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Yes, Chinese Vendors tend to package hacked versions of old libraries. e.g. this seems to be based on UTFT v2.79 and UTouch has now been replaced by URTouch.

Readers will be happy to help with any adjustments required for up to date libraries. But only when you post accurate information. i.e. which ZIP example by name, which ZIP library by name.

Spice up your Arduino project with a beautiful large touchscreen display shield with built in microSD card connection. This TFT display is big (5" diagonal) bright (12 white-LED backlight) and colorfu 480x272 pixels with individual pixel control. As a bonus, this display has a optional resistive or capacitive touch panel with controller, attached by default.

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 (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.

Spice up your Arduino project with a beautiful large touchscreen display shield with built in microSD card connection. This TFT display is big (2.3" diagonal) bright (4 white-LED backlight) and colorful (18-bit 262,000 different shades)! 320x240 pixels with individual pixel control.

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.

The Arduino TFT screen is a backlit TFT LCD screen with a micro SD card slot in the back. You can draw text, images, and shapes to the screen with the TFT library.

The Arduino TFT library extends the Adafruit GFX, and Adafruit ST7735 libraries that it is based on. The GFX library is responsible for the drawing routines, while the ST7735 library is specific to the screen on the Arduino screen. The Arduino specific additions were designed to work as similarly to the Processing API as possible.

The TFT library relies on the SPI library, which must be included in any sketch that uses the scree. If you wish to use the SD card, you need to include the SD library as well.

If you are using an Esplora, the structure of the program is the exact same. As the Esplora has a socket designed for the screen, and the pins for using the screen are fixed, an Esplora only object is created when targeting sketches for that board. You can reference the screen attached to an Esplora through EsploraTFT.

To give the illusion of motion, you need to quickly erase and draw images on the screen. When using Processing on a powerful computer, you can call background() every time through your draw() function to erase the window contests and dra objects in their new positions. The Arduino is not as fast, is it takes a little time to clear the screen when calling background() with the TFT library.

The TFT library includes a basic font for drawing text on screen. By default, characters are 5 pixels wide and 8 pixels tall. It is possible to change the font size to 10x16, 15x24, or 20x32. For additional information on the underlying font capabilities, see the Adafruit page on graphic primitives.

In this example, you"ll create a basic counter that will update a number on screen every half second. As in the earlier examples, include the necessary libraries and variables before setup().

The TFT library has the ability to read .bmp files off a SD card and display them on the screen. Images can be smaller or larger than the screen resolution (160x128), but there is no method on the Arduino for image manipulation. The images should be sized before you put them on the SD card.

In addition to the libraries you have been including to this point, you will also need to include the SD library. You"ll also need to declare a CS pin for the SD slot.

Now that you have tested the basic functionality of the screen, see the TFT library pages for information about the library"s API and additional examples. See the hardware page for more information about the screen"s components. It"s also recommended to visit the Adafruit graphics library page for additional information on functions not covered.

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Hi guys, over the past few tutorials, we have been discussing TFT displays, how to connect and use them in Arduino projects, especially the 1.8″ Colored TFT display. In a similar way, we will look at how to use the 1.44″ TFT Display (ILI9163C) with the Arduino.

The ILI9163C based 1.44″ colored TFT Display, is a SPI protocol based display with a resolution of 128 x 128 pixels. It’s capable of displaying up to 262,000 different colors. The module can be said to be a sibling to the 1.8″ TFT display, except for the fact that it is much faster and has a better, overall cost to performance ratio when compared with the 1.8″ TFT display. Some of the features of the display are listed below;

TheTFT Display, as earlier stated, communicates with the microcontroller over SPI, thus to use it, we need to connect it to the SPI pins of the Arduino as shown in the schematics below.

Please note that the version of the display used for this tutorial is not available on fritzing which is the software used for the schematics, so follow the pin connection list below to further understand how each pin of the TFT display should be connected to the Arduino.

When connecting the display, ensure that has a voltage regulator (shown in the image below) before connecting it directly to the 5v logic level of the Arduino. This is because the display could be destroyed if the version of the display you have does not have the regulator.

In order to allow the Arduino to work with the display, we need two Arduino libraries; the sumotoy TFT ILI9163C Arduino library which can be downloaded from this link and the popular Adafruit GFX Arduino library which we have used extensively in several tutorials. Download these libraries and install them in the Arduino IDE.

For today’s tutorial, we will be using the bigtest example which is one of the example codes that comes with the sumotoy ILI9163C Arduino library to show how to use the TFT display.

The example can be opened by going to File–>Examples–>TFT_ILI9163c–>bigtest as shown in the image below. It should be noted that this will only be available after the sumotoy library has been installed.

Next, an object of the ILI9163c library named “display” was created with CS and DC parameter as inputs but due to the kind of display being used, we need to include the pin of the Arduino to which the A0 pin of the TFT display is connected which is D8.

With this done, we move to the void setup() function. Under this function, we issue the commands that initialize the display then create a time variable updated by millis, after which we issue a command to clear the screen and display some random text on it.

Some of the functions which perform actions ranging from displaying fastlines, drawing rectangles etc are then called with a delay after each function so the text or graphics stays long enough on the screen to be visible.

Up next is the void loop function. The void loop function also calls some of the same functions called under the void setup() function to display circles, rectangles etc including the testline function which is essentially used to test the screen.

With the libraries installed, open an instance of the Arduino IDE, open the examples as described initially, don’t forget to make the A0 pin (D8) correction to the code then upload to the Arduino board. You should see different kind of text and graphics being displayed on the screen. I captured the screen in action and its shown in the image below.

That’s it for this tutorial guys, what interesting thing are you going to build with this display? Let’s get the conversation started. Feel free to reach me via the comment section if you have any questions about the tutorial.

When the system is pluged in to power, it will connect to the WiFi (the connection informations --- ssid and password ---, must be configured in code ), will display an inspirational quote for one hour and go to sleep for 24 hours. After the long sleep, it will connect again to the WiFi, display another quote and go to sleep. Again and again.

This seems to be all, but... IT IS NOT! The RTC from ESP8266, when this microcontroller is in DeepSleepMode, is not very precise ( in my tests it will fall behind with at least 1 hour in 23 hours of DeepSleep ). So to fix this issue, I made the ESP8266 to take the time from an NTP Server, after displaying the quote for an hour, and storing the hours and minutes in the RTC memory. When the 7 cycles of waking-up and going back to sleep, the ESP8266 take again the time from the NTP Server and compare the stored time with the one took seconds ago. If the hour stored is later than the current hour, the ESP8266 will go to DeepSleep for the remaining time between the two intervals of time ( the stored one and the current one ).Else, if the number of minutes stored are greater than the number of current minutes, the ESP8266 will go to LightSleep for the remaining number of minutes between the two intervals of time ( this time, the RTC is precise enough to wake up the ESP8266 at the exact time ).

So I have a sketch that utilizes both the RFM69 and TFT libraries and there seems to be a conflict between the two. Each half of the sketch works flawlessly without the other, i.e. I comment out the radio.initialize() or TFTdisplay.begin() line for either the TFT or RFM69. However, when together neither works. The moteino fails to receive data through the radio commands and the TFT screen remains black or displays static white noise.

I have already check to make sure there are no pin conflicts. Also the order of initialization does not mater either, I"ve tried both ways with the same result. One puzzling development I discovered though is if I disconnect the MISO pin (pin 12) to the TFT display then then both the display and RFM69 initialize and function properly, but the screen has a noticeable flicker to it which I am wondering if it is a result from disconnecting MISO.

In case anyone is interested, I want to use some of these ILI9341/0 displays on both Teensy based stuff as well as Arduino (actually an Atmega644 based board) based system, and I still want the ability to read pixels. In particular where I am wanting this is for Debug text output where I can scroll the text...

I adapted the read pixel test program mentioned earlier in this thread (could not use printf on stream, change library name...) and so far it appears to work on a Teensy 3.1 with PJRC ILI9341 display as well as on an Arbotix-M board (Atmega 644p) using Adafruit 2.2" TFT display (ILI9340). So should work fine on Atmega328p based systems as well. I have not tested it on an Arduino Due yet. I have one buried around here somewhere

Thin film transistor liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) is a variant of liquid crystal display (LCD) which uses thin-film transistor (TFT) technology to improve image quality (e.g., addressability, contrast).

TFT LCDs are used in television sets, computer monitors, mobile phones, handheld video game systems, personal digital assistants, navigation systems, projectors, etc.

procedure TFT_Set_Brush(brush_enabled : byte; brush_color : word; gradient_enabled, gradient_orientation : byte; gradient_color_from, gradient_color_to : word);

In this guide we’re going to show you how you can use the 1.8 TFT display with the Arduino. You’ll learn how to wire the display, write text, draw shapes and display images on the screen.

The 1.8 TFT is a colorful display with 128 x 160 color pixels. The display can load images from an SD card – it has an SD card slot at the back. The following figure shows the screen front and back view.

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 TFT display communicates with the Arduino via SPI communication, so you need to include the SPI library on your code. We also use the TFT library to write and draw on the display.

In which “Hello, World!” is the text you want to display and the (x, y) coordinate is the location where you want to start display text on the screen.

The 1.8 TFT display can load images from the SD card. To read from the SD card you use the SD library, already included in the Arduino IDE software. Follow the next steps to display an image on the display:

Note: some people find issues with this display when trying to read from the SD card. We don’t know why that happens. In fact, we tested a couple of times and it worked well, and then, when we were about to record to show you the final result, the display didn’t recognized the SD card anymore – we’re not sure if it’s a problem with the SD card holder that doesn’t establish a proper connection with the SD card. However, we are sure these instructions work, because we’ve tested them.

In this guide we’ve shown you how to use the 1.8 TFT display with the Arduino: display text, draw shapes and display images. You can easily add a nice visual interface to your projects using this display.

Download each library and unzip the folders. Rename them to "Adafruit_ST7735" and "Adafruit_GFX" and place each folder inside your Arduino Libraries folder. I"ve attached a screenshot of the libraries in the correct folder. Once installed, you are ready to operate the screen! Inside the Adafruit ST7735 library is a file called graphicstest.ino which you can upload to your Arduino and it will run through a number of functions that draw objects to the screen. However, this file will need some altering to adapt the pins to your layout.