blue pill - st7735s tft display supplier

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The STM32 board to be used for this tutorial is none other than the STM32F103C8T6 chip based STM32F1 development board commonly referred to as “Blue Pill” in line with the blue color of its PCB. Blue Pill is powered by the powerful 32-bit STM32F103C8T6 ARM processor, clocked at 72MHz. The board operates on 3.3v logic levels but its GPIO pins have been tested to be 5v tolerant. While it does not come with WiFi or Bluetooth like the ESP32 and Arduino variants, it offers 20KB of RAM and 64KB of flash memory which makes it adequate for large projects. It also possesses 37 GPIO pins, 10 of which can be used for Analog sensors since they have ADC enabled, along with others which are enabled for SPI, I2C, CAN, UART, and DMA. For a board which costs around $3, you will agree with me that these are impressive specs. A summarized version of these specifications compared with that of an Arduino Uno is shown in the image below.

Based on the specs above, the frequency at which Blue pill operates is about 4.5 times higher than an Arduino UNO, for today’s tutorial, as an example on how to use the STM32F1 board, we will connect it to a 1.44″ TFT display and program it to calculate the “Pi” constant. We will note how long it took the board to obtain the value an compare it with the time it takes an Arduino Uno to perform the same task.

As usual, all the components used for this tutorial can be bought from the attached links. The power bank is however only needed if you want to deploy the project in a stand-alone mode.

As mentioned earlier, we will connect the STM32F1 board to the1.8″ ST7735 based colored TFT Display along with a push button. The push button will be used to instruct the board to start the calculation.

Start by adding the link for the STM32 board to the Arduino preference lists. Go to File -> Preferences, then enter this URL ( http://dan.drown.org/stm32duino/package_STM32duino_index.json ) in the box as indicated below and click ok.

With this done, we create an object of the ST7735 library which will be used to reference the display all through the entire project. We also indicate the pin of the STM32 to which the pushbutton is connected and create a variable to hold its state.

We start by setting the pinMode() of the pin to which the pushbutton is connected, activating an internal pull-up resistor on the pin since the pushbutton connects to ground when pressed.

Next, we initialize serial communication and the screen, setting the background of the display to black and calling the printUI() function to display the interface.

We start by reading the state of the push button. If the button has been pressed, we remove the current message on the screen using the removePressKeyText() and draw the changing progress bar using the drawBar() function. We then call the start calculation function to obtain and display the value of Pi along with the time it took to calculate it.

The remaining part of the code are the functions called to achieve the tasks from drawing the bar to calculating the Pi. Most of these functions have been covered in several other tutorials that involve the use of the ST7735 display.

With the code complete, follow the upload process described above to upload the code to your setup. You should see the display come up as shown in the Image below.

Press the pushbutton to start the calculation. You should see the progress bar slide gradually until the end. At the end of the process, the value of Pi is displayed along with the time which the calculation took.

Comparing these two values, we see that “Blue Pill” is over 7 times faster than the Arduino Uno. This makes it ideal for projects which involves heavy processing and time constraints. The small size of the Blue pill also serves as an advantage here as it is only a bit bigger than the Arduino nano and it can be used in place where the Nano won’t be fast enough.

That’s it for today’s tutorial guys. What will you be building with the Blue Pill? feel free to share along with any questions you might have, under the comment section.

A key reference was an existing Arduino library called MCUFRIEND_kbvThis library supports a huge array of different display types and extracting the code specific to

A common use-case for an MCU is to let it sleep/idle most of the time (to conserve energy) and wait on an interrupt. With the GD32VF103 (and the Nuclei SDK) this can be achieved like this:

IPS (In-Plane Switching) lcd is still a type of TFT LCD, IPS TFT is also called SFT LCD (supper fine tft ),different to regular tft in TN (Twisted Nematic) mode, theIPS LCD liquid crystal elements inside the tft lcd cell, they are arrayed in plane inside the lcd cell when power off, so the light can not transmit it via theIPS lcdwhen power off, When power on, the liquid crystal elements inside the IPS tft would switch in a small angle, then the light would go through the IPS lcd display, then the display on since light go through the IPS display, the switching angle is related to the input power, the switch angle is related to the input power value of IPS LCD, the more switch angle, the more light would transmit the IPS LCD, we call it negative display mode.

The regular tft lcd, it is a-si TN (Twisted Nematic) tft lcd, its liquid crystal elements are arrayed in vertical type, the light could transmit the regularTFT LCDwhen power off. When power on, the liquid crystal twist in some angle, then it block the light transmit the tft lcd, then make the display elements display on by this way, the liquid crystal twist angle is also related to the input power, the more twist angle, the more light would be blocked by the tft lcd, it is tft lcd working mode.

A TFT lcd display is vivid and colorful than a common monochrome lcd display. TFT refreshes more quickly response than a monochrome LCD display and shows motion more smoothly. TFT displays use more electricity in driving than monochrome LCD screens, so they not only cost more in the first place, but they are also more expensive to drive tft lcd screen.The two most common types of TFT LCDs are IPS and TN displays.

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If a button is pressed it means that the user wants the cursor to move from one digit of the frequency in the display to the next. (7 is the most significant digit, 1 is the least significant, digit with numer 0 is used for the selection of the frequency range)

The last function to mention is the "display_cursor" function, this places a cursor under the active digit. Because of the decimal point this place isn"t in a fixed place for the digits numbered 5 and 6.