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In this tutorial, we are going to interface a 3.5-inch TFT display with Raspberry Pi Zero Wdevelopment board. Although Raspberry pi zero itself has an HDMI output that can be directly connected to a Monitor, but in projects where space is a constrain, we need smaller displays. This TFT touch screen display can be easily interfaced to the Raspberry Pi to display the system console, movies, and images, as well as control a relay board and other devices at your fingertips. We’ve used software like MobaXterm or putty to connect to the PC remotely in past tutorials. Here, we are going to use MobaXterm software to install the required drivers for interfacing TFT display with Raspberry Pi Zero W.

This TFT LCD display has a 3.5-inch resistive touch screen display and is compatible with any hardware of the Raspberry Pi family. This 3.5" TFT display has 480x320 pixels with a 16-bit resolution and resistive touch option. It can fit directly on top of the Raspberry Pi Zero W board and gets powered from the Vcc pin, the display communicates through SPI protocol with the Pi. Additionally, you can also use the HDMI port on the Pi to connect it to another display as well. It is designed for Raspberry Pi Zero/Pi 2 /Pi 3 Model B / B+ and can also be used on other hardware platforms which have SPI interfaces. The highlights of this display module is that it supports plug and play without rebooting the Pi and the SPI speed runs as fast as 32MHz to support games and videos.

There are 26 pins in TFT RPi LCD display. It"s used to establish SPI communication between the Raspberry Pi and the LCD, as well as to power the LCD from the Raspberry Pi"s 5V and 3.3V pins. The description of pins is shown below.

It is very easy to connect Raspberry Pi Zero W with a 3.5” TFT LCD display. There are 40 pins on the Raspberry Pi Zero W, but only 26 pins on the LCD, so make sure you connect the pins to your Pi correctly. A strip of female header pins on the LCD will fit snugly into the male header pins. To establish the connection, simply align the pins and press the LCD on top of the Raspberry Pi zero W. When everything is in place, your Pi and LCD should look like the one given below.

After you"ve connected the LCD to the Raspberry Pi Zero W and power on it, you"ll see a blank white screen on the LCD which is due to the fact that no drivers for the linked LCD have been installed on the Pi. So, open the Pi"s terminal window and start making the necessary adjustments. Here, we are going to use MobaXterm software for connecting Raspberry Pi Zero W but you can use PuTTY or any software which is most comfortable for you.

It"s expected that your Raspberry Pi already has an operating system installed and can connect to the internet. If it is not then you can follow our previous tutorial Getting Started with the RASPBERRY PI ZERO W – Headless Setup without Monitor. It"s also assumed that you have access to your Raspberry Pi"s terminal window. In this tutorial, we are going to use MobXterm in SSH mode to connect it with Raspberry Pi Zero W.

Step-2: In this step, we are going to enable SPI connection for Raspberry Pi Zero W. To enable SPI communication, select ‘Interface options’, and then select ‘SPI option’. Then click on "yes" to enable SPI interfacing.

Step-3: Now as we have enabled the SPI interfacing, in this step, we are going to install touch driver in our Raspberry Pi Zero W. You can install the touch drivers using the below command:

Step-4: After installing the touch driver use the below commands to proceed with further setup, here we are using chmod command to change the access mode of the file.

Step-5: Now, restart your Raspberry Pi Zero W. When the Raspberry Pi Zero W restarts, you will see the boot information on the LCD display before the desktop appears, as shown below.

I would like to add one thing at the end of this tutorial that while doing this interfacing, I faced a problem related to OS. TFT display interfacing with Raspberry Pi Zero W was not working on Raspberry Pi OS LiteandRaspberry Pi OS with desktopbut when I used the Raspberry Pi OS with desktop and recommended software then TFT display interfacing with Raspberry Pi Zero W worked as expected.

This is how you can interface Raspberry Pi Zero W with a 3.5 inch TFT Raspberry Pi display. In our next tutorials, we are going to interface different sensors with Raspberry Pi Zero and you will see some amazing DIY projects using Raspberry Pi Zero W. I Hope you"ve enjoyed the project and learned something useful. If you have any questions, please leave them in the comment section below or use our forum to start a discussion on the same.

This 3.5 inch TFT LCD Display Module for Raspberry Pi is designed to work with the RPi zero / 2 / 3 Model B / B+ and can also be used on other hardware platforms with SPI interface (Raspberry Pi showed in the picture is not included). The 3.5″ screen is the same size as the standard Raspberry Pi model B/B+, and integrates well wherever it does.

The 480 x 320 pixels resolution TFT LCD with touch screen requires no external power supply. The software package contains everything you need to start, including calibration software and virtual keyboard.

The highlight of this display module is plug and play without needing to reboot the Pi, and SPI speed runs as fast as 32MHz to support games and videos.

Same size as the Raspberry Pi, perfectly compatible and can be directly inserted into any version of the Raspberry Pi (Raspberry Pi ZeroW, A, A+, B, B+, 2B, 3B, 3B+)

This is 2.8 inch Touchscreen for Raspberry Pi Zero or Zero W, comes with 640x480 Resolution, 60+fps and you can install driver to use the screen and touch.

Note:In fact, this screen fits to Raspberry Pi 3B/2B/B+; but you must use the bread cables to connect them, because it"s male pins on the this screen, and it"s male pins on the pi 3B/B+ too.

This is a 5" Raspberry Pi LCD touchscreen with 800*480 resolution and 108×64.8mm display area. The product supports Raspberry Pi DSI display interface and comes with a capacitive touch panel on its screen and supports 5 touch points.

The special holes design on the back of the screen is convenient to directly install the Raspberry Pi in the product. There is no need to provide external power for the touchscreen as the Raspberry Pi power supply is adopted. In addition, the screen supports hardware backlight adjustment. The function can be realized by turning the potentiometer on the back of the display.

The frame buffer is a memory buffer mapping all the pixels of the screen. Our screen"s resolution is 480x320, and each color is coded on 2 bytes, so it"s simply a 480x320x2 bytes buffer, so we have to write the pixel color at the proper buffer position to have this pixel displayed on the screen.

As said, the screen displays only 65536 colors, so each pixel is coded on 16 bits, using the RGB565 format ( 5 bits for red, 6 bits for green, 5 bits for blue ), here is the way to convert standard 24 bits RGB to 16 bits RGB565 :

I found a nice 8x8 pixels font here and made a few executables to use in scripts. You"ll find my code attached, or you can simply clone it from GitHub and build the various executables :git clone https://github.com/SamuelF94/fbdisplay

HyperPixel 4.0 is the perfect way to use your Pi without a bunch of cables or a bulky display. Design your own interface to control your project, display data, or turn your Pi into a tiny media centre.

This new version of HyperPixel has a gorgeous IPS display, with wide viewing angles, custom-made cover glass (on the touch version), and the alternate I2C interface is broken out for advanced users.

Note that the images of the displays on this page have not been Photoshopped. That"s the Raspberry Pi OS desktop with our HyperPixel wallpaper on! (click here to download our HyperPixel wallpaper)

HyperPixel uses a high-speed DPI interface, allowing it to shift 5x more pixel data than the usual SPI interface that these small Pi displays use. It has a 60 FPS frame rate and a resolution of approximately 235 pixels per inch (800x480) on its 4.0" display. The display can show 18-bits of colour (262,144 colours).

The Touch version has a capacitive touch display that"s more sensitive and responsive to touch than a resistive touch display, and it"s capable of multi-touch!

Everything comes fully-assembled, and there"s no soldering required! The display is securely stuck down to the HyperPixel 4.0 PCB and connected via a neat little flush-mounting FPC cable. Just pop HyperPixel 4.0 on your Pi and run our installer to get everything set up!

Please note: when installing HyperPixel 4.0 onto your Pi make sure not to press down on the screen surface! Hold the board by its edges and wiggle it to mate with the extended header (or GPIO header). Also take care not to pull on the edges of the glass display when removing your HyperPixel.

It"ll work with any 40-pin version of the Pi, including Pi Zero and Pi Zero W. If you"re using it with a larger Pi then use the extra 40-pin header that"s included to boost it up to the required height. If you"re using a Zero or Zero W then just pop it straight onto the GPIO.

The included standoff kit allows you to mount your HyperPixel 4.0 safely and securely to your Pi. Just screw them into the posts on the underside of the HyperPixel 4.0 PCB and then secure with screws through the mounting holes on your Pi.

Raspberry Pi OS Bullseye includes major changes to how DPI display drivers work. If you"re using an image dated 04/04/2022 or later, it will come with Hyperpixel drivers baked in and you don"t need to run the installer. You can set up display and touch by adding a few lines to your boot/config.txt:

If you"re using Raspberry Pi OS Buster/Legacy (or an earlier version), you can use our one-line-installer to configure your Pi properly for HyperPixel 4.0 and to enable the touch screen on the touch version. Note that you"ll need another display, keyboard, and mouse to install the software, or you could do it remotely over SSH if you follow our guide on how to set your Pi up headlessly.

HyperPixel uses basically all of the GPIO pins to communicate with the Pi (including the standard I2C pins) so it"s not generally possible to use it with other HATs and devices that connect via the GPIO...

...but we have provided an alternate I2C interface broken out on the back that will let you use I2C devices (like sensor breakouts) at the same time as HyperPixel. There are instructions how to set this up in our Hyperpixel 4.0 tutorial.

The 3.5 inch TFT LCD HDMI Touchscreen Display Module for Raspberry Pi (B010601)is the same size as the standard Raspberry Pi model B/B+, and well mates with the Raspberry Pi boards. With its touch screen and split audio from the HDMI input, it is ideal for portable devices and multimedia projects, and it is a replacement for a heavy and bulky HDMI monitor, keyboard and mice.The 480 x 320 pixels resolution TFT LCD with touch screen requires no external power supply. The software package contains everything you need to start, including calibration software and virtual keyboard.

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A Raspberry Pi is a palm size computer. It is handy for prototyping purposes with high computational power. Mostly, it is being used for IOT hardware applications.

The Pi has a HDMI output for direct monitor connection. But projects where space is a constrain, we need a small and compact display. This is where the popular 3.5 inch touch screen TFT LCD comes into play.