160x128 tft display st7735 brands

Hi guys, welcome to today’s tutorial. Today, we will look on how to use the 1.8″ ST7735  colored TFT display with Arduino. The past few tutorials have been focused on how to use the Nokia 5110 LCD display extensively but there will be a time when we will need to use a colored display or something bigger with additional features, that’s where the 1.8″ ST7735 TFT display comes in.

The ST7735 TFT display is a 1.8″ display with a resolution of 128×160 pixels and can display a wide range of colors ( full 18-bit color, 262,144 shades!). The display uses the SPI protocol for communication and has its own pixel-addressable frame buffer which means it can be used with all kinds of microcontroller and you only need 4 i/o pins. To complement the display, it also comes with an SD card slot on which colored bitmaps can be loaded and easily displayed on the screen.

The schematics for this project is fairly easy as the only thing we will be connecting to the Arduino is the display. Connect the display to the Arduino as shown in the schematics below.

Due to variation in display pin out from different manufacturers and for clarity, the pin connection between the Arduino and the TFT display is mapped out below:

We will use two libraries from Adafruit to help us easily communicate with the LCD. The libraries include the Adafruit GFX library which can be downloaded here and the Adafruit ST7735 Library which can be downloaded here.

We will use two example sketches to demonstrate the use of the ST7735 TFT display. The first example is the lightweight TFT Display text example sketch from the Adafruit TFT examples. It can be accessed by going to examples -> TFT -> Arduino -> TFTDisplaytext. This example displays the analog value of pin A0 on the display. It is one of the easiest examples that can be used to demonstrate the ability of this display.

The second example is the graphics test example from the more capable and heavier Adafruit ST7735 Arduino library. I will explain this particular example as it features the use of the display for diverse purposes including the display of text and “animated” graphics. With the Adafruit ST7735 library installed, this example can be accessed by going to examples -> Adafruit ST7735 library -> graphics test.

Next, we move to the void setup function where we initialize the screen and call different test functions to display certain texts or images.  These functions can be edited to display what you want based on your project needs.

testdrawtext("Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Curabitur adipiscing ante sed nibh tincidunt feugiat. Maecenas enim massa, fringilla sed malesuada et, malesuada sit amet turpis. Sed porttitor neque ut ante pretium vitae malesuada nunc bibendum. Nullam aliquet ultrices massa eu hendrerit. Ut sed nisi lorem. In vestibulum purus a tortor imperdiet posuere. ", ST7735_WHITE);

Uploading the code to the Arduino board brings a flash of different shapes and text with different colors on the display. I captured one 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 as regards this project.

Here"s a very cool TFT LCD display with 128 x 160 resolution and 18-bit color depth. The most unique feature of the screen is the ability to read back the display memory across the bi-directional data lines. This solves a big problem with most displays - the need for a lot of memory to create effects like transparency or overlapping windows. This is an ideal component to include in your next custom project to advance your embedded hardware/software skills.

The reason that we"re reselling this part rather than using it on a new product is because of a misunderstanding about the interface details. It uses a 3-wire SPI interface with 9-bit transfers. The first bit is used to indicate if the following byte is data or a command. While 9-bit transfers are supported by many modern microcontrollers (like the K66 or STM32 families), making that work with vanilla Arduino is unlikely to happen any time soon. Since SparkFun products need out-of-the-box support for Arduino the interface had to be restricted to bit-banging - just too slow for a display with this resolution!

So we"re handing off this cool part to people willing to stretch their comfort level and move beyond basic Arduino functionality. Using a modern microcontroller of your choice and taking advantage of 9-bit SPI transfers - or a full parallel bus - you can unlock the full power of this display. Not only are we giving this to you at the cost you"d expect from a manufacturer but we"re passing along some of the work we"ve done so far: You can find the mating FPC connector here and some SW/HW work in the documents tab.

You don"t dismantle anything. Just look at the pcb side of your display. There will be some visible chips and some printed information e.g. model number.

There are several displays that go by the name of ST7735 - I used one without a card reader and one with - the one with a card reader had a red (rot) PCB - just to give you a hint - check the distance of the mounting holes in the diplay"s PCB to be...

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I made this to contain a 1.8"TFT screen ST7735 and attach it to a project box which contained an Arduino. The template allowed me to precisely cut out the holes for the cables and the screws to hold it in place and then seal the main box from the...

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supprot for color display ST7735, can be used to create a clock / weather station etc... next time I will upload the Arduino code and schematics for a Clock.

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8/21/17- sandwiching the breakout boards together around the perfboard has obscured the mounting holes, working on an alternative mounting arrangement Some handy reference for the ST7735 display driver and the FLIR Lepton:...

... is integrated in the middle,And a display (e.g. ...ST7735) in the bottom.The display is surrounded by six holes for ButtonsIn the front, there is another hole for an antenna.Inside, there are supports for an arduino due and two 9V block Batteries

... it sits completely flush to the wall just like a light switch or a power outlet. I used the ST7735 display which has an SD card slot on the back of it, I didn"t need the SD card for the project but this mount allows for its installation. ...

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I"ve bought on AliExpress a cheap 1.77 color display module. Getting it to work on an Arduino was straight forward. But the Arduino is slow. I also got it working on an Esp8266, which was also straight forward. However getting it to work on an ESP32 was a little harder. I"ve tried several libraries, e.g. AdaFruit and UcgLib. These didn"t work. After some investigations the SPI speed was too high for the display. I tried to change the libs to reduce the speed. I didn"t work either.

So I left the project a few weeks and I started again. I searched for all possible libraries for ST7735 and ESP32. I found some and there was one I manged to get to work.

After tweaking the user_setup.h file I managed to get it to work.The settings that ware important to change was to change the ST7735 defines. Default I choose the first. This one didn"t work. I reduce SPI speed, which had no effect either. Than after some changes and tweaking connections and setting I finally worked. The ST7735 defines all work except the first one with my TFT-screen. I reset all to default and the SPI-speed and it kept working. It works at a 27 MHz speed, which leave me with 450 ms for the 11 test pages. If I increase the speed to the next value of 40 MHz I see errors in the display. So 27 MHz is max for me.

I also checked all other ST7735 defines, and for my TFT the ST7735_GREENTAB3 showed the correct colors. The other values show the wrong colors, but gave an image.

At 160x128 pixels with 16-bit colour depth that gives you 327680 bits that you need to transfer just for the colour data. On top of that you have 88 bits to set up a drawing window (11 bytes of "set X coordinate and width" [5 bytes], "set Y coordinate and height" [5 bytes] and "start drawing" [1 byte]).

Now the transferring of that data is at the mercy of the SPI clock speed. How fast that can go depends on what the ST7735 can work at and the quality of your wiring (if it"s a shield you can almost discount the wiring). Assuming you can operate at the maximum 8MHz that the Arduino can run SPI at (which is probable) then you get:

TBH, though, a small Arduino is seldom a good choice to control a TFT screen. At the bare minimum you really need a chip with far more memory so you can draw graphics "off-screen" in a framebuffer, and then use DMA to transfer that off-screen buffer to the TFT screen over a 16-bit parallel connection at high speed while leaving the CPU free to do other jobs. Or even better a microcontroller with a built-in TFT controller to directly generate the correct drive signals for a TFT panel and store the whole screen image in internal RAM.