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TFT_display_init() Perform display initialization sequence. Sets orientation to landscape; clears the screen. SPI interface must already be setup, tft_disp_type, _width, _height variables must be set.

compile_font_file Function which compiles font c source file to binary font file which can be used in TFT_setFont() function to select external font. Created file has the same name as source file and extension .fnt

In this guide we’re going to show you how you can use the 1.8 TFT display with the Arduino. You’ll learn how to wire the display, write text, draw shapes and display images on the screen.

The 1.8 TFT is a colorful display with 128 x 160 color pixels. The display can load images from an SD card – it has an SD card slot at the back. The following figure shows the screen front and back view.

This module uses SPI communication – see the wiring below . To control the display we’ll use the TFT library, which is already included with Arduino IDE 1.0.5 and later.

The TFT display communicates with the Arduino via SPI communication, so you need to include the SPI library on your code. We also use the TFT library to write and draw on the display.

In which “Hello, World!” is the text you want to display and the (x, y) coordinate is the location where you want to start display text on the screen.

The 1.8 TFT display can load images from the SD card. To read from the SD card you use the SD library, already included in the Arduino IDE software. Follow the next steps to display an image on the display:

Note: some people find issues with this display when trying to read from the SD card. We don’t know why that happens. In fact, we tested a couple of times and it worked well, and then, when we were about to record to show you the final result, the display didn’t recognized the SD card anymore – we’re not sure if it’s a problem with the SD card holder that doesn’t establish a proper connection with the SD card. However, we are sure these instructions work, because we’ve tested them.

In this guide we’ve shown you how to use the 1.8 TFT display with the Arduino: display text, draw shapes and display images. You can easily add a nice visual interface to your projects using this display.

TFT_display_init() Perform display initialization sequence. Sets orientation to landscape; clears the screen. SPI interface must already be setup, tft_disp_type, _width, _height variables must be set.

compile_font_file Function which compiles font c source file to font file which can be used in TFT_setFont() function to select external font. Created file have the same name as source file and extension .fnt

ER-TFTM050-3 is 800x480 dots 5" color tft lcd module display with RA8875 controller board,superior display quality,super wide viewing angle and easily controlled by MCU such as 8051, PIC, AVR, ARDUINO,and ARM .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 supports 8080 6800 8-bit,16-bit parallel,3-wire,4-wire,I2C serial spi interface. Built-in MicroSD card slot. It"s optional for 4-wire resistive touch panel (IC RA8875 built-in touch controller),capacitive touch panel with controller,font chip, flash chip and microsd card. We offer two types connection,one is pin header and the another is ZIF connector with flat cable.Mounting on board by default. There is no capacitive touch panel connection on the board of ER-TFTM050-3,its capacitive touch panel needs to be connected with your external board.Now we design another new board with capacitive touch connection named_ER-TFTM050A2-3.

Of course, we wouldn"t just leave you with a datasheet and a "good luck!".Here is the link for5" TFT capacitive touch shield with libraries,examples,schematic diagram for Arduino Due,Mega 2560 and Uno. For 8051 microcontroller user,we prepared the detailed tutorial such as interfacing, demo code and development kit at the bottom of this page.

A beautiful 3.5” touchscreen display, based on ESP32-WROVER, with a built-in 2M pixel OV2640 camera, makes it an ever perfect platform for your ESP32 projects.

Makerfabs ESP32 3.5” Touch with camera is absolutely open for makers, and besides, Makerfabs provide plenty of Demos to help the users on the usage. Have a try at this fantastic display in your next ESP32 project!~

The Makerfabs 3.5 inch TFT Touch is great but the refresh rate is always a problem, some customers feedback they want a higher speed display. The ESP32-S2 Parallel TFT has a much higher refresh rate, but the disadvantage is the lack of Bluetooth...

That is why this latest ESP32-S3 Parallel TFT, compares to the S2 version, not only more SRAM and ROM, the Bluetooth 5.0 make it fit for applications such as local monitoring/controlling.

This 3.5" 320x480 TFT LCD driver is ILI9488, it uses 16bits parallel line for communication with ESP32-S3, the main clock could be up to 20MHz, making the display smooth enough for video displays. With this display, you can freely to create more IoT display projects, check the demo project in the video:

Same as the S2 version, there 2 onboard Mabee pins(A I2c and an IOs) with the breakout connectors, to connect the ESP32-S2 display with sensors/ actuators, suitable for IoT applications.

Using the drawbmp function just as is (substitute tft_-> for _tft->) inside TFT_eFX does compile but it"s not showing anything on the screen (black screen)

Note: soon there will be an update to the TFT_eSPI library that adds bounds checking and cropping to the Sprite pushImage() member function. This will be needed to allow bitmap files that would overlap the edges of the Sprite to be pushed, cropped and rendered correctly in a Sprite.

One option is to not defined TFT_CS at all in the setup file and to control each display chip select in the sketch, depending on which display you want to update.

One option is to not defined TFT_CS at all in the setup file and to control each display chip select in the sketch, depending on which display you want to update.

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According to the text it says touch, according to the screenshots it has a resistive display but I am missing the xpt2046 or touch IC in general, let alone the touch cs pin to drive it. Can you confirm yours has touch?

According to the text it says touch, according to the screenshots it has a resistive display but I am missing the xpt2046 or touch IC in general, let alone the touch cs pin to drive it. Can you confirm yours has touch?

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.

The TFT display is a kind of LCD that is connected to each pixel using a transistor and it features low current consumption, high-quality, high-resolution and backlight. This 2.8-inch full color LCD has a narrow PCB display. The resolution is 320×280 pixels and it has a four-wire SPI interface and white backlight.

I"ve bought on AliExpress a cheap 1.77 color display module. Getting it to work on an Arduino was straight forward. But the Arduino is slow. I also got it working on an Esp8266, which was also straight forward. However getting it to work on an ESP32 was a little harder. I"ve tried several libraries, e.g. AdaFruit and UcgLib. These didn"t work. After some investigations the SPI speed was too high for the display. I tried to change the libs to reduce the speed. I didn"t work either.

So I left the project a few weeks and I started again. I searched for all possible libraries for ST7735 and ESP32. I found some and there was one I manged to get to work.

After tweaking the user_setup.h file I managed to get it to work.The settings that ware important to change was to change the ST7735 defines. Default I choose the first. This one didn"t work. I reduce SPI speed, which had no effect either. Than after some changes and tweaking connections and setting I finally worked. The ST7735 defines all work except the first one with my TFT-screen. I reset all to default and the SPI-speed and it kept working. It works at a 27 MHz speed, which leave me with 450 ms for the 11 test pages. If I increase the speed to the next value of 40 MHz I see errors in the display. So 27 MHz is max for me.

I also checked all other ST7735 defines, and for my TFT the ST7735_GREENTAB3 showed the correct colors. The other values show the wrong colors, but gave an image.

In our last article, we’ve focused on the wiring and underlying protocols of our custom ESP32 primary flight display. It’s time to start bringing this contraption to life with the use of code. We will focus on displaying our first graphics, layer shapes, and display game data and position elements relative to each other.

The ESP32, in its core, is vastly different from an Arduino (while similar at the same time). Most of the libraries that we’ve been using in the past will work perfectly fine interchangeably between an ESP32 and an Arduino. There are certain instances where a custom ESP32 library is needed to drive certain components or handle board-specific logic. The TFT screen is one of those components that requires a specific ESP32 oriented library. But why do we use a special library for the encoder then? Even though the default Arduino libraries might sometimes work on an ESP32, there are cases where a board-specific library optimizes and streamlines the process for us.

If we want to draw a black background, we need to set every pixel to black. We can address each pixel individually, so we don’t have to refresh the entire frame to display a new element. To make this process easier, the TFT_eSPI divides our pixels into a grid. An X-axis marks the horizontal axis (the columns), while a Y-axis marks the rows. Because we use the screen in a horizontal position the top left corner has the coordinates X0, Y0. The bottom-right coordinates will then be? You guessed it correctly X480, Y320. This grid system will be the foundation of our graphics. Went to draw something in the middle? Just divide the maximum height and width by 2 and you’ll get the middle coordinates.

Mine clearly states that it uses an ST7796S chip. Other common chips are the ILI9341 or the ILI19488. The wiring doesn’t differentiate between these screens it is just the low-level commands that differ. Luckily these differences get handled by the TFT_eSSPI library. We just need to make sure that we tell the library what type of chip we use.

In the code example below you’ll see that I uncommented the #define ST7796_DRIVER (once again yours might differ). This ensures the library uses the correct commands to match our screen.

//#define ILI9488_DRIVER // WARNING: Do not connect ILI9488 display SDO to MISO if other devices share the SPI bus (TFT SDO does NOT tristate when CS is high)

If we scroll down further we find a block that has specific pins for an ESP8266 (see the code block below). We will be using an ESP32 and not an ESP8266 (the precursor of the ESP32). Therefore we want to comment all these lines out.

The block underneath this header lets us define the pins where we’ve connected our TFT screen to our ESP32. In the previous article, we’ve taken a deep dive into the wiring if you want to read up on the subject. To make things easier I’ve enclosed the wiring diagram in the image below.

Our goal is to match the setup block with the pins that we’ve used on our board. Luckily we’ve already used the pins that either are mandatory (the dedicated SPI pins) or are recommended by the library. All we have to do is comment out the first six #defines.

Our screen makes use of the SPI interface. The SPI interface on our ESP32 needs to be manually enabled by including this header file or else both components can’t communicate.

To enable the screen we need to initialize the display. Because we only want to initialize the screen once we add this code to the setup block. The setup block only gets executed when our board boots (or when it gets reset). The loop block will contain all of our code that gets executed repeatedly.

We could already upload this code but our screen would still be white as snow. Our screen isn’t a high-end product. But in our case, it doesn’t have to be. The downside is that it has a smaller color range. Most non-budget screens can produce a 24-bit color range while ours can only display a 16-bit color range.

The TFT_eSPI library packs several default colors. I’d recommend taking a look at the TFT_eSPI.h file that is located in the TFT_eSPI library folder. Besides the colors, you are also able to find all the available functions that we can utilize. It’s good practice to do this each time you use a new library. Even though you might not understand everything that happens under the hood it gives you a good overview of all the functionalities. Just studying the code of libraries could also learn you a trick or two (it has learned me a ton).

Our screen is still white by default. We want to have a black background on our screen instead of white. We could paint each pixel black one at a time but that would be quite cumbersome. Luckily the library has a .fillScreen(color) function. The text “color” can be found between the (). This tells us that color is a parameter required for the fillScreen function. If we want to paint our screen black we could pass this function the color TFT_BLACK. TFT_BLACK is like an alias the library made for the color black. We could also pass the color hex value directly (0x0000). We might want to change our background color at a later point so it’s wise to create a variable that holds your background value (trust me you’ll thank me later).

To add our silver square to simulate a chrome-like trim around the comm data we’re going to draw a solid filled square. There are two options we can utilize in the TFT_eSPI library. The first is the drawRect function. While this may seem like the logical thing to do but it will only draw a one-pixel wide square. If we want a wider rectangle we could draw multiple rectangles inside of each other for every pixel we want.

To get the screen width from our library we use the getViewportHeight function. This might sound counterintuitive since we want to retrieve the width. The library we’re using has portrait mode as the default mode. Because we flip our screens horizontally the width becomes the height and vice versa.

Once again the library will come to our rescue with the fillTriangle function. To create a triangle we need to coordinate sets (X and Y coordinates). Each point can be moved by changing the coordinates. For this, we could also create a schematic.

When we upload this code to our board nothing will be displayed. The final step we haven’t added yet is calling the initializeRadio function from our setup block. It may seem trivial but after uploading this last adjustment our screen comes to life.

We’ve finally got all the graphical elements in place. Time to display some actual information that we can use. Our first step will be to include the Bits and Droids library and create an object. The data handling function will be the first code we add to our loop function. This function ensures that when we receive data from our connector and we store it in the appropriate place. To display text we need to add the font file as well.

When we display text there are a few things to keep in mind. First of all, how does our screen display text? It prints every letter at the desired location. In an ideal world going from 0 – 2, this would look like this in each frame.

It will just draw the character on top of the previous character resulting in a graphical mess. To avoid this we need to draw the character while we also redraw the space around the character with the same color as the background. The TFT_eSPI library has a function for this called drawString() and drawFloat(). It won’t just display the text it also takes care of the background.

If you want to practice this concept I’d suggest adding a header in the top left corner that displays the current screen. I went with a header that says “COM 1”.

tft.drawString((String)buttonTextArray[i], buttonArray[i].xStart + buttonArray[i].width / 2-6, buttonArray[i].yStart + buttonArray[i].height / 2 - 9);

The initialization of our radio elements is something we want to perform only once. There is no need to draw every element over and over again. To save our ESP32 from a gruesome job we add a function that we’ll call the radio mode. If the radio mode is active we will initialize the radio screen once and display the data if new data came in. This modular approach lets us easily swap screens at a later point. Now we add a radio mode, next time add a fuel gauge mode, and so on. By doing this we only have to implement the logic that swaps modes and we’re set.

tft.drawString((String)buttonTextArray[i], buttonArray[i].xStart + buttonArray[i].width / 2-6, buttonArray[i].yStart + buttonArray[i].height / 2 - 9);

This project uses the SPIFFS (ESP32 flash memory) to store images used as background. You"ll need to upload these to the ESP32 before you upload the sketch to the ESP32. For this you"ll need the ESP32 Sketch Data Upload tool.

You can download this from Github: "https://github.com/me-no-dev/arduino-esp32fs-plugin". Follow the instructions on the Github to install the tool:Download the tool archive from releases page.

Before you upload the data folder to the ESP32, you"ll first have to select the right partitioning scheme.Go to Tools -> Board and select ESP32 Dev Module.

Firstly, depending on the board you are using (with resistive touch, capacitive touch, or no touch) you will have to uncomment the correct one. For example, if you are using the ESP32 TouchDown uncomment: "#define ENABLE_CAP_TOUCH". If you are using a DevKitC with separate TFT, uncomment "#define ENABLE_RES_TOUCH".

You can also set the scale of the y-axis of the graphs. This is done under "// The scale of the Y-axis per graph". If these are to big or to small, the data will not be displayed correctly on the graph. You might have to experiment with these.

Go ahead and upload the Bluetooth-System-Monitor.ino sketch to the ESP32. The settings under tools besides the Partition Scheme can be left to the default (see image). Go to "Sketch" and select "Upload". This may take a while because it is a large sketch.