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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.

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.

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:

This module uses SPI communication – see the wiring below . To control the display we’ll use the TFT library, which is already included with Arduino IDE 1.0.5 and later.

The LCD display module is a type of display used in digital clocks and many portable computers. It uses two pieces of polarized material with a liquid crystal solution between them. The LCD display module is a very delicate thing, which has many advantages such as low power consumption, no radiation, no dizziness, and so on. And it protects the eyesight of the user to a great extent. With the development of liquid crystal display technology and the continuous decline of liquid crystal prices, today"s liquid crystal display has become a must-have electronic product for many people. So what are the components of the LCD screen?

The LCD panel is commonly known as glass. It is the most important core component of the LCD display module. The quality of a display mainly depends on the quality of the LCD panel, which directly affects the sensory experience of the screen. The LCD panel is generally produced as a large board, which is cut into small boards according to different sizes and becomes a core component.

The backlight refers to the light source behind the LCD display module. Without the light source, the display screen will not have any display. The components of the backlight are composed of the light source, the light guide plate, the optical film, and other structural parts. The backlight can control the brightness according to the lamp beads and power consumption. If you need high brightness, you can change it according to the structure of the backlight. Of course, you cannot turn up the screen without a limit. The degree of its brightness is designed based on the internal structure and power consumption of the whole machine.

FPC flexible circuit board, which is a flexible circuit board with high wiring density, lightweight, thin thickness, and good bendability. The LCD display module conducts electricity through the FPC to realize the display function. It is also an important component that is indispensable. Of course, FPC is not the only conductive component. Some large screens are energized through USB and other interfaces. FPC is a common conductive component for small and medium-sized LCD display modules.

The LCD display module has strict requirements on air humidity, so it must be able to work in a relatively dry environment. In particular, moisture cannot be brought into the interior of the display screen, so this is particularly critical for some users whose working environment is relatively humid. If there is water in the LCD screen, what you need to do is place it in a dry place to allow the water to evaporate. Do not turn on the power rashly at this time. Otherwise, the LCD electrodes of the screen will be corroded, causing liquid crystal damage to the display.

Since the use of an LCD requires many microcontroller pins, we will reduce that number using serial communication, which is basically sending "packages" of data one after another, using only two pins of our microcontroller , pins SDA and SCL which are the analog pins A4 and A5 of the Arduino NANO or pro mini.

First of all we connect i2c pins module as shown in the schematic. Power the LCD module to 5 volts and connect the ground as well. The SDA pin of the i2c module conected to arduinio A5 and the SCL pin to A4. We connect the arduino to USB and we are ready to program. In order to make the LCD work we need to inport the LCD library for arduino.

Your new 0.96" 80 x 160 Full Color IPS LCD Module is a compact and useful display, that require a small amount of time to get working with your Arduino or compatible board.

In many of the projects, we print the messages on the Serial monitor. But, the monitor may not become be a part of compact devices that need to display the messages. For instance, take an example of a small weather station that is used in industrial and other automation to display the weather conditions. This portable device must need anything that receives the message and display that, Here comes the LCD.

Also, when we print the messages on the serial monitor, it contains both numbers and characters both. However, if you specifically require printing the character, use the character LCD which we are going to discuss in this tutorial. So, in this tutorial, we are going to interface ” 16×2 Character LCD Module with Arduino UNO”.

This character LCD comprises 16 columns and two rows. Hence it can print 32 characters, 16 characters in each row. A character is made up of 5* 8-pixel dots. This means, every character is made from 40 pixels and 32 characters may have 1280 pixels. On the backside of the LCD, the board contains the integrated circuit HD44780 that is used to get the command and data and process those commands to display the message on the LCD screen.

This LCD module is mostly used in embedded electronic projects. The module is more promising because of its cheap prices and easy availability in the market. The module has sixteen pins that contain the ground, Vcc, Vo, RS, R/W, Enable, data pins, etc. There is no doubt about the functionality and cheap prices f this module. However, the module needs many pins to an interface which makes it a little difficult to handle.

Connect 16×2 Character LCD Module with Arduino UNO according to the given diagram. Then write the code given in this article. Now, upload the code. See the message that would appear on the LCD screen.

Include the liquid crystal library. create the liquid crystal object called LCD. The object has six parameters that show the Arduino pins which are connected with RS, Enable, data pins (d4, d5, d6, d7) of the module.

In the void setup, initialize the LCD by LCD. begin( ). Hence in the bracket define the parameters, that is column and row respectively. use LCD. clear to clear the LCD.

In the void loop, print the message Hello world1 by using LCD. print. Use setCursor( ) and specifies the position for the next message by defining rows and columns. After that, print the next message.

LCD panel prices have risen for 4 months in a row because of your home gaming? Since this year, the whole LCD panel market has smoked. Whether after the outbreak of the epidemic, LCD panel market prices rose for four months, or the panel giants in Japan and South Korea successively sold production lines, or the Chinese mainland listed companies frequently integrated acquisition, investment, and plant construction, all make the industry full of interesting.

LCD panel prices are already a fact. Since May this year, LCD panel prices have risen for four months in a row, making the whole industry chain dynamic. Why are LCD panels going up in price in a volatile 2020? The key factor lies in the imbalance between supply and demand.

The price of LCDS for large-size TVs of 70 inches or more hasn’t budged much. In addition, LTPS screens and AMOLED screens used in high-end phones have seen little or no increase in price.

As for October, LCD panel price increases are expected to moderate. The data shows that in October 32 inches or 2 dollars; Gains of 39.5 to 43 inches will shrink to $3;55 inches will fall back below $10; The 65-inch gain will narrow to $5.

During the epidemic, people stayed at home and had no way to go out for entertainment. They relied on TV sets, PCS, and game consoles for entertainment. After the resumption of economic work and production, the market of traditional home appliances picked up rapidly, and LCD production capacity was quickly digested.

However, due to the shutdown of most factories lasting 1-2 months during the epidemic period, LCD panel production capacity was limited, leading to insufficient production capacity in the face of the market outbreak, which eventually led to the market shortage and price increase for 4 consecutive months.

In fact, the last round of price rise of LCD panels was from 2016 to 2017, and its overall market price has continued to fall since 2018. Even in 2019, individual types have fallen below the material cost, and the whole industry has experienced a general operating loss. As a result, LCD makers have been looking for ways to improve margins since last year.

A return to a reasonable price range is the most talked about topic among panel makers in 2019, according to one practitioner. Some manufacturers for the serious loss of the product made the decision to reduce production or even stop production; Some manufacturers planned to raise the price, but due to the epidemic in 2020, the downstream demand was temporarily suppressed and the price increase was postponed. After the outbreak was contained in April, LCD prices began to rise in mid-to-late May.

In fact, the market price of LCD panels continued to decline in 2018-2019 because of the accelerated rise of China’s LCD industry and the influx of a large number of local manufacturers, which doubled the global LCD panel production capacity within a few years, but there was no suitable application market to absorb it. The result of excess capacity is oversupply, ultimately making LCD panel prices remain depressed.

Against this background, combined with the impact of the epidemic in 2020, the operating burden of LCD companies in Japan and South Korea has been further aggravated, and it is difficult to make profits in the production of LCD panels, so they have to announce the withdrawal of LCD business.

business in June 2022. In August, Sharp bought JDI Baishan, a plant in Ishikawa prefecture that makes liquid crystal display panels for smartphones. In early September, Samsung Display sold a majority stake in its SUZHOU LCD production plant to Starlight Electronics Technology, a unit of TCL Technology Group. LGD has not only pulled out of some of its production capacity but has announced that it will close its local production line in 2020. According to DSCC, a consultancy, the share of LCD production capacity in South Korea alone will fall from 19% to 7% between 2020 and 2021.

It is worth mentioning that in industry analysis, in view of the fact that Korean companies are good at using “dig through old bonus – selling high price – the development of new technology” the cycle of development mode, another 2020 out of the LCD production capacity, the main reason may be: taking the advantage of China’s expanding aggressively LCD manufacturers, Korean companies will own LCD panel production line hot sell, eliminating capacity liquid to extract its final value, and turning to the more profitable advantage of a new generation of display technologies, such as thinner, color display better OLED, etc. Samsung, for example, has captured more than 80% of the OLED market with its first-mover advantage.

From the perspective of production capacity, the launch of LCD tracks by major manufacturers in Japan and South Korea must reduce some production capacity in the short term, which to some extent induces market price fluctuations. In the long run, some of the Japanese and Korean LCD production capacity has been bought by Chinese manufacturers, coupled with frequent investment in recent years, the overall capacity is sure to recover as before, or even more than before. But now it will take time to expand the production layout, which more or less will cause supply imbalance, the industry needs to be cautious.

The LCD panel industry started in the United States and then gradually moved to Japan, South Korea, China, and Taiwan. At present, the proportion of production capacity in The Chinese mainland has reached 52% in 2020, and there are leading LCD panel products in China represented by BOE, Huxing Optoelectronics. Meanwhile, the production capacity layout of BOE, Huike, Huxing Optoelectronics, and other manufacturers has been basically completed, making industrial integration a necessity.

On the one hand, South Korean enterprises out of the LCD track, the domestic factory horse enclosure, plant expansion action. While LCDs may not sell as well as “upstart” flexible screens, respondents believe they are still strong enough in the traditional home appliance market to warrant continued investment. Zhao Bin, general manager of TCL Huaxing Development Center, has said publicly that the next-generation display technology will be mature in four to five years, but the commercialization of products may not take place until a decade later. “LCD will still be the mainstream in this decade,” he said.

On the other hand, there is no risk of neck jam in China’s LCD panel industry, which is generally controllable. In mainland China, there will be 21 production lines capable of producing 32-inch or larger LCD panels by 2021, accounting for about two-thirds of the global total. In terms of the proportion of production capacity, the Chinese mainland accounted for 42% of the global LCD panel in 2019, 51% this year, and will continue to climb to 63% next year.

Of course, building factories and expanding production cannot be accomplished overnight. In the process of production capacity recovery, it is predicted that there will be several price fluctuations, and the cost may be passed on to the downstream LCD panel manufacturers or consumers when the price rises greatly, which requires continuous attention.

Displays have over time, emerged as one of the best ways to drive user interactions on any device. They make it easy to collect inputs and present information (outputs) to users in a graphical, easy to understand format. This usefulness has led to improvements in their quality, with improved resolution and low power features, but almost little has changed when it comes to the complexity of creating beautiful user interfaces for them. This is why the team at STONE Tech created the STVC035WT-01 intelligent Smart display which we will explore for today’s tutorial.

At the end of this tutorial, you would know how to interface Arduino boards with the STONETech displays, and also how to interface sensors like the MAX30100 with the Arduino.

There are two major ways of creating a GUI. One is to create the GUI using only the elements (buttons, text boxes, etc) that are available within the GUI Design tool, while the second is to create a mockup image using image editing tools like Photoshop/Paint.NET, import the image into the GUI Desing tool software and place the GUI design elements on the image. For this tutorial, we will go with the second option as it allows more flexibility and gives room for the development of truly beautiful GUIs.

As mentioned during the introduction, today’s tutorial will focus on creating a heart rate and Oxygen-level monitoring system using the display and to get things started, we create the GUI image (shown below) using Photoshop.

4. Next, we add fonts to the project’s assets to determine how texts appear on the display. Right-click the “Font” file, and select the appropriate font to add to the project. For this tutorial, we will use the ASCII 24 by 48 font. With that done we are now ready to begin adding the GUI elements.

Plug the USB flash drive into the computer then click the “Download to u-disk” button on the STONE GUI TOOL.With the “download to u-disk” process complete, pull out the USB flash disk, insert it into the USB interface of the display module and wait for the completion of the upgrade. When the upgrade is completed, there will be a prompt sound.

The model of the STONE display being used for this tutorial communicates via RS232, as such, to be able to interface the display with the Arduino, we have to connect it through a MAX3232 chip. This extra requirement can be avoided by using one of the STONE displays with a TTL interface.

Go over the connections once again to be sure everything is properly connected. With this done we can now proceed to the Arduino code to send commands and data to the LCD.

To use the Color OLED module, it is important to understand its coordinate system. Most computer graphics, displays, and terminals follow a similar convention - the top-left corner is the origin.

The cursor is the point where the Color OLED module begins printing text or numbers. If you set the cursor to (0,0), it will print text beginning at the top-left corner. If you set the cursor to (2,2), it will begin printing text 2 pixels left and 2 pixels down from the top-left corner:

With the TKLCD module you can write text on the module’s screen in a few minutes. It has an LCD display on board and it requires a dedicated software library that is available here. The LCD can be used like a regular module by plugging it into the TinkerKit! shield or as an independent component; it has in fact a microcontroller and a USB port on board that make it a fully-fledged LCD-shaped Arduino Leonardo.

Using a four-connectors wire or 4-pin jumper wire, the LCD module can be hooked-up to the SERIAL port on the TinkerKit! Shield. To work properly it has to be loaded with the right firmware; it is nothing more than a particular Arduino sketch and it’s located inside the examples of the TKLCD library. You can open it from File->Examples->TKLCD->SerialFirmware Mind that this firmware must be uploaded on the LCD module, and not on an Arduino. Connect the module using the USB cable, (the Arduino software recognizes it as an Arduino Leonardo) then load the firmware. You don’t have to upload the firmware every time, just remember to reload it if you upload something else on the module, and then you want to use it again from the serial. Once the firmware is uploaded and the module is connected to the Serial port, open the Arduino software and include the following libraries:TKLCD, LiquidCrystal and Wire. The TKLCD library has two different classes, one for each use; in our case, we are using it via serial port so we have to declare it as TKLCD_Serial in the globals (before the setup):

One of the cool features of the LCD module is that it doesn’t need an Arduino or TinkerKit! shield to run. It can be connected straight to the USB port of your computer exactly like an Arduino Leonardo, then, once the code is finished, just select “Arduino Leonardo” from the board’s list and upload. To control the LCD we have to include the following libraries: TKLCD, LiquidCrystal and Wire, then declare the LCD as TKLCD_Local in the globals (before the setup):

From now on we have a series of methods that we can apply to the lcd object it inside the loop function. Just browse into the examples folder of the TKLCD library or read the library’s reference to see all of them.

The TinkerKit! LCD module mounts nine connectors on the board. Six of these, the ones with the three-pins layout, can be used with other TinkerKit! modules. Don’t be confused by the labels, the A0, A1 and A2 are analog inputs and D5, D6 and D11 are outputs but they can also be used as digital inputs. Use them like regular inputs and outputs, just remember to include the TinkerKit! library in addition to the TKLCD and to declare them using the right port:

In the following sketch we use the LCD module to display the temperature. We use it as a stand-alone module with a thermistor connected directly to one of its input ports.