Description
This lovely little display breakout is the best way to add a small, colorful 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 1.44″ display has 128×128 color pixels. Unlike the low cost „Nokia 6110“ and similar LCD displays, which are CSTN type and thus have poor color and slow refresh, this display is a true TFT! The TFT driver (ST7735R) can display full 16-bit color using our 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. We also had a little space so we placed a microSD card holder so you can easily load full color bitmaps from a FAT16/FAT32 formatted microSD card. The microSD card is not included, but you can pick one up here.
Of course, we wouldn’t just leave you with a datasheet and a „good luck!“ – Adafruit have written 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. The code is written for Arduino but can be easily ported to your favorite microcontroller!
TECHNICAL DETAILS
Specifications:Questions(FAQs)
The 1.44″ display has 128×128 color pixels. Unlike the low cost „Nokia 6110“ and similar LCD displays, which are CSTN type and thus have poor color and slow refresh, this display is a true TFT! The TFT driver (ST7735R) can display full 16-bit color using our 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. We also had a little space so we placed a microSD card holder so you can easily load full color bitmaps from a FAT16/FAT32 formatted microSD card. The microSD card is not included, but you can pick one up here.
Of course, we wouldn’t just leave you with a datasheet and a „good luck!“ – Adafruit have written 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. The code is written for Arduino but can be easily ported to your favorite microcontroller!
TECHNICAL DETAILS
Specifications:
1.44″ diagonal LCD TFT display
128×128 resolution, 18-bit (262,144) color
4 or 5 wire SPI digital interface
Built-in microSD slot – uses 2 more digital lines
5V compatible! Use with 3.3V or 5V logic
Onboard 3.3V @ 150mA LDO regulator
1 white LED backlight, transistor connected so you can PWM dim the backlight
1×10 header for easy breadboarding
4 x 0.9″/2mm mounting holes in corners
Overall dimensions: 33m x 45mm x 7mm / 1.3″ x 1.8″ x 0.3″
Mounting Holes: 36mm x 36mm / 1.4″ x 1.4″
Weight: 10.6g
Current draw is based on LED backlight usage: with full backlight draw is ~25mA
Datasheets, Fritzing object, EagleCAD PCB files, etc in tutorial
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