3.5 tft lcd shield ili9486 price

Arduino Uno was designed explicitly for IoT hardware development and robotics application and many more memory hunger applications. In most of the electronics projects involving the Arduino, it would be extremely delighted to have a display through which we can monitor the vitals of our project. 3.5 Inch TFT Uno LCD Touch Screen display module designed specifically for Arduino Uno, using the latest Linux Core system. 3.5 inch TFT LCD display screen comes with a built-in microSD card connection.

This 3.5 Inch TFT LCD is a colour active matrix TFT liquid crystal display with a resistive touch screen. The TFT display provides a resolution of 480×320 pixels with colourful and 18-bit, 262,000 different kinds of shade, providing a better display. This 3.5 Inch TFT LCD Screen display has an ILI9486 controller IC which supports MCU Interface. In this, a resistive touchscreen is attached to the display, so we can detect finger presses anywhere on the screen. It is a 4-wire resistive touch screen with a 12-bit 125kHz sampling SAR type A/D converter.

This 3.5 Inch TFT LCD Screen display works on SPI Protocol (serial peripheral interface) to communicate with the main processor. It does not require any external power source or cases to mount it. 3.5 Inch TFT LCD Touch Screen highly recommended operating at a voltage alone 5V/2A power adapter. This is because the PC’s USB port may have not enough power to support both uno and LCD. Moreover, It supports the FBCP software driver, allowing it to configure software resolution, and set up dual-display. These display modules are mounted with high-quality immersion gold surface plating. This Touch Screen Module shield with Micro SD slot especially for UNO and MEGA, driven by ILI9486 Single Chip Driver.

Shield for Arduino Uno consisting of a TFT LCD display with 3.5" resistive touch screen, ILI9486 graphic controller, 480x320 pixel resolution, 65,000 colors, white LED backlight, SD card slot and SPI interface. Ideal for creating applications that need to display data, photos and videos. Suitable for interfacing with Arduino Uno, it is also compatible with Fishino, Nucleo, Xnucleo, MAKERUNO and UNO PLUS (see related products).

Displays are one of the best ways to provide feedback to users of a particular device or project and often the bigger the display, the better. For today’s tutorial, we will look on how to use the relatively big, low cost, ILI9481 based, 3.5″ Color TFT display with Arduino.

This 3.5″ color TFT display as mentioned above, is based on the ILI9481 TFT display driver. The module offers a resolution of 480×320 pixels and comes with an SD card slot through which an SD card loaded with graphics and UI can be attached to the display. The module is also pre-soldered with pins for easy mount (like a shield) on either of the Arduino Mega and Uno, which is nice since there are not many big TFT displays that work with the Arduino Uno.

One of the good things about this module is the ease with which it can be connected to either of the Arduino Mega or Uno. For this tutorial, we will use the Arduino Uno, since the module comes as a shield with pins soldered to match the Uno’s pinout. All we need to do is snap it onto the top of the Arduino Uno as shown in the image below, thus no wiring required.

To easily write code to use this display, we will use the GFX and TFT LCD libraries from “Adafruit” which can be downloaded here. With the library installed we can easily navigate through the examples that come with it and upload them to our setup to see the display in action. By studying these examples, one could easily learn how to use this display. However, I have compiled some of the most important functions for the display of text and graphics into an Arduino sketch for the sake of this tutorial. The complete sketch is attached in a zip file under the download section of this tutorial.

As usual, we will do a quick run through of the code and we start by including the libraries which we will use for the project, in this case, the Adafruit GFX and TFT LCD libraries.

With this done, the Void Setup() function is next. We start the function by issuing atft.reset() command to reset the LCD to default configurations. Next, we specify the type of the LCD we are using via the LCD.begin function and set the rotation of the TFT as desired. We proceed to fill the screen with different colors and display different kind of text using diverse color (via the tft.SetTextColor() function) and font size (via the tft.setTextSize() function).