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No! For about the price of a familiar 2x16 LCD, you get a high resolution TFT display. For as low as $4 (shipping included!), it"s possible to buy a small, sharp TFT screen that can be interfaced with an Arduino. Moreover, it can display not just text, but elaborate graphics. These have been manufactured in the tens of millions for cell phones and other gadgets and devices, and that is the reason they are so cheap now. This makes it feasible to reuse them to give our electronic projects colorful graphic displays.

There are quite a number of small cheap TFT displays available on eBay and elsewhere. But, how is it possible to determine which ones will work with an Arduino? And what then? Here is the procedure:ID the display. With luck, it will have identifying information printed on it. Otherwise, it may involve matching its appearance with a picture on Google images. Determine the display"s resolution and the driver chip.

Find out whether there is an Arduino driver available. Google is your friend here. Henning Karlsen"s UTFT library works with many displays. (http://www.rinkydinkelectronics.com/library.php?i...)

Download and install the driver library. On a Linux machine, as root, copy the library archive file to the /usr/share/arduino/libraries directory and untar or unzip it.

Load an example sketch into the Arduino IDE, and then upload it to the attached Arduino board with wired-up TFT display. With luck, you will see text and/or graphics.

We"ll begin with a simple one. The ILI9163 display has a resolution of 128 x 128 pixels. With 8 pins in a single row, it works fine with a standard Arduino UNO or with a Mega. The hardware hookup is simple -- only 8 connections total! The library put together by a smart fella, by the name of sumotoy, makes it possible to display text in multiple colors and to draw lines.

Note that these come in two varieties, red and black. The red ones may need a bit of tweaking to format the display correctly -- see the comments in the README.md file. The TFT_ILI9163C.h file might need to be edited.

It is 5-volt friendly, since there is a 74HC450 IC on the circuit board that functions as a level shifter. These can be obtained for just a few bucks on eBay and elsewhere, for example -- $3.56 delivered from China. It uses Henning Karlsen"s UTFT library, and it does a fine job with text and graphics. Note that due to the memory requirement of UTFT, this display will work with a standard UNO only with extensive tweaking -- it would be necessary to delete pretty much all the graphics in the sketch, and just stay with text.

This one is a 2.2" (diagonal) display with 176x220 resolution and parallel interface. It has a standard ("Intel 8080") parallel interface, and works in both 8-bit and 16-bit modes. It uses the S6D0164 driver in Henning Karlsen"s UTFT library, and because of the memory requirements of same, works only with an Arduino Mega or Due. It has an SD card slot on its back

This one is a bit of an oddball. It"s a clone of the more common HY-TFT240, and it has two rows of pins, set at right angles to one another. To enable the display in 8-bit mode, only the row of pins along the narrow edge is used. The other row is for the SD card socket on the back, and for 16-bit mode. To interface with an Arduino ( Mega or Due), it uses Henning Karlsen"s UTFT library, and the driver is ILI9325C. Its resolution is 320x240 (hires!) and it incorporates both a touch screen and an SD card slot.

Having determined that a particular TFT display will work with the Arduino, it"s time to think about a more permanent solution -- constructing hard-wired and soldered plug-in boards. To make things easier, start with a blank protoshield as a base, and add sockets for the TFT displays to plug into. Each socket row will have a corresponding row next to it, with each individual hole "twinned" to the adjacent hole in the adjoining row by solder bridges, making them accessible to jumpers to connect to appropriate Arduino pins. An alternative is hard-wiring the socket pins to the Arduino pins, which is neater but limits the versatility of the board.

In step 5, you mention that the TFT01 display can"t be used with the UTFT library on an Arduino Uno because of its memory requirements. It can - all you have to do is edit memorysaver.h and disable any display models you"re not using.

I think you should add a disclaimer that the code might make the Arduino Uno unprogrammable afterward (due to use up the two 0 and 1 pin) and link to how to fix it: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5290428/how-to-reset-an-arduino-board/8453576?sfb=2#84535760

Tho I realize this is quickly becoming legacy hardware, these 8,16 bit parallel spi with 4 wire controller 3.2in Taft touch display 240x380. It has become very inexpensive with ally of back stock world wide so incorporating them into any project is easier then ever. Sorry to my question. I’m having difficulty finding wiring solution for this lcd. It is a sd1289 3.3 and 5v ,40 pin parallel 8,16 bit. I do not want to use a extra shield,hat or cape or adapter. But there’s a lot of conflicting info about required lvl shifters for this model any help or links to info would be great .. thank you. I hope I gave enough information to understand what I’m adoing

#1 you need a data sheet for the display and pinout and the i/o board attached to the cable.Than before you buy check for a driver for this chip Raydium/RM69071.if no driver lib are you able to write one and do you have the necessary tools to work on this scale to wire it up ..if you answer no than search for an arduino ready product.WCH0

hooking up and adding a lib is no piece of cake insure the screen you buy is arduino ready and sold by a reputable shop with step by step directions...WCH0

I"m sorry that I can"t help you with this. You"ll have to do your own research. See if you can identify the chipset and find out if there"s an Arduino driver for it.0

I found the TFT screen and Uno on Banggood.com about a month ago and over the weekend I was messing with the pair and found the tftbmp draw code in the demo.. I extended it with the ability to read any bmp file on the SD card.. so all you do is put your bitmaps on the SD and plug it in.. Having to add/edit/recompile/reload the Uno everytime is BS... Here is my code:

LCD displays, such as the ones used in LCDBPV2, have LCD chip to drive TFT grid pixels, in this case SSD1289 chip. This chip links each pixel with his MCU and provide Serial or parallel control to any external MCU or FPGA/CPLD.

In both modes, serial and parallel, has been programmed a new mode to improve performance:writedatasec (write sequence of data). This mode can be used because CPLD (in series comunication) and MCU (in parallel comunication) keeps data in his output buffer (to SSD1289), so is not needed to update it, saving time and MCU load. Some other news about serial mode are dual bit data and edge indications: Because CPLD design can parallelize process without losing time, so it uses two separated circuits to obtain data at the same time and later feeds register buffer. Edge indicates almost all actions of the integrated CPLD circuit to save time. In short, E.H.A. serial mode is the fastest mode possible with serial communication and allows low end MCU to drive LCD at good speed and high end LCD to save pins with speed of parallel. In fact, using writedatasec with any MCU (comparec with the same clock speed), parallel and serial mode spend the same ammount of time.

The 2.8" Arduino TFT LCD Touchscreen Module (Colour Screen) is for Arduino UNO board and Mega 2560 board or boards compatible with UNO. This module can display words, colour painting, ghaphics and pictures. This module come with a large touch screen display and build in Micro SD Card socket make it user friendly and easy to use. As a bonus, this display comes with a resistive or capacitive touchscreen attached to it , so you can detect finger presses anywhere on the screen.

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Arduino, the open source electronics platform, has software and hardware so easy to use that it inspires much in the way of creative 3D printed projects. Now it is time to show off some of these creations in Instructables-sponsored Arduino All The Things! Contest. This contest features submissions made with the Arduino (or another) microcontroller, and you still have time to participate.

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This new library is a standalone library that contains the TFT driver as well as the graphics functions and fonts that were in the GFX library. This library has significant performance improvements when used with an UNO (or ATmega328 based Arduino) and MEGA.

Examples are included with the library, including graphics test programs. The example sketch TFT_Rainbow_one shows different ways of using the font support functions. This library now supports the "print" library so the formatting features of the "print" library can be used, for example to print to the TFT in Hexadecimal, for example:

In the library Font 0 (GLCD font), 2, 4, 6 and 8 are enabled. Edit the Load_fonts.h file within the library folder to enable/disable fonts to save space.

TFT_ILI9341 library updated on 1st July 2015 to version 12, this latest version is attached here to step 8:Minor bug when rendering letter "T" in font 4 without background fixed

Regular PumppH Up/Down Solution5V Relay Modules for Arduino (5 - you could also get combined ones in a shield)12V Solenoid ValveGrow Lights (mine are LED)Sockets for Grow Lights3.2" TFT LCD Shield+ Touch Screen(usually has an SD card reader on the back of it)Water Level Sensor Float Switch (2)I2C RTC DS1307 AT24C32 Real Time Clock Module9V and 12V Power SuppliesHydroponics Pots (I"m using 10 - 3" pots for this)1" PVC Pipe and Fittings + Drain Pipe and Fittings

Attached is the most current Arduino code for the project. It will be updated based on feedback given by others; I don"t expect my way to always be the best way! I haven"t had weeks to test it "out in the real world" so there may still be a few kinks in it. Be sure to adjust the lux value for measuring the time for the supplemental lights...the optimal value may vary depending upon your sensor. Also, if you"re using a different pH sensor, the calculations may need to be changed to fit that particular one. Big thanks to BillieBricks for working out a lot of the code.

Gardening and electronics are a brilliant match and what better way to get started then with desktop gardens? They"re small, simple to build, and a perfect way to put your Arduino or Raspberry Pi to good use. You can keep it simple by just wiring up some LED grow lights, or you can extend it to include moisture sensors and automatic watering.

This desktop garden is housed in a fantastic wooden structure made from laser-cut plywood. If you want to use this design for your own urban garden, you can download the file from the creator via Instructables.

In any case, this is a good project to learn how to wire basic electronic components. The four main parts are a 2.8-inch TFT touchscreen, an RTC clock module, four moisture sensors, and an LED strip, plus a few MOSFET transistors.

If you want to re-create the garden structure described in the Instructables guide, you will need a 3D printer. Once printed, add in some wood veneer to give a faux wood look and you will then have a sleek and polished final product.

For this project, you will be wiring a moisture sensor and a mini pump to an Arduino Uno, then compiling a small bit of code. Beyond the initial setup, you might find you need to experiment with the placement of the moisture sensor, or tinker with the calibration to get it just right.

A few different construction methods go into this design, including 3D printing, laser cutting, and vacuum casting. This might not be available to everyone, but reading through the work log on the Arduino Project Hub will still give you plenty of resources and information to take away.

This creator set up a few handy commands for his desktop planter, one of them being "Alexa, ask herb box how my plants are", which tells you which plants are dry. While the project on the Arduino Project Hub serves more as a rough guide than detailed instructions, it will give you a good starting point to launch off from.

An Adafruit Trinket Pro board was used in this tutorial, but you can of course use an Arduino instead. Parts include plastic tubing, a small air pump, a soil hygrometer, and a plastic bottle to hold the water. The Trinket/Arduino is used to turn the pump on and off depending on the soil hygrometer readings, and the code for this function can be found on Instructables.