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ER-TFTM1.44-2 is 128x128 pixel 1.44 inch color tft lcd display panel with ST7735S controller and breakout board,superior display quality,wide viewing angle,super and easily controlled by MCU such as 8051, PIC, AVR, ARDUINO,ARM and Raspberry PI.It can be used in any embedded systems,industrial device,security and hand-held equipment which requires display in high quality and colorful image.It"s 4-wire serial spi interface with pin header connection.It"s easily controlled by MCU such as 8051,PIC,AVR,ARDUINO,ARM and Raspberry Pi.It can be used in any embedded systems,industrial device,security,medical and hand-held device.

While googling for any info about lcd controller I came across this page: http://heikki.virekunnas.fi/2015/raspberry-pi-tft/, author managed to get from manufacturer patch file for kernel sources and tested it with 4.1.y - on which lcd worked. But still LCD replace HDMI, but I want to use this screen as additional for user interaction, while the bigger on HDMI as presentation monitor.

Since, fbtft has been merged with rpi kernel, so the fb drivers (including ili9341.c) was moved to fbtft_device driver (so the author of page can"t compile latest kernel with driver+patch).

So something about hardware, which I reverse engineered by the "hard way" - "grab multimeter and run through all LCD FPC pins and shift register pins"

Now I noticed there is "9486L" which can suggest that LCD screen is controlled by ILI9486L, I found this LCD on taobao too but I can"t contact seller.

I"m pretty sure about D/C (Pin 37 on LCD) and Reset (Pin 19 on LCD) pins by looking into driver code, but I can"t identify other signals (WR/RD/CS/etc...)

[ 0.000000] Kernel command line: dma.dmachans=0x7f35 bcm2708_fb.fbwidth=656 bcm2708_fb.fbheight=416 bcm2709.boardrev=0xa01041 bcm2709.serial=0x2938b030 smsc95xx.macaddr=B8:27:EB:38:B0:30 bcm2708_fb.fbswap=1 bcm2709.disk_led_gpio=47 bcm2709.disk_led_active_low=0 sdhci-bcm2708.emmc_clock_freq=250000000 vc_mem.mem_base=0x3dc00000 vc_mem.mem_size=0x3f000000 dwc_otg.lpm_enable=0 console=ttyAMA0,115200 console=tty1 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootfstype=ext4 elevator=deadline rootwait

- Controller is not ILI9341/ILI9325 - those are for smaller displays (320x240, etc...), I guess this might be ILI9486/9488 because they are for 480x320 displays. But when I compared init with DS it does not fit right so LCD can have a clone of ILI9486/9488 ...

- Module use only SPI interface and two CE signals (CE0 for touch controller, CE1 for LCD shift registers - compared to others lcd modules, in KeDei module this is swapped),

I"ve been using the PI 3.3V to connect to both VCC and LED pins on the display. The backlight is quoted to draw max 50 mA. I wonder if this is the proper way to do this, because I read that the older pi"s had a theoretical limit of 50 mA on the 3.3V pin. I understand this limit is really no longer there for the zero 2 model, it"s more around 800 mA from what I understand.

So my question is, what is the ideal way of powering a display like this? Can I connect to the 5V? Or would this potentially fry the GPIO inputs? Or is it currently best to use the 3.3V to power the display?

The touch screen LCD is ready with 320×480 resolution, 50 FPS (Frame per second). Resistive touch control is being supported by the Raspberry Pi OS or Raspbian (directly-pluggable). However, we will still need to install the driver for graphic display :)

However, there is a dedicated case/enclosure and a low-profile heatsink with a fan for this LCD to fit perfectly on the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B. The case has an opening for the LCD, and the low-profile heatsink with a fan keeps the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B protected and cool! You get a perfect console :) Don"t forget to remove the top lid/cover of the enclosure for the 3.5-inch LCD.

Note: The Raspberry Pi 4 Model B, 3.5-inch Enclosure, and the Low-Profile Heatsink with a fan are NOT INCLUDED in this product, please get them separately.

As we understand, Raspberry Pi 4 Model B delivers great performance and of course, more power will generate more heat as of all CPU :) So we need a way to install an additional heatsink to dissipate the extra heat. It will be better if we can have the option to add a cooling fan for active cooling. Well, this 3.5-inch touch screen LCD comes ready with the heatsink and cooling fan for you to use with the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B. it solves all the concerns.

The 3.5-inch touch screen uses the GPIO on the Raspberry Pi board, so it stretches out 2 pins as the power to supply the cooling fan on the low profile heatsink, and keep the Raspberry Pi board cool!

Note: The Raspberry Pi 4 Model B, 3.5-inch Enclosure, and the Low-Profile Heatsink with a fan are NOT INCLUDED in this product, please get them separately.

The Graphic driver is provided and can be downloaded for Raspberry Pi OS/Raspbian. It also supports Ubuntu and Kali Linux. Do follow the steps here: http://www.lcdwiki.com/MHS-3.5inch_RPi_Display

Note: Please use the recommended system for the touch screen. If another system is used, it may not have the touch function or may not work. You need to configure it yourself. Because there are many systems that the Raspberry Pi can use, we can’t make every system compatible with the touch screen.

The TFT isn’t ‘plug & play’ with the Raspberry, a patch has to be applied to the kernel to be able to interface via SPI with the ST7735R controller chip on the TFT. Once working, the display will act as a framebuffer device.

As it takes over three hours to compile the kernel on the PI, I will show how to cross compile from another Linux PC. In my case, it is Ubuntu 12.10 running within VMWare on a Windows 7 Quad core PC. Kernel compile time is 15 mins.

-Copy config from the Raspberry Pi to the Ubuntu box using SCP. Replace ‘raspberrypi’ below with the IP address of your Raspberry Pi if hostname lookup fails.

If you are planning on displaying the console on the TFT, then enabling these options in .config will allow you to change the font size and rotate the display later on.

To enable parallel processing for a faster compile. If you have a dual core processor add -j 3 to the end of the command below. If you have quad core, add -j 6

The last step below is to SCP the files from from Ubuntu to the Raspberry Pi. If you have trouble SCPing into your Ubuntu box you may need to install open SSH on Ubuntu with sudo apt-get install openssh-server. This step also copies the files from my home folder ‘mark’… yours would be different.

If you build the st7735 driver pair as built-in, add these options to the end of the line in /boot/cmdline.txt. This will display the console on the TFT.

In the previous article, I described the steps needed to install an LCD touchscreen on the Raspberry Pi. In this article, I will show you how to adjust the screen rotation of the LCD to landscape mode, and will show you how to calibrate the touchscreen pointer for optimal accuracy. Just follow the steps below to compete the process of setting up your Raspberry Pi LCD touchscreen:

1. First we need to change the setting for screen rotation in the /boot/cmdline.txt file. This setting is called fbtft_device.rotate=X. By default, this is set to X=0, which results in a portrait mode screen orientation. In order to switch the orientation to landscape mode, change fbtft_device.rotate=0 to fbtft_device.rotate=90. Enter sudo nano /boot/cmdline.txt at the command prompt. There should only be one line in this file. Go to the end of it and you will find the fbtft_device.rotate=X setting. Change the value from 0 to 90:

However, if you try to touch the screen now, you will find that the pointer movement does not correspond to your finger movement. This is because the LCD screen driver and the touchscreen controller driver have separate settings for screen rotation. We need to change the rotation of the touchscreen controller driver to match the rotation of the LCD screen driver.

After the Pi finishes rebooting, you should notice that when you move your finger across the touch screen, the pointer should follow correctly in both axes. If you are using the Raspberry Pi 2 Model B, you will need to complete the calibration steps below before the pointer follows your finger correctly (and make sure that you have enabled startx to load automatically – see step 6 in this article).

You can rotate the screen 90 degrees (as we did in this tutorial) and the power connector will be at the bottom of the screen, but you can also rotate it 270 degrees so that the power connector is at the top of the screen. To do this, simply enter fbtft_device.rotate=270 in the /boot/cmdline.txt file. Then change the DISPLAY=:0 xinput --set-prop "ADS7846 Touchscreen" "Evdev Axis Inversion" 0 1 line in the /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc file to DISPLAY=:0 xinput --set-prop "ADS7846 Touchscreen" "Evdev Axis Inversion" 1 0. All you need to do is switch the values of the 0 and 1 at the end of this line.

Now that we have our LCD touchscreen up and running, the final step in the installation is the calibration of touch control. This will make the pointer much more accurate and easier to use.

This is kind of a long process, but it is well worth it if you want to get the LCD touchscreen set up properly. So if you have any trouble setting this up or have anything to say, please leave a comment below. Also, if you found this article useful, please share it with your friends!

Only SPI1 with the spi1-1cs overlay worked and only the waveshare35a overlay working, I tried to make my own overlay and didn"t worked, I don"t even get the spydev1.0 to show up together with my LCD screen.

Its touchscreen and resistive overlay, as well as its TFT display module, come already assembled, ready to be connected and programmed via your Pi – there is no welding at all, it’s a bona fide plug and play device!

The module uses your Raspberry Pi"s SPI interface, your screen and the SPI (SCK, MOSI, MISO, CE0, CE1) and GPIO 24 and 25 pins. The GPIO 18, 21, 22 and 23 pins are left free, so if you wish you can use them to install four slim tactile switches to increase the number of ways of interacting with your module!

This small, colour touchscreen for Raspberry Pi can be used in many different ways, for example as a console or video screen, a DIY GPS or smartphone screen, or even in a small point-and-shoot camera. It can also be used to create a mini arcade game or a mini computer.

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Displays much larger than 3.5 inches or with higher resolutions aren"t usually driven via SPI because it"s not fast enough to provide good frame rates for larger displays. But for small TFT displays, SPI is a perfectly suited interface.