arduino 3.2 tft lcd touch shield tutorial price

Spice up your Arduino project with a beautiful large touchscreen display shield with built in microSD card connection. This TFT display is big (3.2" diagonal) bright (5 white-LED backlight) and colorful (18-bit 262,000 different shades)! 240x320 pixels with individual pixel control. As a bonus, this display has a optional resistive touch panel with controller XPT2046 attached by default and a optional capacitive touch panel with controller FT6206 attached by default, so you can detect finger presses anywhere on the screen and doesn"t require pressing down on the screen with a stylus and has nice glossy glass cover.

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!

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.

SainSmart 3.2" TFT LCD Displayis a LCD touch screen module. It has 40pins interface and SD card and Flash reader design. It is a powerful and mutilfunctional module for your project.The Screen include a controller SSD1289, it"s a support 8/16bit data interface , easy to drive by many MCU like STM32 ,AVR and 8051. It is designed with a touch controller in it . The touch IC is ADS7843 , and touch interface is included in the 40 pins breakout. It is the version of product only with touch screen and touch controller.

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.

For this tutorial I composed three examples. The first example is distance measurement using ultrasonic sensor. The output from the sensor, or the distance is printed on the screen and using the touch screen we can select the units, either centimeters or inches.

The third example is a game. Actually it’s a replica of the popular Flappy Bird game for smartphones. We can play the game using the push button or even using the touch screen itself.

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.

Next we need to define the fonts that are coming with the libraries and also define some variables needed for the program. In the setup section we need to initiate the screen and the touch, define the pin modes for the connected sensor, the led and the button, and initially call the drawHomeSreen() custom function, which will draw the home screen of the program.

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.

Here’s that function which uses the ultrasonic sensor to calculate the distance and print the values with SevenSegNum font in green color, either in centimeters or inches. If you need more details how the ultrasonic sensor works you can check my particular tutorialfor that. Back in the loop section we can see what happens when we press the select unit buttons as well as the back button.

Ok next is the RGB LED Control example. If we press the second button, the drawLedControl() custom function will be called only once for drawing the graphic of that example and the setLedColor() custom function will be repeatedly called. In this function we use the touch screen to set the values of the 3 sliders from 0 to 255. With the if statements we confine the area of each slider and get the X value of the slider. So the values of the X coordinate of each slider are from 38 to 310 pixels and we need to map these values into values from 0 to 255 which will be used as a PWM signal for lighting up the LED. If you need more details how the RGB LED works you can check my particular tutorialfor that. The rest of the code in this custom function is for drawing the sliders. Back in the loop section we only have the back button which also turns off the LED when pressed.

In order the code to work and compile you will have to include an addition “.c” file in the same directory with the Arduino sketch. This file is for the third game example and it’s a bitmap of the bird. For more details how this part of the code work  you can check my particular tutorial. Here you can download that file:

Begin by carefully starting the rear connector of the TFT shield onto the Arduino Mega. Go slowly and ensure that all pins are inserted correctly and are straight.

In order to use 3.2″ TFT lcd  Shield , We must have the libraries. So you can download  (UTFT Library) and (URTouch Library) install the library by extracting that zipped file in the library folder as shown below.

No! For about the price of a familiar 2x16 LCD, you get a high resolution TFT display. For as low as $4 (shipping included!), it"s possible to buy a small, sharp TFT screen that can be interfaced with an Arduino. Moreover, it can display not just text, but elaborate graphics. These have been manufactured in the tens of millions for cell phones and other gadgets and devices, and that is the reason they are so cheap now. This makes it feasible to reuse them to give our electronic projects colorful graphic displays.

There are quite a number of small cheap TFT displays available on eBay and elsewhere. But, how is it possible to determine which ones will work with an Arduino? And what then? Here is the procedure:ID the display. With luck, it will have identifying information printed on it. Otherwise, it may involve matching its appearance with a picture on Google images. Determine the display"s resolution and the driver chip.

Find out whether there is an Arduino driver available. Google is your friend here. Henning Karlsen"s UTFT library works with many displays. (http://www.rinkydinkelectronics.com/library.php?i...)

Download and install the driver library. On a Linux machine, as root, copy the library archive file to the /usr/share/arduino/libraries directory and untar or unzip it.

Load an example sketch into the Arduino IDE, and then upload it to the attached Arduino board with wired-up TFT display. With luck, you will see text and/or graphics.

We"ll begin with a simple one. The ILI9163 display has a resolution of 128 x 128 pixels. With 8 pins in a single row, it works fine with a standard Arduino UNO or with a Mega. The hardware hookup is simple -- only 8 connections total! The library put together by a smart fella, by the name of sumotoy, makes it possible to display text in multiple colors and to draw lines.

Note that these come in two varieties, red and black. The red ones may need a bit of tweaking to format the display correctly -- see the comments in the README.md file. The TFT_ILI9163C.h file might need to be edited.

It is 5-volt friendly, since there is a 74HC450 IC on the circuit board that functions as a level shifter. These can be obtained for just a few bucks on eBay and elsewhere, for example -- $3.56 delivered from China. It uses Henning Karlsen"s UTFT library, and it does a fine job with text and graphics. Note that due to the memory requirement of UTFT, this display will work with a standard UNO only with extensive tweaking -- it would be necessary to delete pretty much all the graphics in the sketch, and just stay with text.

This one is a 2.2" (diagonal) display with 176x220 resolution and parallel interface. It has a standard ("Intel 8080") parallel interface, and works in both 8-bit and 16-bit modes. It uses the S6D0164 driver in Henning Karlsen"s UTFT library, and because of the memory requirements of same, works only with an Arduino Mega or Due. It has an SD card slot on its back

This one is a bit of an oddball. It"s a clone of the more common HY-TFT240, and it has two rows of pins, set at right angles to one another. To enable the display in 8-bit mode, only the row of pins along the narrow edge is used. The other row is for the SD card socket on the back, and for 16-bit mode. To interface with an Arduino ( Mega or Due), it uses Henning Karlsen"s UTFT library, and the driver is ILI9325C. Its resolution is 320x240 (hires!) and it incorporates both a touch screen and an SD card slot.

Having determined that a particular TFT display will work with the Arduino, it"s time to think about a more permanent solution -- constructing hard-wired and soldered plug-in boards. To make things easier, start with a blank protoshield as a base, and add sockets for the TFT displays to plug into. Each socket row will have a corresponding row next to it, with each individual hole "twinned" to the adjacent hole in the adjoining row by solder bridges, making them accessible to jumpers to connect to appropriate Arduino pins. An alternative is hard-wiring the socket pins to the Arduino pins, which is neater but limits the versatility of the board.

The key to an effective DIY shield is a neat and logical layout. Sketching the prospective shield on quadrille (graph) paper may be helpful. A multitester or continuity tester might be useful for detecting wiring and soldering errors.

In step 5, you mention that the TFT01 display can"t be used with the UTFT library on an Arduino Uno because of its memory requirements. It can - all you have to do is edit memorysaver.h and disable any display models you"re not using.

I think you should add a disclaimer that the code might make the Arduino Uno unprogrammable afterward (due to use up the two 0 and 1 pin) and link to how to fix it: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5290428/how-to-reset-an-arduino-board/8453576?sfb=2#84535760

Tho I realize this is quickly becoming legacy hardware, these 8,16 bit parallel spi with 4 wire controller 3.2in Taft touch display 240x380. It has become very inexpensive with ally of back stock world wide so incorporating them into any project is easier then ever. Sorry to my question. I’m having difficulty finding wiring solution for this lcd. It is a sd1289 3.3 and 5v ,40 pin parallel 8,16 bit. I do not want to use a extra shield,hat or cape or adapter. But there’s a lot of conflicting info about required lvl shifters for this model any help or links to info would be great .. thank you. I hope I gave enough information to understand what I’m adoing

#1 you need a data sheet for the display and pinout and the i/o board attached to the cable.Than before you buy check for a driver for this chip Raydium/RM69071.if no driver lib are you able to write one and do you have the necessary tools to work on this scale to wire it up ..if you answer no than search for an arduino ready product.WCH0

hooking up and adding a lib is no piece of cake insure the screen you buy is arduino ready and sold by a reputable shop with step by step directions...WCH0

I"m sorry that I can"t help you with this. You"ll have to do your own research. See if you can identify the chipset and find out if there"s an Arduino driver for it.0

Thanks for the wealth of knowledge! It is amazing at what is possible with items the average person can easily acquire. I hope to put some of your tips to use this winter as I would like to build sensors and other items for home automation and monitoring. Being able to have small displays around the house in addition to gathering and controlling things remotely will help the family see room conditions without going to the computer. The idea of a touchscreen control for cheap is mind blowing.

Arduino 3.2"" TFT Touch Shield is an Arduino Mega compatible multicolored TFT display with a touch-screen and SD card socket. It is available in an Arduino MEGA shield compatible pinout for attachment. The TFT driver is based on SSD1289 with 16bit data and 4bit control interface.

Arduino 3.2" TFT LCD Touch shield is an Arduino Mega compatible multicolored TFT display with touch-screen and SD card socket. It is available in an Arduino MEGA shield compatible pinout for attachment. The TFT driver is based on SSD1289 with 8bit data and 4bit control interface.

The 3.5" TFT LCD Touch Display Shield for Arduino has been fully assembled, tested, and is ready to use. Install the touch display without any wiring or soldering! Simply plug it in and load a library; you"ll be up and running in less than 10 minutes! It works best with any traditional Arduino ATMEGA328 board. So add a beautiful touchscreen display shield with a built-in microSD card connection to your Arduino project. This TFT display is large (3.5′′ diagonal), bright (4 white LED backlights), and colorful (262,000 different shades)!

The TFT display has 480x320 pixels and individual pixel control. It has significantly higher resolution than a black and white 128x64 display. As an added bonus, this TFT display includes a resistive touchscreen, allowing you to detect finger presses anywhere on the screen.

The control and driving circuit of TFT displaymodules is low voltage and FRIDA micro-power CMOS circuit, can be easily damaged by static, static damage is an irreparable damage, and sometimes human have hundreds of volts of high voltage static electricity, therefore, in handling, assembling and use should be extremely careful to prevent static electricity:

We know that we could find many examples for Arduino and TFT LCD to work together, Arduino UNO with 2.8"/3.2" TFT screen, or Arduino Mega with 2.8"/5.0" TFT screen. They are all working very well. However, if you play with it, you may find they are rather blunt, not swift enough to show a picture quickly. In fact, we"ve made some TFT shields for Arduino Uno/Mega ever. But we feel they are all not good enough.

Why ? You know, Arduino UNO/Mega works on 8-bit ATMega328/1280/2560. Those chips are not powerful enough for TFT screen. While Arduino Due comes, we feel that: oh, it is the time !

Arduino Due is based on 32-bit ARM processor, and it is much more powerful than Arduino UNO/Mega. So if you play Arduino DUE and TFT, you feel everything abviously runs faster than Arduino Mega. You could display a picture shortly.

Our shield is designed for Arduino DUE. It is not compatible with Arduino Mega/Mega2560. Please DO NOT insert it to Arduino Mega/Mega2560. Otherwise the TFT Screen might be damaged.

Our TFT shield doesn"t cover all the female pins like most of other TFT shield. We know that sometimes we need other modules connected with Arduino at the same time. To make things easier, our designing also leaves space for a Sensor Shield. Users don"t need to spend much time on wiring.

It has 40 pins interface and SD card and Flash reader design. It is a powerful and mutilfunctional module for your project. The Screen include a controller ILI9341, it"s a support 8/16 bit data interface , easy to drive by many MCU like arduino families? STM32, AVR and 8051. It is designed with a touch controller in it . The touch IC is XPT2046 , and touch interface is included in the 40 pins breakout. It is the version of product only with touch screen and touch controller.

262K color320*2403.2 inchWide viewing angleILI9341 : 320 TFT Driver X 240 RGBIntegrated Power, Gate and Source Driver With RAMXPT2046-WIRE TOUCH,WIRE TOUCH, UP TO 125kHz CONVERSION RATE, SERIAL INTERFACEVoltage type : 5v or 3v voltage input voltage?input is selectable. Because TFT can only work under 3.3 V voltage, so when the input voltage VIN is 5V, need through the 3.3 V voltage regulator IC step down to 3.3V , when the input voltage of 3.3 V, you need to use the zero resistance make J2 short , is equivalent to not through the voltage regulator IC for module and power supply directly.Note: the factory TFT module, are the 5 v power supply. By default.Carrying on board SD holder, its work to SPI mode.By the use of Stylus we can write anything on Display.

Welcome to another Arduino video tutorial! In this video, we are going to take a first look at this 2.8” Color TFT Touch display! It is a big, low-cost touch display which is very easy to use. Without any further delay, let’s get started.

Hello guys, I am Nick and welcome to educ8s.tv a channel that is all about DIY electronics projects with Arduino, Raspberry Pi, ESP8266, ESP32 and other popular boards. If you are new here, welcome, be sure to subscribe and check the previous videos on the channel.

Today we are going to learn how to drive the 2.8” Touch display with the ILI9341 driver with an Arduino Uno and an ESP32 board. First of all, let’s take a close look at the display itself. The display is big, and it offers a resolution of 320×240 pixels. Compared to one of my favorites displays, the 1.8” Color TFT display you can see it a lot larger. The screen also offers touch functionality which is an added bonus and an SD card slot at the back. It uses the SPI interface, so the connection with the Arduino is very straightforward. The cost of the display is relatively low; it costs around 11$ which in my opinion is a fair price for what this display offers.

Another thing I like about this display is that it does not come as a shield like the touch display we were using so far. This way, we can connect the display to any board, the Arduino Pro mini, the STM32, the ESP8266 and the ESP32. This is very important because we now have a low-cost display that we can use with every board. Until now, the only touch display we could use with these boards were the Nextion displays which are more expensive, and to be honest even though I use them from time to time, I don’t really like them.

Now let’s see how to connect this display to an Arduino Uno. The first 9 pins of the display are the power pins and the SPI pins. So, if we connect only the first 9 pins of the display, we can use it as a regular display without touch functionality. The display uses 3.3-volt logic levels and unfortunately, it is not 5V tolerant. So, we need to use some 10K resistors if we want to drive it with a board that uses 5V logic levels like the Arduino Uno.

As you can see, we have connected Vcc to 5V of the Arduino Uno and the SPI pins of the display to the hardware SPI pins of the Arduino Uno. Let’s load a demo sketch now. As you can the 8bit Arduino Uno with only 2KBs of RAM can drive this big display! But as you can see it is very slow in updating the screen. It takes many seconds to update the whole screen which is a pity. It can display text with more speed though. It is obvious that the Arduino Uno is not enough to drive a display with such a high resolution. It is obvious that we need a more powerful board to drive this display effectively.

But can we build a useful project using this display? I wanted to find out, so I decided to build a simple real-time clock and temperature monitor. I added a DS3231 RTC module, and I modified the code of a previous project to use the new bigger display. You can find the code of the project in a link in the description below. The result is not that bad as the demo sketch. The project works fine, but of course, there is a small delay when the values on the screen are updated. In my opinion, this project demonstrates that we can use this display with an 8bit Arduino only on very simple projects that update the screen rarely.

Before moving to the more capable ESP32 board, let’s try to use the touch functionality of the display. We connect the remaining 5 pins according to this schematic diagram, and we are ready to upload the second sketch to the board.

To my surprise, the touch demo works relatively fast! It is a simple sketch in which we draw on the screen using this stylus. I think this result is impressive if we take into consideration that this display is driven by an 8bit board.

Let’s now connect the display to an ESP32 board. If you are not familiar with it, the ESP32 is a very fast and inexpensive Arduino compatible board. I prepared a detailed review of this board a few months ago; you can watch it by clicking on the card here. Since the ESP32 board uses 3.3V logic levels, we don’t need any resistors to drive the display. So, if we don’t need the touch functionality, we connect the display according to this schematic diagram.

If we upload the same sketch that used before on the Arduino Uno, we can see the ESP32 is extremely fast. It can update the display, draw graphics and complete the demo sketch way faster than the Arduino Uno.

Unfortunately, the touch demo is not compatible with the ESP32 board yet, so I didn’t have the chance to try the touch functionality of the display. I will prepare another video about the ESP32 board and this display soon. First I want to test more libraries and find a touch library that works with the ESP32 chip and build a simple demo sketch. Stay tuned.

Let’s now see the software side of the project. In order to use this display with Arduino, we need to install the Adafruit ILI9341 driver and the familiar Adafruit GFX library if we don’t use the touch functionality. If we want to use the touch functionality, we have also to install the URtouch library. You can find links to all the libraries needed along with the code of the demo programs I showed you in the description below.

As a final thought, I believe this display is a great display to use for our future projects. I think I am going to use this display a lot with the ESP32, and STM32 boards because it is easy to use, offers touch functionality and it is relatively inexpensive. I am going to build a complete project around this display soon, to test it even more, and see what is capable of.