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I have the USB sound in my pc and Yes I have noticed that, I heard one time when I was testing the display so I thought that was not a big problem, then I continue to test the display with Arduino and it happens again and the Arduino"s LEDs were blinking then I disconnect as fast as I could, I had never seen this issue. Is there a way to solve this, have I to use an external power supply?

NOTE: Due to lighting effects, monitor"s brightness / contrast settings etc, there could be some slight differences in the color tone of the pictures and the actual item

I got the touch screen figured out yesterday. Biggest issue was that three of the four ribbon cable conductors had bad solder joints so it took me a while to figure out which Arduino pins carried the Touch signals. Once I fixed the bad solder joints the touch shows up as a standard 4 wire resistive panel on A0-A3.

And I"m happy to say that although the display shield has connector pins for A8-A15 it doesn"t seem to interfere with my use of those pins for other purposes.

The last and most significant issue is that the backlight is very very dim. I wonder if some of those extra thru-holes are intended to control the backlight level? They"re marked A10-A15, 12, 14, 17, 19, 43, 46, 48, which sounds like Arduino pins numbers to me...

Tracing the circuit board, it appears that BL goes to a transistor (via 1k resistor), to switch 5V into the backlight, allowing an arduino to easily PWM higher currents than 40ma to the backlight.

Now, the strange thing is, the connection from the transistor to the backlight goes through a 330 ohm resistor (measures 329). At 5V, that means a max of 15ma to the backlight, which seems small (my Hitachi LCD draws 150ma). And if you"re going to restrict the amperage to 15ma, why bother putting a transistor in there at all, the arduino could easily provide that amperage on an output pin without a transistor boost.

(There"s also a solder-pad jumper allowing you to bypass the transistor, putting the 5V to the 330ohm backlight resistor. I"m guessing that won"t help, since low amperate is likely my problem to start with? I might try another resistor in parallel with the 330ohm one, to see if it boosts the brightness. Awkward in my current setup, but I gotta try something.)

//Below sets up the SoftwareSerial ports so that the arduino can receive information from the MPPT Controller aswell as pass its information through to the hardware UART

First of all, at the beginning of the source code, the author put this conditional SPI initialization that I think supports specific boards other than Arduino boards.

so this check starts with checking if it"s using arduino SPI library, if it"s another SPI library not the one in arduino core libraries folder, then this check is passed.

Even if this is true, there are still ST7282 registers that users might want to change. For example, on pages 39-40 of the datasheet, I see registers for setting brightness, contrast, and gamma. These will not be accessible.

Is there a demo of this display to prove that it actually works? Because leaving out the serial interface seems like it might have been a mistake made by the designers. I just want to make sure that this module actually functions.

Spice up your Arduino project with a beautiful large touchscreen display shield with built in microSD card connection. This TFT display is big (5" diagonal) bright (12 white-LED backlight) and colorfu 480x272 pixels with individual pixel control. As a bonus, this display has a optional resistive touch panel attached on screen by default.

The shield is fully assembled, tested and ready to go. No wiring, no soldering! Simply plug it in and load up our library - you"ll have it running in under 10 minutes! Works best with any classic Arduino (UNO/Due/Mega 2560).

This display shield has a controller built into it with RAM buffering, so that almost no work is done by the microcontroller. You can connect more sensors, buttons and LEDs.

Of course, we wouldn"t just leave you with a datasheet and a "good luck!" - we"ve written a full open source graphics library at the bottom of this page that can draw pixels, lines, rectangles, circles and text. We also have a touch screen library that detects x,y and z (pressure) and example code to demonstrate all of it. The code is written for Arduino but can be easily ported to your favorite microcontroller!

For 5 inch screen,the high current is needed.But the current of arduino uno or arduino mega board is low, an external 5V power supply is needed. Refer to the image shows the external power supply position on shield ER-AS-RA8875.

If you"ve had a lot of Arduino DUEs go through your hands (or if you are just unlucky), chances are you’ve come across at least one that does not start-up properly.The symptom is simple: you power up the Arduino but it doesn’t appear to “boot”. Your code simply doesn"t start running.You might have noticed that resetting the board (by pressing the reset button) causes the board to start-up normally.The fix is simple,here is the solution.

If you"re looking for a powerful display module, you"ve come to the right place. This 5" display has extremely wide viewing angles, is sunlight-readable, and supports 5-point capacitive touch. Not only is the TFT display wonderful, it is powered by the BT817 EVE chip. The EVE chip enables exceptional graphics control, backlight control, touch sensing, and audio - all mapped as SPI devices making communications with this module a breeze.

Looking for accessories for your EVE TFT display module? We have 2 sizes of FFC cables 6-inch 30-pin FFC cables and 12-inch 30-pin FFC cables, plus a EVE breakout board. Or get everything you need in the 5" EVE Development Kit.

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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 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.

The complete code for this is available under the libraries example on the Arduino IDE. Don’t forget to change the DC and the RESET pin configuration in the code to match the schematics.

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.

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