stick notes. However if you make a traditional note with the keyboard, these notes show up on other Kindles. Sticky notes are also not viewable on any of the Kindle apps for Android or iOS.

The vast majority of e-notes on the market have better note taking than the Kindle has, but they are all running Android. This results in the battery draining faster and performance decreases when running Android apps, such as the Kindle. Since Amazon is using Linux, the battery life is preserved. Nothing beats the Kindle on a Linux reader and the only one to do this, are official Kindle e-readers. The Scribe not only allows you to work and be productive, but also delivers a world-class reading experience.

Kindle Scribe enhances the beauty of images, illustrations and graphs on a large, thin, high-resolution display. The Kindle Stores worldwide offers an unmatched library of content with more than 13 million titles. With a Kindle Unlimited subscription, you gain unlimited access to millions of comics, fiction, nonfiction, and newly added top nonfiction books. There is also hundreds of thousands of Audible audiobooks available in select markets, which can be listed to via an audio player with Bluetooth headphones, earbuds or an external speaker.

And should I mention it again, CoreImage will be a key stone of OSX in the future. Having a decent GPU inside certainly would not hurt. Or at least offer the option on purchase.

If you dont mention Paypals or I dont know start a competition between Microsoft , Apple and GNU/linux user ( BSD dont have money so it seems ) to raise the most money to have you shave your head and write on it I hate X ( loosing contributing OS ) on your shaved head with a black marker and take picture and a film of it at an Apple Store ( pray its not Apple who loose ).

I’m glad Apple finally ditched the extremely frustrating 1024×768 ceiling. You can also finally have a higher external res than that on the built-in display. That’s the biggest thing that’s been keeping me away from the iBook line for so long. They’ve finally given their pro laptops an edge in video without crippling their consumer end.

The Core Duo costs more than three times the price of a G4 chip (I think), last time I heard. Apple never said it was cheaper. What’s nice is now at the same price you can get a 6x faster machine.