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This is SainSmart MEGA2560  + 7 inch TFT LCD module with the TFT LCD shield kit For arduino enthusiasts.It includes one pcs of SainSmart MEGA2560 , 7 inch TFT LCD display and a TFT LCD shield for Arduino MEGA2560.This kit helps you to avoid complicated wiring processes and save you much time to accomplish your goal. You can feel free to enjoy the touch function and SD card function by using our codes.We will provided you the whole document including the example project of the kit. We will supply you the technical support after your purchase.

The MEGA2560 R3 also adds SDA and SCL pins next to the AREF. In addition, there are two new pins placed near the RESET pin. One is the IOREF that allow the shields to adapt to the voltage provided from the board. The other is a not connected and is reserved for future purposes. The MEGA2560 R3 works with all existing shields but can adapt to new shields which use these additional pins.

It is 100% compatible with the normal MCU like ARM AVR PIC and 8051,especially on Arduino family such as Arduino Due and Arduino MEGA2560(R3). The module uses the LCD controller Chip SSD1963 with 7 inch LCD including the touchscreen.

LCD-specificed intialization code is provided, so that you can save time to optimize power control register and gamma curves for best display performance. We have test the provided code, it gives the best display performanace

This is Sainsmart TFT LCD Extend shield for arduino due .Using this shield can help you out of the bothers to use other cables. You just need to plug the module to arduino due through this shield.

The shield defines that all the the data transmit ports are PC1-PC8 and PC12-PC19,the controll pins are PD0-PD3.The perfect design could realize that the data transmits in high speed.The SPI interface is designed in the ISP header of arduino due so that the SPI transfer with DMA could be achieved in high speed with no drag.

This shiled is just for Arduno MEGA2560. If you need the LCD Extend shield for Arduino Due,you need a similar shield which is also provided from our store.

This shiled is just for 7 inch TFT LCD.If you need the LCD Extend shield for 3.2/3.5/...,you need a similar shield which is also provided from our store.

This is SainSmart 7 inch TFT LCD module with the TFT LCD shield kit For arduino enthusiasts. It includes one pcs of 7 inch TFT LCD display and a TFT LCD shield for Arduino MEGA2560(R3). We will provided you the whole document including the example project of Arduino MEGA2560(R3) with the kit. We will supply you the technical support after your purchase.

It is 100% compatible with the normal MCU like ARM AVR PIC and 8051, especially on Arduino family such as Arduino Due and Arduino MEGA2560(R3).The module uses the LCD controller Chip SSD1963 with 5 inch LCD including the touchscreen.

LCD-specificed intialization code is provided, so that you can save time to optimize power control register and gamma curves for best display performance. We have test the provided code, it gives the best display performanace

This is SainSmart TFT LCD Extend shield for Arduino MEGA2560(R3). Using this shield can help you out of the bothers to use other cables. You just need to plug the module to Arduino MEGA2560(R3) through this shield.

The shield defines that all the the data transmit ports are PC1-PC8 and PC12-PC19,the controll pins are PD0-PD3.The perfect design could realize that the data transmits in high speed. The SPI interface is designed in the ISP header of arduino due so that the SPI transfer with DMA could be achieved in high speed with no drag.

This shiled is just for Arduno MEGA2560(R3). If you need the LCD Extend shield for Arduino Due, you need a similar shield which is also provided from our webstore.

This shiled is just for 7 inch TFT LCD.If you need the LCD Extend shield for 3.2"" or 5"", you need a similar shield which is also provided from our store.

This is SainSmart 7 inch TFT LCD module with the TFT LCD shield kit For arduino enthusiasts. It includes one pcs of 7 inch TFT LCD display and a TFT LCD shield for Arduino Due.We will provided you the whole document including the example project of Arduino Due with the kit. We will supply you the technical support after your purchase.

It is 100% compatible with the normal MCU like ARM AVR PIC and 8051, especially on Arduino family such as Arduino Due and Arduino MEGA2560(R3).The module uses the LCD controller Chip SSD1963 with 5 inch LCD including the touchscreen.

LCD-specificed intialization code is provided, so that you can save time to optimize power control register and gamma curves for best display performance. We have test the provided code, it gives the best display performanace

This is SainSmart TFT LCD Extend shield for Arduino Due .Using this shield can help you out of the bothers to use other cables. You just need to plug the module to Arduino Due through this shield.

The shield defines that all the the data transmit ports are PC1-PC8 and PC12-PC19,the controll pins are PD0-PD3.The perfect design could realize that the data transmits in high speed. The SPI interface is designed in the ISP header of arduino due so that the SPI transfer with DMA could be achieved in high speed with no drag.

This shiled is just for Arduno Due. If you need the LCD Extend shield for Arduino MEGA2560(R3), you need a similar shield which is also provided from our webstore.

This shiled is just for 7 inch TFT LCD.If you need the LCD Extend shield for 3.2"" or 5"", you need a similar shield which is also provided from our store.

This is Sainsmart 5 inch TFT LCD module with the TFT LCD shield kit for arduino enthusiasts.It includes one piece of 5 inch TFT LCD display and a TFT LCD shield for Arduino MEGA2560 (R3).We will provided you the whole document including the example project of arduino due with the kit. We will supply you the technical support after your purchase.

LCD-specified initialization code is provided, so that you can save time to optimize power control register and gamma curves for best display performance. We have test the provided code, it gives the best display performanace

It is 100% compatible with the normal MCU like ARM AVR PIC and 8051,especially on arduino family such as arduino due and arduino mega2560(R3).The module uses the LCD controller Chip SSD1963 with 5 inch LCD including the touchscreen.

The shield defines that all the the data transmit ports are PC1-PC8 and PC12-PC19,the controll pins are PD0-PD3.The perfect design could realize that the data transmits in high speed.The SPI interface is designed in the ISP header of arduino due so that the SPI transfer with DMA could be achieved in high speed with no drag.

Hi everyone, I"m having some issues with this TFT from sainsmart. I unfortunately was not aware at the time of purchase that Sainsmart was using UTFT commercially unlicensed and I regret buying from them. However it is too late to return my product and I am stuck with a screen and shield which I have no support on.

Could someone direct me to a place where I can get libraries that work for my TFT and shield combo? I have been searching the forums and no one else seems to have my exact issue.

I just would like to get this to run any of the sample codes provided with the TFT libraries so I can begin tweaking that code to my own advantages. Any help would be much appreciated.

I was torn in deciding how many stars to give this. For starters, I must mention that I own 5 of these things -- 3 of the Mega2560R3 kits and 2 of the Due kits. This review is the collective findings of both varieties.I"m going to start with a key problem and warning that everyone who has bought or is thinking of buying these things should read:WARNING: The configuration jumpers on ALL five of the units I"ve received were jumpered incorrectly from the factory. The Mega2560R3 boards had both the 5v and 3.3v selection jumpers soldered, meaning if you plug it in as-is, you"ll short out the two power supplies. Their pictures of the board all show only the 3.3v jumpers selected, which is correct, but the three Mega boards I received, the LCD shield boards were jumpered wrong with both voltages selected. The two Due boards were also jumpered wrong. However, they didn"t have both jumper sets applied, they only had the 5v jumpers applied. Even if the LCD could stand 5v (and would be OK since all of its I/O pins are outputs from the processor), jumping it wrong would also mean powering the touchscreen chip from 5v causing the inputs to the Due processor to see 5v, and the input pins of the SAM micro are NOT 5v tolerant.This problem is likely why some of the other reviewers mentioned processors and things getting hot. So step one, regardless of which board set you get, check your jumpers! The LCD should be configured for 3.3v and only one voltage selection jumper should be applied per option so you don"t short out both supply voltages.Of the five units I received, one LCD screen glass was cracked. It still functions, but the crack renders the touchscreen portion somewhat unusable. Another LCD screen apparently has a panel that was wired backwards (between the driver chip and the LCD panel itself). I thought at first it was defective as the screen had the appearance of the old SSAVI style cable scrambling technique with a "torn" picture. But the pre-init white screen looked OK, so I was suspicious that it was functioning, but in a weird way. After some experimenting, I found that if I swapped the sync settings around and the horizontal/vertical addressing modes around it worked, but exactly backwards from what it should -- addressing was going the wrong way and scrolling was backwards, etc... It is usable, but only if I correct for their problem in software. I didn"t exchange either one of these because the cost and hassle of doing so wouldn"t have been worth it.I was also suspicious that the one screen that was behaving backwards simply had a different LCD driver chip. But, I read the Device ID out of all of them and they all reported 9325. So they should have all functioned the same. And, for what it"s worth, the LCD driver chip at least thinks it"s a 9325.As for software and support, I don"t understand the reviews that say there"s no software or support out there, as the item description posted on Amazon even has a link to a zip file from SainSmart with the CTE UTFT libraries already preconfigured for these screens (maybe those reviews were done before that was posted?). And in any case, this is a clone of the CTE (Cold Tears Electronics) boards and there"s plenty of documentation and software for it, including schematics and even board layouts, if you Google it.One reviewer mentioned it not being a true "CTE" board because no SPI Flash chip was installed. Well, even the original CTE boards don"t come with the flash chip by default -- that"s an optional add-on (as per their "official" website). This clone certainly has the pads, just get a chip and solder it on... Though you"ll probably still want to read the font data out and store it in memory, as the latency of reading it from flash every time text is rendered would serious slow down performance. So why not just put the font you want in the main flash of the micro? Though I guess you could use the chip to store anything you want and aren"t limited to just fonts.Another thing to look out for on the board is solder splash and cold solder joints, specifically on all of the through-hole parts. Two of my boards had a solder splash on the power input connector, shorting it out had I not seen and removed it. Various through-hole connectors were marginally soldered and needed some touch-up work. So expect to do some soldering right out of the gate. And be sure to look your board over thoroughly and fix these things before using it.The processor boards (apart from a couple of soldering issues) were fairly functional and I guess a decent value for the price. But, the Mega, for example, has a old bootloader version installed. One of the first things you"ll want to do is reflash it (via the ISP port) with the current stk500v2 bootloader. Also, it didn"t have the lock bits sets, meaning you could easily accidentally overwrite the bootloader during programming and end up with a brain-dead board until you reflashed the bootloader via the ISP port... So I suggest flashing the current bootloader and setting the lock fuses first thing.I"m suspicious, though, that the ATmega2560 processor is a counterfeit chip as the efuse bits don"t seem to want to stay set. You can program them, and they seem to program OK, even verify correctly, but later on will occasionally randomly read back as 0xFF. I have only seen that happen with the efuse bits, which is primarily just brownout voltage threshold setting, so it isn"t too critical (compared to the other fuse bits), but makes me wonder about the integrity of the processor as a whole and wonder if it"s possibly a "counterfeit chip".I haven"t done as much checking of bootloader code on the Due board, or its ARM micro. It came up and talked to the bossa loader without any issues, so I haven"t had a need to analyze it to the extent I have the Mega boards. Plus, being a newer Arduino board, it"s more likely to have a new bootloader and also the different nature of the programming process on the ARM of the Due isn"t as likely to have flash overwrite issues as the Mega does.The LCD screens themselves are decent, assuming yours isn"t cracked or wired backwards, but be aware that this 9325 chip, at least the way it"s configured on this LCD panel, does NOT support hardware scrolling in the vertical direction when in landscape mode. It does do hardware scrolling, but only vertical for portrait mode (or horizontal for landscape). If your project needs hardware scrolling in the vertical direction of landscape mode (as my project needs), this LCD screen won"t do it!The touchscreen, however, I found to work quite well -- but ONLY after you"ve calibrated it. It didn"t work at all until I did the calibration. Perhaps the reviewers saying they couldn"t get touchscreen to work didn"t calibrate it? You first need to get your LCD working with their demo. Then, load their UTouch calibration program and follow the prompts on the screen for creating the calibration parameters. Then plug those parameters into the UTouch source code, et voila. I was pleasantly surprised at how well the touchscreen seemed to function for the money -- it had good response, was accuracy and seemed repeatable, and didn"t require a lot of excess pressure, etc. From some of the other reviews I"ve seen on this screen, I wasn"t sure what to expect, but was pleasantly surprised to find the touchscreen performing well (at least on the screens I received -- maybe they too have quality control issues?).The UTFT code isn"t the best of code, but is functional and works well on both the Mega and Due. I did tweak it to work a little more efficiently and fix potential memory access faults, and to add hardware scrolling support (the library itself didn"t originally support hardware scrolling at all).A better software library to use with the screen is Andy Brown"s xmemtft, available on GitHub. To use it, you"ll have to use the Gpio16 include files for the ili9325 chip and properly set the port mapping for your processor. Speaking of port mapping, the correct settings on the UTFT library (that"s linked in the item description of these boards) for this 2.8" 320x240 TFT LCD in their example code is as follows:Mega:UTFT myGLCD(CTE28,38,39,40);UTouch myTouch(6,5,4,3,2);Due:UTFT myGLCD(CTE28,25,26,27,28);UTouch myTouch(6, 5, 32, 3, 2); (note: it will support "4" in place of the "32", but only if you add a jumper on the adapter shield)So all-in-all, it"s usable, but only if you do a little work on them, don"t get a bad LCD, and don"t need vertical scroll in landscape. It definitely isn"t a kit for a novice. Don"t expect to plug it together and start using it without doing some soldering and fixing things. And if you are new to programming, you may want to get some experience on a more ready-to-use package, like an Adafruit kit or something, first.But, if you don"t mind learning a little and working through the BS and you happen to get lucky and the one you receive isn"t defective, this is a decent deal for the money, as most vendors sell just the processor board for the cost of this entire kit.So, as a cheap, knock-off clone, it"s usable, but...

Overall, I like this LCD. The SSD1289 chip on this LCD is faster to communicate with than the ILI9325D on some of the SainSmart displays and it generally works well. One thing to note is that it"s configured in portrait mode and like many of the driver chips, there doesn"t seem to be anyway to do hardware vertical scrolling in the landscape orientation. Sure, it"s fully functional otherwise in landscape, but in landscape, the vertical scroll becomes a horizontal scroll with no way to reconfigure it -- not good if you want to use it as a little terminal console in landscape orientation. Their 4.3" and 5" screens with the SSD1963, though, are configured in landscape if you need that functionality.

The driver chip did report back 0x8989, which according to Solomon Systech is the correct ID for the SSD1289. So it does report to be the chip that SainSmart claims that it is.

WARNING: The LCD is 3.3V, yet the Due Shield that it came with, like so many of the SainSmart kits, was incorrectly jumpered for 5V operation. So be sure to fix the solder jumpers to be set correctly before you use it.

I noticed one commenter mentioned the SD card slot being incorrectly wired, I haven"t yet tried the SD slot on this kit, but I think that"s a function of the CTE shield board that this is a clone of and has to do with the pinout of the Due itself. So I don"t fault SainSmart on that one -- they just cloned the CTE shield and stuck this LCD on it... But do watch the jumpers.

If you want to be able to read the Device ID and other data from the LCD, you will need to add a jumper wire to the CTE Shield to connect the RD pin to a Due Port Pin. I used pin 29 for that (and don"t forget to turn on the GPIO clock on the SAM3X8E to enable reading).

And if you get the other shield board for the Mega, this LCD works well with the Mega2560 too. Though it can"t read from the LCD due to how the CTE Mega shield voltage translators can"t reverse direction. So between the two, you can only read the ID from the Due.