DESCRIPTION
This TFT colour display with microSD card breakout is the size of your thumbnail, with glorious 160×80 pixel colour. This very very small display is only 0.96″ diagonal, packed with RGB pixels, for making very small high-density displays.
The display is a great way to add a small, colourful and bright display to any project. Since the display uses 4-wire SPI to communicate and has its own pixel-addressable frame buffer, it can be used with every kind of microcontroller. Even a very small one with low memory and few pins available!
The 0.96″ display has 160×80 colour pixels. Unlike the low cost “Nokia 6110” and similar LCD displays, which are CSTN type and thus have poor colour and slow refresh, this display is a true TFT! The TFT driver (ST7735R) can display full 16-bit colour using the Adafruit GFX library code.
The breakout has the TFT display soldered on (it uses a delicate flex-circuit connector) as well as a ultra-low-dropout 3.3V regulator and a 3/5V level shifter so you can use it with 3.3V or 5V power and logic. There is a microSD card holder so you can easily load full colour bitmaps from a FAT16/FAT32 formatted microSD card. Note: The microSD card is not included.
There is a full open source graphics library that can draw pixels, lines, rectangles, circles, text and bitmaps as well as example code and a wiring tutorial available. The code is written for Arduino IDE but can be easily ported to your favourite microcontroller!
FEATURES
- Product Dimensions: 32.0mm x 28.0mm x 6.0mm / 1.3″ x 1.1″ x 0.2″
- Product Weight: 4.5g / 0.2oz
RESOURCES
Downloads:
- Pinouts
Libraries:
- Adafruit GFX Graphics Library
Usage:
- Assembly
- Wiring and test
- Drawing Bitmaps