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TheAdafruit Mini PiTFT - 135x240 Color TFT Add-on for Raspberry Pi is your little TFT pal, ready to snap onto any and all Raspberry Pi computers, to give you a little display. The Mini PiTFT comes with a full color 240x135 pixel IPS display with great visibility at all angles. The TFT uses only the SPI port so its very fast, and leaves plenty of pins remaining available for buttons, LEDs, sensors, etc. It"s also nice and compact so it will fit into any case.

This display is super small, only about 1.14" diagonal, but since it is an IPS display, its very readable with high contrast and visibility. There was a little space on the top so Adafruit give you two tactile buttons on GPIO pins so you can create a simple user interface. On the bottom there is a Qwiic/STEMMA QT connector for I2C sensors and device so you can plug and play any STEMMA QT devices.

Using the display is very easy, Adafruit have a kernel driver and Python library for the ST7789 chipset. You can set it up as a console output so you can have text and user interface through the Raspberry Pi OS or you draw images, text, whatever you like, using the Python imaging library. Tests showed ~15 FPS update rates so you can do animations or simple video.

Comes completely pre-assembled and tested so you don"t need to do anything but plug it in and install our Python code!Works with any Raspberry Pi computer.

We"ve been looking for a display like this for a long time - it"s only 1.5" diagonal but has a high density 220 ppi, 240x240 pixel display with full-angle viewing.

It looks a lot like the 1.44" 128x128 display, but has 4x as many pixels and looks great at any angle. We"ve seen displays of this caliber used in smartwatches and small electronic devices but they"ve always been MIPI interface. Finally, we found one that is SPI and has a friendly display driver, so it works with any and all microcontrollers or microcomputers!

This lovely little display breakout is the best way to add a small, colorful and very bright display to any project. Since the display uses 4-wire SPI to communicate and has its own pixel-addressable frame buffer, it can be used with every kind of microcontroller. Even a very small one with low memory and few pins available! The 1.54" display has 240x240 16-bit full color pixels and is an IPS display, so the color looks great up to 80 degrees off axis in any direction. The TFT driver (ST7789) is very similar to the popular ST7735, and our Arduino library supports it well.

This breakout has the TFT display soldered on (it uses a delicate flex-circuit connector) as well as a ultra-low-dropout 3.3V regulator and a 3/5V level shifter so you can use it with 3.3V or 5V power and logic. There was a little space so Adafruit placed a microSD card holder so you can easily load full color bitmaps from a FAT16/FAT32 formatted microSD card. The microSD card is not included, but you can pick one up here.

So, if a device so reminiscent of a classic console isn’t for gaming, what is it for? The Bonnet shares a heritage with Adafruit’s Mini PiTFT. That device features the same square 33 mm display, but has just the two buttons. This Adafruit 1.3″ Color TFT Bonnet comes with the five-way joystick to enable more complex interface interactions (the fifth direction is a push inwards, incidentally).

Like the Mini PiTFT, the Adafruit 1.3″ Color TFT Bonnet also features a Qwiic/STEMMA QT connector for I2C sensors. And this is where things become clearer. You can plug and play Adafruit’s range of STEMMA QT devices, which includes all manner of sensors: magnetometers, temperature, pressure, proximity, and so on.

It is in this area where the Adafruit 1.3″ Color TFT Bonnet comes alive. What we have here isn’t the heart of a portable games console, but an interface for a range of sensor projects.

In that spirit, it is something of a shame that the Bonnet covers the entire 40-pin GPIO header, unlike the Mini PiTFT which leaves 16 pins free. But the STEMMA QT connector provides your I/O needs.

It’s fun but wholly impractical. Not quite ready to give up our dream of a teeny console, we attempted to install PICO-8 in this mode and while it did run, the experience was (as Limor claimed) too small.

The kernel installation script also enables you to run Raspberry Pi in a console mode. Text mode is better, if you have very good eyesight, but it’s still lacking an effective use case. According to Adafruit, the Bonnet runs at 15 fps in kernel mode, so it is better suited to simple animations and video (neither of which is fun to watch on such a small display).

This leaves the second, more practical, option. Which is to follow the Python setup guide. This approach is (according to Adafruit) more stable and allows you to write Python code to control the display.

You need to install the Adafruit_Blinka library that provides CircuitPython support in Python. Once up and running, you can follow the tutorials to create your own display interfaces, and there are examples on the site. From here, you will be able to create interfaces that display information, and interact with your range of I2C sensors.

We found this a bit of a head-scratcher, and we’d be interested to hear from makers who find it fits their use case. Unless you know exactly what you’re going to make with it, we suggest going for the simpler two-button Adafruit Mini PiTFT.