I made sure to get plenty of solder on the four legs to keep it firmly attached to the board, then did a less than stellar job of getting a bit of solder on the tiny pins. The next day, I decided to give it another go, so I got out my soldering iron and did my best to reattach the connector, despite the miniature nature of the surface mount pins. Unfortunately, I didn’t meet with any success during my initial attempts to get it working and threw in the towel completely after pushing a bit too hard on the card as I inserted it, breaking the connector off the board. My curiosity quickly took over, however, and I tried to run some of the sample code. The shield comes equipped with a micro SD card slot, which I really had no real intention of using when I bought it. This becomes less apparent with line drawings using a simpler color palette, but it is very visible when viewing bitmaps or filling the screen with a solid color. The first thing that will likely draw your attention about the screen image is the very noticeable banding. While the picture of the LCD screen doesn’t really do it justice, it should give you an idea of what you’ll see. While you won’t be floored by the rich colors, in the context of price and features, it’s more than sufficient.Ĭompare the original image below to the 16-bit screen representation to its right.
Overall, I would rate it as good enough for the average hobby project. I didn’t have very high expectations in terms of picture quality, so I wasn’t disappointed.
#Touchscreen tft arduino uno pinout code
I’m not sure the code in their libraries will work without modification, but they may be worth taking a look at. There I found a library for a 2.8″ touch screen that looks very similar to this one. I made many small tweaks to the LCD library to make my life a little easier (see below), but the many references to Adafruit in the code led me to give their web site a look. The one with “arduino-UNO” in the name seemed like the most likely candidate, so I opened it up and started poking around.Īfter some trial and error, including finding the correct library, changing library names, altering include file references, etc., I managed to get something on the screen.
#Touchscreen tft arduino uno pinout rar
The shield came packed with one of those tiny CD ROM discs with a few different RAR files on it.