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This is a 2.8” TFT Resistive Touchscreen Display. The module, with a resolution of 320x240, adopts ILI9341 as driver IC and SPI (4-line) communication mode. The board integrates touch chip XPT2046, which converts the touch data collected by the AD to SPI data. The module also integrates an SD card slot allowing you to easily read the full-color bitmap. There are two modes of wiring supplied, normal pin header wiring and GDI. The latter one requires to work with a main controller board with a GDI interface (e.g. FireBeetle-M0). You can use it with only one FPC line plugging in, which reduces the complexity of the wiring. Furthermore, it features high resolution, wide viewing angle, and simple wiring, which can be used in all sorts of display applications, such as, IoT controlling device, game console, desktop event notifier, touch interface, etc.

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.

The provided display driver example code is designed to work with Microchip, however it is generic enough to work with other micro-controllers. The code includes display reset sequence, initialization and example PutPixel() function.

Please see the DT028CTFT for reference designs. The schematics between the A and the C are the same with the exception that the A does not have the IPS interface.

page1_btn.initButton(&tft, tft.width() / 2. , tft.height() / 2. - (1.*btnHeight + margin), 2 * btnWidth, btnHeight, WHITE, GREEN, BLACK, "SENSOR", 2);

page3_btn.initButton(&tft, tft.width() / 2., tft.height() / 2. + (1.*btnHeight + margin), 2 * btnWidth, btnHeight, WHITE, GREEN, BLACK, "PARAMETER", 2);

tft.drawRoundRect(tft.width() / 2. - 1.5 * btnWidth, tft.height() / 2. - (1.5 * btnHeight + 2 * margin), 2 * btnWidth + btnWidth, 3 * btnHeight + 4 * margin, 10, GREEN);

plus_btn.initButton(&tft, tft.width() / 2. - btnWidth / 2. , 60 + 3 * 4 + 6 * 8 + (btnWidth - 30), btnWidth - 20, btnWidth - 30, WHITE, GREEN, BLACK, "+", 5);

minus_btn.initButton(&tft, tft.width() / 2. + btnWidth / 2. + margin, 60 + 3 * 4 + 6 * 8 + (btnWidth - 30), btnWidth - 20, btnWidth - 30, WHITE, GREEN, BLACK, "-", 5);

if (bColor != 255) tft.fillRect(x - nbChar * 3 * tsize - marg, y - nbChar * 1 * tsize - marg, nbChar * 6 * tsize + 2 * marg, nbChar * 2 * tsize + 2 * marg, bColor);

In this article, you will learn how to use TFT LCDs by Arduino boards. From basic commands to professional designs and technics are all explained here.

There are several components to achieve this. LEDs,  7-segments, Character and Graphic displays, and full-color TFT LCDs. The right component for your projects depends on the amount of data to be displayed, type of user interaction, and processor capacity.

TFT LCD is a variant of a liquid-crystal display (LCD) that uses thin-film-transistor (TFT) technology to improve image qualities such as addressability and contrast. A TFT LCD is an active matrix LCD, in contrast to passive matrix LCDs or simple, direct-driven LCDs with a few segments.

In Arduino-based projects, the processor frequency is low. So it is not possible to display complex, high definition images and high-speed motions. Therefore, full-color TFT LCDs can only be used to display simple data and commands.

There are several components to achieve this. LEDs,  7-segments, Character and Graphic displays, and full-color TFT LCDs. The right component for your projects depends on the amount of data to be displayed, type of user interaction, and processor capacity.

TFT LCD is a variant of a liquid-crystal display (LCD) that uses thin-film-transistor (TFT) technology to improve image qualities such as addressability and contrast. A TFT LCD is an active matrix LCD, in contrast to passive matrix LCDs or simple, direct-driven LCDs with a few segments.

In Arduino-based projects, the processor frequency is low. So it is not possible to display complex, high definition images and high-speed motions. Therefore, full-color TFT LCDs can only be used to display simple data and commands.

After choosing the right display, It’s time to choose the right controller. If you want to display characters, tests, numbers and static images and the speed of display is not important, the Atmega328 Arduino boards (such as Arduino UNO) are a proper choice. If the size of your code is big, The UNO board may not be enough. You can use Arduino Mega2560 instead. And if you want to show high resolution images and motions with high speed, you should use the ARM core Arduino boards such as Arduino DUE.

In electronics/computer hardware a display driver is usually a semiconductor integrated circuit (but may alternatively comprise a state machine made of discrete logic and other components) which provides an interface function between a microprocessor, microcontroller, ASIC or general-purpose peripheral interface and a particular type of display device, e.g. LCD, LED, OLED, ePaper, CRT, Vacuum fluorescent or Nixie.

The LCDs manufacturers use different drivers in their products. Some of them are more popular and some of them are very unknown. To run your display easily, you should use Arduino LCDs libraries and add them to your code. Otherwise running the display may be very difficult. There are many free libraries you can find on the internet but the important point about the libraries is their compatibility with the LCD’s driver. The driver of your LCD must be known by your library. In this article, we use the Adafruit GFX library and MCUFRIEND KBV library and example codes. You can download them from the following links.

You must add the library and then upload the code. If it is the first time you run an Arduino board, don’t worry. Just follow these steps:Go to www.arduino.cc/en/Main/Software and download the software of your OS. Install the IDE software as instructed.

By these two functions, You can find out the resolution of the display. Just add them to the code and put the outputs in a uint16_t variable. Then read it from the Serial port by Serial.println(); . First add Serial.begin(9600); in setup().

First you should convert your image to hex code. Download the software from the following link. if you don’t want to change the settings of the software, you must invert the color of the image and make the image horizontally mirrored and rotate it 90 degrees counterclockwise. Now add it to the software and convert it. Open the exported file and copy the hex code to Arduino IDE. x and y are locations of the image. sx and sy are sizes of image. you can change the color of the image in the last input.

Upload your image and download the converted file that the UTFT libraries can process. Now copy the hex code to Arduino IDE. x and y are locations of the image. sx and sy are size of the image.

In this template, We just used a string and 8 filled circles that change their colors in order. To draw circles around a static point ,You can use sin();  and cos(); functions. you should define the PI number . To change colors, you can use color565(); function and replace your RGB code.

In this template, We converted a .jpg image to .c file and added to the code, wrote a string and used the fade code to display. Then we used scroll code to move the screen left. Download the .h file and add it to the folder of the Arduino sketch.

In this template, We used sin(); and cos(); functions to draw Arcs with our desired thickness and displayed number by text printing function. Then we converted an image to hex code and added them to the code and displayed the image by bitmap function. Then we used draw lines function to change the style of the image. Download the .h file and add it to the folder of the Arduino sketch.

In this template, We added a converted image to code and then used two black and white arcs to create the pointer of volumes.  Download the .h file and add it to the folder of the Arduino sketch.

while (a < b) { Serial.println(a); j = 80 * (sin(PI * a / 2000)); i = 80 * (cos(PI * a / 2000)); j2 = 50 * (sin(PI * a / 2000)); i2 = 50 * (cos(PI * a / 2000)); tft.drawLine(i2 + 235, j2 + 169, i + 235, j + 169, tft.color565(0, 255, 255)); tft.fillRect(200, 153, 75, 33, 0x0000); tft.setTextSize(3); tft.setTextColor(0xffff); if ((a/20)>99)

while (b < a) { j = 80 * (sin(PI * a / 2000)); i = 80 * (cos(PI * a / 2000)); j2 = 50 * (sin(PI * a / 2000)); i2 = 50 * (cos(PI * a / 2000)); tft.drawLine(i2 + 235, j2 + 169, i + 235, j + 169, tft.color565(0, 0, 0)); tft.fillRect(200, 153, 75, 33, 0x0000); tft.setTextSize(3); tft.setTextColor(0xffff); if ((a/20)>99)

In this template, We just display some images by RGBbitmap and bitmap functions. Just make a code for touchscreen and use this template.  Download the .h file and add it to folder of the Arduino sketch.

The speed of playing all the GIF files are edited and we made them faster or slower for better understanding. The speed of motions depends on the speed of your processor or type of code or size and thickness of elements in the code.

The four sample codes: DisplayString, DrawGraphic, ShowBMP, and TouchPanel are used to display strings, graphics, pictures in BMP format, and touch pen functions.

The four sample codes: DisplayString, DrawGraphic, ShowBMP, and TouchPanel are used to display strings, graphics, pictures in BMP format, and touch pen functions.

In this Arduino touch screen tutorial we will learn how to use TFT LCD Touch Screen with Arduino. You can watch the following video or read the written tutorial below.

As an example I am using a 3.2” TFT Touch Screen in a combination with a TFT LCD Arduino Mega Shield. We need a shield because the TFT Touch screen works at 3.3V and the Arduino Mega outputs are 5 V. For the first example I have the HC-SR04 ultrasonic sensor, then for the second example an RGB LED with three resistors and a push button for the game example. Also I had to make a custom made pin header like this, by soldering pin headers and bend on of them so I could insert them in between the Arduino Board and the TFT Shield.

Here’s the circuit schematic. We will use the GND pin, the digital pins from 8 to 13, as well as the pin number 14. As the 5V pins are already used by the TFT Screen I will use the pin number 13 as VCC, by setting it right away high in the setup section of code.

As the code is a bit longer and for better understanding I will post the source code of the program in sections with description for each section. And at the end of this article I will post the complete source code.

I will use the UTFT and URTouch libraries made by Henning Karlsen. Here I would like to say thanks to him for the incredible work he has done. The libraries enable really easy use of the TFT Screens, and they work with many different TFT screens sizes, shields and controllers. You can download these libraries from his website, RinkyDinkElectronics.com and also find a lot of demo examples and detailed documentation of how to use them.

After we include the libraries we need to create UTFT and URTouch objects. The parameters of these objects depends on the model of the TFT Screen and Shield and these details can be also found in the documentation of the libraries.

So now I will explain how we can make the home screen of the program. With the setBackColor() function we need to set the background color of the text, black one in our case. Then we need to set the color to white, set the big font and using the print() function, we will print the string “Arduino TFT Tutorial” at the center of the screen and 10 pixels  down the Y – Axis of the screen. Next we will set the color to red and draw the red line below the text. After that we need to set the color back to white, and print the two other strings, “by HowToMechatronics.com” using the small font and “Select Example” using the big font.

Ok next is the RGB LED Control example. If we press the second button, the drawLedControl() custom function will be called only once for drawing the graphic of that example and the setLedColor() custom function will be repeatedly called. In this function we use the touch screen to set the values of the 3 sliders from 0 to 255. With the if statements we confine the area of each slider and get the X value of the slider. So the values of the X coordinate of each slider are from 38 to 310 pixels and we need to map these values into values from 0 to 255 which will be used as a PWM signal for lighting up the LED. If you need more details how the RGB LED works you can check my particular tutorialfor that. The rest of the code in this custom function is for drawing the sliders. Back in the loop section we only have the back button which also turns off the LED when pressed.

In order the code to work and compile you will have to include an addition “.c” file in the same directory with the Arduino sketch. This file is for the third game example and it’s a bitmap of the bird. For more details how this part of the code work  you can check my particular tutorial. Here you can download that file:

In chapter 7, we made use of the segmented LCD display on the Wonder Gecko Starter Kit through the use of a pre-built LCD library and driver when designing the user interface for the sprinkler timer. That made things easy for us, and we didn’t really need to dwell on how the driver worked. In this chapter, we will dig into some of those details so that we can connect the EFM32 to any kind of display we choose.

The display we will be using for this chapter is the Adafruit 2.8” 240x320 TFT LCD Capacitive Touch screen, shown below. We will interface with it over SPI for transferring image data and I2C for reading the touch interface. We will learn how to interface with it with our own drivers and build our own simple graphics libraries, as well.

Segmented Display: We have already worked with the segmented LCD display in chapter 7, also known as a character display. In such a display, there are a fixed matrix of LCD segments that are preconfigured in hardware to convey specific information. They are not flexible enough to display an image, but they don’t require many pins on the MCU and are easier to program. For example, the number “9” can be formed on such a display with as few as 6 signals.

Note that a new “Memory LCD” described in Silicon Labs application note AN0048 couples a memory device within each pixel so that constant refreshing is not necessary, reducing power consumption as well.

Graphical display screens have many different technologies, from passive-matrix Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) or active-matrix Thin Film Transistor (TFT) LCD, Light Emitting Diode (LED), or Organic LED (OLED). Display technology is not the focus of this chapter. No matter which technology you choose, you will still need to understand the topics of this chapter in order to display your images.

The LCD pixel matrix is the heart of the display. This part is responsible for displaying the image and, in the case of LCD displays, it will either allow or prevent light from a backlight to pass through. In the case of LED displays, the pixel matrix produces the light and forms the image in one step. No matter the process, the pixel matrix is comprised of an array of pixels in height and width of a certain color depth that make up the display. For the display used in this chapter, the color depth is 18 bits, consisting of 6 bits each for the red/blue/green components of a pixel. That means that the information required to paint the screen one time is 240 bits wide x 320 bits tall x 18 bits of color = 172,800 bytes. That’s a lot of data, and it is more data than we can hold in the RAM of the Wonder Gecko MCU. Therefore, it will require some intelligent code to drive the display or an external memory buffer to store the image data.

The backlight is necessary for TFT LCD displays to allow the display to be seen. Without a backlight, a color TFT LCD will show no image. A monochrome LCD is a little different, since the segments can be seen if they are in the “on” state. The brightness of an LCD screen is sometimes controlled by applying a Pulse Width Modulated (PWM) signal to a pin (or pins) that controls the LED backlight. This is exactly what we have already done in the last chapter to dim an LED.

A frame buffer is a block of RAM that holds all of the color information for every pixel (172 kB for this display) that is used to paint a single image (or “frame”) to the display. This buffer is required to exist somewhere in the system because it is used by the display driver chip to refresh the LCD image many times per second.

The type of architecture used in our display (and system) has a huge impact on how we will write our software code, as well as how well our display will perform. You cannot assume that any model of MCU can sufficiently drive any type of display. You must be aware of the architecture details and MCU pinout so that you can determine the best type of display for your needs.

Since graphic displays are complex devices, the code that runs them should be broken up into parts that deal with only one part of the problem. This is known as a software stack.

At the top of the stack is the application software. Application software is focused on providing a solution to the end user, such as the content of menus, fetching images from flash storage, responding to user input, and generally deciding what to do next. Application software should not have to be bogged down with the simple task of how to write a snippet of text to the screen, or the exact details of how to display an image. These things should be handled further down the stack to keep your application code simple.

In order for your application code to stay focused on its mission, your graphics library should provide useful methods to do common things, such as paint the screen with a color, display text, create lines or shapes, and display graphic images. We will learn how to build a very simple graphics library of our own as part of this chapter.

At the bottom of the software stack, the device driver is the necessary code that customizes your graphics library for your particular display device architecture and physical hardware connection. (Note that a software device driver is not the same thing as the device driver chip on the physical display.) Graphics libraries are flexible, and can be adapted to many different display architectures, but they need to be configured for your display architecture and MCU. The device driver provides this customization, providing the display’s resolution and color depth, mapping the data bus for the display to GPIO pins on your MCU and setting up the memory for the frame buffer (if applicable).

The shield is fully assembled, tested and ready to go. No wiring, no soldering! Simply plug it in and load up our library - you"ll have it running in under 10 minutes! This Fantastic TFT display is big (2.8" diagonal) bright (4 white-LED backlight) and colorful (18-bit 262,000 different shades)! 240x320 pixels with individual pixel control. It has way more resolution than a black and white 128x64 display. As a bonus, this display comes with a resistive or capacitive touchscreen attached to it already, so you can detect finger presses anywhere on the screen.

Main features2.8"240x320CPU Interface: SPIFree 11 pins on the Arduino header4 MB flash and micro-SD card3.3V and 5.0V Input voltage compatibleSupport bothArduinoandmbed

There"s two versions of the shield. One has a resistive touch screen, one has a capacitive one. The TFT display and pinouts is the same for both. The microSD card is the same too. The differences come in on the touch screen controller.

TFT Screen PinsDigital #13orICSP SCLK- This is the hardware SPI clock pin. By default its digital #13. By cutting a jumper and soldering another on the back, you can move this line from #13 to the ICSP clock pin. This pin is used for the TFT, microSD and resistive touch screen data clockDigital #12orICSP MISO- This is the hardware SPI master-in-slave-out pin. By default its digital #12. By cutting a jumper and soldering another on the back, you can move this line from #12 to the ICSP MISO pin. This pin is used for the TFT, microSD and resistive touch screen dataDigital #11orICSP MOSI- This is the hardware SPI master-out-slave-in pin. By default its digital #11. By cutting a jumper and soldering another on the back, you can move this line from #11 to the ICSP MOSI pin. This pin is used for the TFT, microSD and resistive touch screen dataDigital #10- This is the TFT CS (chip select pin). It"s used by the Arduino to tell the TFT that it wants to send/receive data from the TFT onlyDigital #9- This is the TFT DC (data/command select) pin. It"s used by the Arduino to tell the TFT whether it wants to send data or commands

Resistive Touch Controller PinsDigital #13orICSP SCLK- This is the hardware SPI clock pin. By default its digital #13. By cutting a jumper and soldering another on the back, you can move this line from #13 to the ICSP clock pin. This pin is used for the TFT, microSD and resistive touch screen data clockDigital #12orICSP MISO- This is the hardware SPI master-in-slave-out pin. By default its digital #12. By cutting a jumper and soldering another on the back, you can move this line from #12 to the ICSP MISO pin. This pin is used for the TFT, microSD and resistive touch screen dataDigital #11orICSP MOSI- This is the hardware SPI master-out-slave-in pin. By default its digital #11. By cutting a jumper and soldering another on the back, you can move this line from #11 to the ICSP MOSI pin. This pin is used for the TFT, microSD and resistive touch screen dataDigital #8- This is the STMPE610 Resistive Touch CS (chip select pin). It"s used by the Arduino to tell the Resistive controller that it wants to send/receive data from the STMPE610 only

MicroSD card PinsDigital #13orICSP SCLK- This is the hardware SPI clock pin. By default its digital #13. By cutting a jumper and soldering another on the back, you can move this line from #13 to the ICSP clock pin. This pin is used for the TFT, microSD and resistive touch screen data clockDigital #12orICSP MISO- This is the hardware SPI master-in-slave-out pin. By default its digital #12. By cutting a jumper and soldering another on the back, you can move this line from #12 to the ICSP MISO pin. This pin is used for the TFT, microSD and resistive touch screen dataDigital #11orICSP MOSI- This is the hardware SPI master-out-slave-in pin. By default its digital #11. By cutting a jumper and soldering another on the back, you can move this line from #11 to the ICSP MOSI pin. This pin is used for the TFT, microSD and resistive touch screen dataDigital #4- This is the uSD CS (chip select pin). It"s used by the Arduino to tell the uSD that it wants to send/receive data from the uSD only

The TFT LCD library is based off of the Adafruit GFX graphics core library. GFX has many ready to go functions that should help you start out with your project. Its not exhaustive and we"ll try to update it if we find a really useful function. Right now it supports pixels, lines, rectangles, circles, round-rects, triangles and printing text as well as rotation.

We have example code ready to go for use with these TFTs. Libraries need to be downloaded and installed. Such as:dmtftlibrary,Adafruit ILI9341 library, andAdafruit GFX Library!

This TFT LCD display can display colour graphics and is a touch sensitive screen. It has an SD card slot too for storing images.This display board can be inserted directly on to the Arduino pins, without using any wires. That’s why it is called a shield.

Wiring is so easy – just plug the display shield on to the Arduino pins. While plugging it in, make sure that the 5V of the LCD goes to the 5V of the Arduino UNO board and also remember to stick a piece of insulation tape on the Arduino’s USB port to avoid short circuits.

Adafruit_TFTLCD library – It’s the LCD’s hardware specific library. The original version of the Adafruit_TFTLCD library did not work for me. So, I used a modified version of it. Someone has modified the library for various chipsets and I found it from the arduino forum for my display board. The modified version can be found here : https://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=288475.0;attach=107569. Download it to the libraries folder of the Arduino IDE.

It’s better to know the TFT display’s driver ID. To find that out, I wrote a program (available at the end of this note). The program will print the LCD’s driver ID into the serial monitor and will also display colours on the LCD screen.  After uploading the program, just make sure that the  serial monitor is open and the baud rate is set to 9600.

Adafruit_TFTLCD has some examples along with the library. They can be compiled and uploaded to try the display. Examples like tftpaint marks out the point were we touch.

Spice up your Arduino project with a beautiful large touchscreen display shield with built in microSD card connection. This TFT display is big (2.8" diagonal) bright (4 white-LED backlight) and colorful (18-bit 262,000 different shades)! 240x320 pixels with individual pixel control. It has way more resolution than a black and white 128x64 display. As a bonus, this display has a resistive touchscreen attached to it already, so you can detect finger presses anywhere on the screen.

If you are not using an Arduino-shaped microcontroller, check out our 2.8" TFT breakout board which can be easily wired up to any processor the breakout board version does not have microSD holder.