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ER-TFTM028-4 is 240x320 dots 2.8" color tft lcd module display with ILI9341 controller board,superior display quality,super wide viewing angle and easily controlled by MCU such as 8051, PIC, AVR, ARDUINO,ARM and Raspberry PI.It can be used in any embedded systems,industrial device,security and hand-held equipment which requires display in high quality and colorful image.

It supports 8080 8-bit /9-bit/16-bit /18-bit parallel ,3-wire,4-wire serial spi interface.Built-in optional microSD card slot, 2.8" 4-wire resistive touch panel with controller XPT2046 and 2.8" capacitive touch panel with controller FT6206. It"s optional for font chip, flash chip and microsd card. We offer two types connection,one is pin header and the another is ZIF connector with flat cable mounting on board by default and suggested. Lanscape mode is also available.

Of course, we wouldn"t just leave you with a datasheet and a "good luck!".Here is the link for 2.8"TFT Touch Shield with Libraries, EXxamples.Schematic Diagram for Arduino Due,Mega 2560 and Uno . For 8051 microcontroller user,we prepared the detailed tutorial such as interfacing, demo code and development kit at the bottom of this page.

ER-TFTM028IPS-4-IPS is 240x320 dots 2.8" color IPS tft lcd display with ILI9341 controller and board,superior display quality,super full viewing angle and easily controlled by MCU such as 8051, PIC, AVR, ARDUINO,ARM and Raspberry PI.It can be used in any embedded systems,industrial device,security and hand-held equipment which requires display in high quality and colorful image.

It supports 8080 8-bit /9-bit/16-bit /18-bit parallel ,3-wire,4-wire serial spi interface.Built-in optional microSD card slot, 2.8" 4-wire resistive touch panel with controller XPT2046 and 2.8" capacitive touch panel with controller FT6206. It"s optional for font chip, flash chip and microsd card. We offer two types connection,one is pin header and the another is ZIF connector with flat cable mounting on board by default and suggested. Lanscape mode is also available.

Of course, we wouldn"t just leave you with a datasheet and a "good luck!".Here is the link for 2.8"TFT Touch Shield with Libraries, EXxamples.Schematic Diagram for Arduino Due,Mega 2560 and Uno . For 8051 microcontroller user,we prepared the detailed tutorial such as interfacing, demo code and development kit at the bottom of this page.

I gave up on the TFT Menu library when I was working on my project, there isn"t very good documentation except for the example and I only needed a single screen. Maybe I can answer a few questions from the code you posted:

I did a little experimenting with my TFT tonight. My current project has two joysticks attached to my Mega, so I just used these for test sensor values. If you just want to print out sensor values, here is an example sketch that displays time and pot values:

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This TFT display is big (2.8" diagonal) bright (4 white-LED backlight) and colorful (18-bit 262,000 different shades)! 240x320 pixels with individual pixel control. It has way more resolution than a black and white 128x64 display. As a bonus, this display has a resistive touchscreen attached to it already, so you can detect finger presses anywhere on the screen.

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. Solder three jumpers and you can use it at full speed on a Leonardo or Mega as well.

This display shield has a controller built into it with RAM buffering, so that almost no work is done by the microcontroller. This shield needs fewer pins than our v1 shield, so you can connect more sensors, buttons and LEDs: 5 SPI pins for the display, another pin for the SPI touchscreen controller and another pin for uSD card if you want to read images off of it.

The display uses digital pins 13-9. Touchscreen controller requires digital pin 8. microSD pin requires digital #4. That means you can use digital pins 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 and analog 0-5. Pin 4 is available if not using the microSD

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 next example is controlling an RGB LED using these three RGB sliders. For example if we start to slide the blue slider, the LED will light up in blue and increase the light as we would go to the maximum value. So the sliders can move from 0 to 255 and with their combination we can set any color to the RGB LED,  but just keep in mind that the LED cannot represent the colors that much accurate.

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.

As the code is a bit longer and for better understanding I will post the source code of the program in sections with description for each section. And at the end of this article I will post the complete source 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.

Next is the distance sensor button. First we need to set the color and then using the fillRoundRect() function we will draw the rounded rectangle. Then we will set the color back to white and using the drawRoundRect() function we will draw another rounded rectangle on top of the previous one, but this one will be without a fill so the overall appearance of the button looks like it has a frame. On top of the button we will print the text using the big font and the same background color as the fill of the button. The same procedure goes for the two other buttons.

Now we need to make the buttons functional so that when we press them they would send us to the appropriate example. In the setup section we set the character ‘0’ to the currentPage variable, which will indicate that we are at the home screen. So if that’s true, and if we press on the screen this if statement would become true and using these lines here we will get the X and Y coordinates where the screen has been pressed. If that’s the area that covers the first button we will call the drawDistanceSensor() custom function which will activate the distance sensor example. Also we will set the character ‘1’ to the variable currentPage which will indicate that we are at the first example. The drawFrame() custom function is used for highlighting the button when it’s pressed. The same procedure goes for the two other buttons.

So the drawDistanceSensor() custom function needs to be called only once when the button is pressed in order to draw all the graphics of this example in similar way as we described for the home screen. However, the getDistance() custom function needs to be called repeatedly in order to print the latest results of the distance measured by the sensor.

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:

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Add some sizzle to your Arduino project with a beautiful large touchscreen display shield with built in microSD card connection and a capacitive touchscreen. This TFT display is big (2.8" diagonal) bright (4 white-LED backlight) and colorful (18-bit 262,000 different shades)! 240x320 pixels with individual pixel control. It has way more resolution than a black and white 128x64 display. As a bonus, this display has a capacitive touchscreen attached to it already, so you can detect finger presses anywhere on the screen.

This shield is the capacitive version as opposed to the resistive touchscreen we also sell. This touchscreen doesn"t require pressing down on the screen with a stylus, and has a nice glossy glass cover. It is a single-touch display.

This shield uses SPI for the display and SD card and is easier to use with UNO, Mega & Leonardo Arduino"s. The capacitive touchscreen controller uses I2C but you can share the I2C bus with other I2C devices.

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/Duemilanove/Diecimila). Solder three jumpers and you can use it at full speed on a Leonardo or Mega as well.

This display shield has a controller built into it with RAM buffering, so that almost no work is done by the microcontroller. This shield needs fewer pins than our v1 shield, so you can connect more sensors, buttons and LEDs: 5 SPI pins for the display, 2 shared I2C pins for the touchscreen controller and another pin for uSD card if you want to read images off of it.

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

The display uses digital pins 13-9. Touchscreen controller requires I2C pins SDA and SCL. microSD pin requires digital #4. That means you can use digital pins 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8 and analog 0-5. Pin 4 is available if not using the microSD

The first part of this three-part series discussed common touchscreen technologies and their typical use-cases. Then, the second part investigated a few readily available and affordable touch display options for makers and hobbyists. This article documents how to get started with one of the recommended Arduino-compatible 2.8” resistive touchscreens from part two.

The TFT display I use contains a resistive overlay, which allows users to control an Arduino-based project with touch inputs. The display controller that comes with the touchscreen supports a few different communication methods. However, I’ll only outline two of them as I find these to be the most useful. The first method uses eight parallel communication lines to transmit pixel data from the Arduino to the display. I recommend using this method in multimedia applications where the Arduino needs to transfer a lot of pixel data.

Note that I used the SPI method to send data from the Arduino to the display. Either way, in addition to the pixel data lines, you’ll further need to employ two additional digital I/O lines and two more analog pins of the Arduino if you want to add resistive touch detection to your project. In addition, this touchscreen module comes with a built-in micro SD card reader I won’t discuss further in this article.

You have to install two libraries before you can send image data to the TFT display. First, use the Arduino IDE’s built-in library manager to download the Adafruit ILI9341 library. This package handles low-level communication between the Arduino and the display controller IC. Then, download the Adafruit_GFX library. The second library contains helpful code for drawing graphics primitives such as simple shapes and text. I recommend you read this article if you don’t know how to use the library manager in the Arduino IDE.

This short test program first initializes the TFT display in the setup()-function. Then, I defined a few helper methods. The resetAndClearScreen()-method resets the display’s rotation and erases all previously drawn pixels. The next function is drawIntroText(). It prints a short status message in the top left corner of the display. Lastly, drawTouchButton() creates a rectangle at the specified position with the given width and height. Then, the method places a string at the center of the previously drawn rectangle. As the name suggests, I’ll later use these rectangles to detect user inputs. The loop()-method refreshes the screen twice a second. But because there’s no interactivity built into the program yet, users can’t change what the screen displays at this point.

To use the resistive touch capabilities of this display, download the Adafruit_TouchScreen library using the Arduino IDE’s built-in library manager. The example code from above prints a few lines of text and then draws two touch buttons. Next, we’ll have to detect when a user presses one of the buttons. If that happens, the Arduino should refresh the screen and draw all the components using different colors. Therefore, I added the following method to detect whether a user touched one of the buttons:

The touchedWithin()-function is easy to understand. The first parameter represents the coordinates of the detected input. Then, the helper method checks whether these x and y coordinates are within the button’s dimensions.

Before making the previously discussed calls to the various draw-functions, the loop() method also checks whether the user touched the resistive screen. The TSPoint class contains a z-value we can use to determine how hard a user pressed down on the screen. This z-value is also perfect for preventing the Arduino from detecting unwanted inputs. If the z-value is greater than a fixed threshold value, the Arduino detects a touch input. The code then calls the touchedWithin()-function to determine whether the user pressed one of the buttons.

Arduino-compatible touchscreens allow you to quickly add a touchscreen to your existing or new DIY projects. Simple-to-use libraries let you get the display up and running in practically no time. The screen I used offers a few ways for devices to send pixel data to it. A parallel interface allows you to achieve higher screen refresh rates, which might be essential in multimedia applications. The parallel interface is also perfect for MCUs with a large number of I/O pins. The SPI method, on the other hand, is a bit slower compared to parallel communication. It, however, allows you to cut down on the number of required I/O pins, which is the preferred option in most Arduino projects.

The shield is fully assembled, tested, and ready to go. No wiring, no soldering! Simply plug it in and load up the library - you"ll have it running in under 10 minutes!

After that I have been able to connect the touch-sensitive part of the screen as well, and it reads x+, x-, Y+ and y- fairly well using Touch-Screen-Library (https://github.com/adafruit/Touch-Screen-Library) (I still have to some more calibration though).

I have been running into problems when I wanted to actually display something on the screen using TFT LCD library (https://github.com/adafruit/TFTLCD-Library) (and the GFX library (https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit-GFX-Library))...

"Teensy 3.0 has some AVR emulation code for PORTB, PORTD and PORTC to map bit operations to direct manipulation of the Freescale port registers. The register to pin mapping attempts to emulate Arduino Uno."

For what it"s worth, I am not expecting anybody to jump in and do everything for me, but I am looking for any pointers/advice on how to tackle this problem.

Connect the seventh pin RST (Reset) to the Arduino Reset line. This will reset the panel when the Arduino is Reset. You can also use a digital pin for the LCD reset but this will save us a pin.

I checked Nick Gammons Uno R3 reference sheet (http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2012/05/25/handy-arduino-r3-pinout-diagram/) and can only see that Analog 0-3 are not used for any special communications protocol and should be handled as "default" analog pins.

(to try this I had to disconnect the touchscreens x,y analog connections because I had those on the same pins, will reroute those once the screen works)

It should be 0x9328 or 0x9325 so if you see something like 0x8328 that means that the D8 pin is not wired correctly and if you get 0x9228 then pin D0 is not wired correctly.

Adafruit is also selling a shield version of you display and I think you can use this to verify you pin assignment. With this: https://github.com/adafruit/TFTshield/blob/master/schem.png

and this: http://arduino.cc/en/uploads/Main/ArduinoUno_R3_Front.jpg you can figure out how the pin assignment is supposed to work with a shield/UNO. now you need to either replicate or map this to you Teensy.

I have been reading a bit more about port registers (http://www.arduino.cc/en/Reference/PortManipulation) and realized that I probably have been misunderstanding things a bit here.

The Arduino Uno pin/port mapping is already supplied in pin_magic.h, in my first post I didnt realize this was important and (stupidly) did not include it in my quote:

With thanks to immortalSpirit for writing up a detailed guide/howto (http://forum.pjrc.com/threads/17532-Tutorial-on-digital-I-O-ATMega-PIN-PORT-DDR-D-B-registers-vs-ARM-GPIO_PDIR-_PDOR) on the subject I have made some changes to the original code (not using Paul"s code, the original code was easier to convert for me).

As far as I can tell everything is running at high speed, I do not notice any delays during writing/drawing to screen and reading from the touchsensitive pins

Something I noticed concerning screen rotation and touch sensitivity is that if you rotate the display orientation, the touch sensitive parts DO NOT rotate along.

In case anybody else needs it, below you can find the code I used to remap the X and Y coordinates of the touchscreen to the same orientation/dimensions of the display itself:

I just got my teensy3 displaying the graphicstest on my LCD. Your description here of how to do it was just fine, though it took me a couple of tries to get the wiring right (my fault, though)

Once I had the screen running, touch sensitivity was quite straightforward, all I had to modify for it was to match the sense with the rotation of the screens output.

Yes, touch was quite simple, I got it working yesterday. I modified the pins a little to consolidate things and leave me some spare analog pins so my pins are on:

I got this going as well thanks to your guidance. While I was fiddling with the pinouts etc. in pinmagic, I did a couple of other things, in Adafruit_TFTLCD:

inline Adafruit_GFX& operator() (uint8_t x, uint8_t y,uint16_t c) {setCursor(x,y); setTextColor(c); return *this;} //use along w Streaming.h to support: tft(col,line,color)<<"a="<

inline Adafruit_GFX& operator() (uint8_t x, uint8_t y,uint16_t c,uint8_t s) {setCursor(x,y); setTextColor(c); setTextSize(s); return *this;} //use along w Streaming.h to support: tft(col,line,color,size)<<"a="<

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Just wanted to say: I just got this working and compared the speeds of this screen on a Teensy 3.1 vs a Teensy ++2.0. Holy CRAP the 3.1 is fast! The Adafruit graphics test on the Teensy ++ 2.0 takes 10,565ms to run (according to it"s Serial Monitor metrics), while the Teensy 3.1 does it in 1903ms. 5.55x faster! I"m assuming it"s not the full 6x faster (16mhz vs 96mhz) due to overhead of using pinMode (and probably some other stuff) for the T3.

Yes, sort of. I"m using an older version, that"s been modified to work with Teensy 3, Teensy 2++, and I macheted in support for the ILI9341 driver before Adafruit did on their version.

They are not using the current library, as you guessed. I tried patching pin_magic.h with the teensy 3 mods, but more is required for the current TFTLCD library. The library now supports DUE, and the constructor does a lot of work mapping the control pins into port register access for set/clear operations. Maybe the teensy equivalent would be to use

For the hacked together version I"ve been using and testing on a 3.1, the __AVR__ style of pin/port mapping from the new library seems to be what I"ve been using. csPort = portOutputRegister(digitalPinToPort(cs)); etc

OK, I got teensy 3.0 and 3.1 working with current Adafruit libraries. For teensy 3.1, I had to add delayMicroseconds(1) to read8inline so it looks like

And I measured 32.7ma at 3.3v for the TFTLCD, so I powered it from the teensy 3 3.3v pin. This is on older Adafruit TFTLCD, http://www.adafruit.com/products/335

The Lines results (testLines in .cpp) is the total line drawing time. The graphicstest sketch had a bug (in my opinion) that only reported the time for the last test sequence, instead of the sum of all four line drawing sequences, so I corrected the return value to reflect the total time.

OK, maybe I"m confused, but does that library drive the Adafruit display in 8-bit mode (as described at https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-2-dot-8-color-tft-touchscreen-breakout-v2/8-bit-wiring)? The TFTLCD library has the disadvantage of needing more pins, but my impression was that it could achieve a higher throughput of data to the display, or am I mistaken in that as well?

Well, this is awkward. I had a 2.8" ILI9325 screen from Adafruit working on a Teensy 3.0 a couple of years back. I just tried to rebuild the code for that and I seem to have lost some files. Specifically I"m looking for the right Adafruit_TFTLCD library (well, I think that"s all I"m looking for). The current library from Github doesn"t compile with a Teensy3, and I recall I had to edit the pin_magic file as per ZTiK.nl (earlier in this thread). But the later files from Github look different now. I don"t seem to be able to go back to an earlier branch on Github.

I can see Paul has posted an ILI9341_t3 library, but mine is an ILI9325. Has anyone got a working copy of the library that works with my combination posted somewhere? I"d rather not upgrade the hardware at this stage, the problem I have is software.

We’ve done quite a number of tutorials on the use of several displays with Arduino boards and today we will add another tutorial to that list. We will look at the ILI9325 based 2.8″ touchscreen display shown below and how it can be used with the Arduino to deliver a better user experience for your projects.

For today’s tutorial, we will use the ILI9325 driver based, 2.8″ display from Geekcreit. The display comes as a shield so it’s ready to be used for Arduino based projects. It is an 18-bit color display with a total of 262,000 different color shades. The display has a resolution of 240 x 320 pixels with individual pixel control.

Today’s project involves some very simple tasks which we will use to demonstrate the capabilities of the display. We will create a button which when touched, will trigger the Arduino to display a message on the screen. At the end of today’s tutorial, we would have gone through how to create a user interface on the touchscreen, how to detect when the screen is touched and how to display data on the screen.

The Arduino Mega or any of the other Arduino board can be used for this project and the power bank comes in handy when the project is to be used in a standalone mode. As usual, the exact components used for this tutorial can be purchased via the links attached to each of them.

The 2.8″ TFT display used for this project comes as a shield with the form factor of the Arduino Uno. This makes it easy to connect the shield to boards like the Uno, Mega and Due, as all we need to do, is plug it directly into the board, eliminating all the mess made by wires.  Plug the display to the Arduino as shown in the image below.

The fact that the display comes as a shield becomes a disadvantage when its used with the Arduino Uno as it occupies almost all the pins leaving just 2 digital pins and one analog pin for other uses. This can however, be overcome by using either the Arduino Mega or Due as they both work perfectly well with the display.

The code for this tutorial is heavily reliant on a modified version of Adafruit’s TFT LCD,GFX and touchscreen libraries. These libraries can be downloaded from the links attached to them.

As mentioned earlier, our focus for this tutorial will be to demonstrate, how UI can be created on the display and interpret touches to trigger actions. To achieve this, we will develop a simple sketch which displays a Youtube subscribe button. When the subscribe button is pressed, a text is displayed on the screen.

Calibration needs to be done before the touchscreen functionality of this display can be used. To calibrate the screen, we upload the code and Open the Serial Monitor to obtain the values of the display’s edges. Click (touch) on the top left corner of the display and write down the X and Y values displayed on the serial monitor. Then we edit the code to reflect those values. The X value goes to the TS_MAXX variable and the Y value goes to the TS_MAXY variable. Next, click on the bottom right corner of the display and enter the values displayed on the serial monitor for the TS_MINX and TS_MINY variables. With this done our display is now calibrated and ready for use.

Next, we declare the colors to be used with their hexadecimal values and we create an object of the Adafruit TFTLCD library, indicating the variables used to represent the pins of the Arduino to which the display is connected.

We start by initializing the serial monitor and the display. After this, we set the orientation of the LCD and fill the screen with a black color to serve as the background.

Next, we create the red Youtube subscribe button. To achieve this, we create a red rectangle and for our size requirements, we set the x and y pixel coordinates of the top left corner point of this rectangle to (60,180), define its width as 200 pixels, its height as 40 pixels and set pixel coordinates for the bottom right of the rectangle to (260, 220). To make the rectangle look more like a button, we draw a similar white rectangle outside of the red rectangle and write the “Subscribe” text on it.

With the setup function all done, we move to the loop function, the algorithm in operation for the loop section is simple, each time the user clicks on the screen, we convert the point coordinates of the touch point into pixels using the Map function. After conversion, if that point is inside the red rectangle area, it means that the user has pressed the button, so we disable the button by setting this variable to false and we clear the screen so to display the “Thank you for Subscribing” message on the screen.

Copy the code above and create a new Arduino sketct. Ensure the libraries are installed and upload the code to the setup described under the schematics section. Once the upload is complete, you should see the display come up as shown below.

That’s it for this tutorial guys. Feel free to expand this code for use in your projects and do not hesitate to let me know via the comment section if you have any questions.

This 2.8" LCD Shield from Waveshare is for the Arduino and also support resistive touch. The TFT screen support 32x2400 resolution. The screen has a standard Arduino interface and is compatible Arduino UNO and Leonardo.

The 2.8" screen has an onboard stand-alone touch controller, better touching than solutions that use AD pins directly for touch control. The PWM backlight control allows you to adjust the backlight to a comfortable level, and the micro SD slot provides an easy way to store photos for displaying. Controlled via SPI, and only a few Arduino pins are used.

Spice up your Arduino project with a beautiful large touchscreen display shield with built in microSD card connection. This TFT display is big (2.8" diagonal) bright (4 white-LED backlight) and colorful (18-bit 262,000 different shades)! 240x320 pixels with individual pixel control. It has way more resolution than a black and white 128x64 display. As a bonus, this display has a resistive touchscreen attached to it already, so you can detect finger presses anywhere on the screen. (We also have a capacitive-touch version of this shield here)

We"ve updated our original v1 shield to an SPI display - its a tiny bit slower but uses a lot less pins and is now much easier to use with Mega & Leonardo. We also include an SPI touchscreen controller so you only need one additional pin to add a high quality touchscreen controller. Even with all the extras, the price is lower thanks to our parts sourcing & engineering skillz!

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/Duemilanove/Diecimila). Solder three jumpers and you can use it at full speed on a Leonardo or Mega as well.

This display shield has a controller built into it with RAM buffering, so that almost no work is done by the microcontroller. This shield needs fewer pins than our v1 shield, so you can connect more sensors, buttons and LEDs: 5 SPI pins for the display, another pin for the SPI touchscreen controller and another pin for uSD card if you want to read images off of it.