Adafruit 1.8" Colour Display Shield for Arduino
This great little shield offers a simple way to add both a small screen, micro-SD card slot and a joystick to your Arduino project. The 1.8" display has 128 x 160 colour pixels and is a true TFT offering 18-bit colour (262144 shades).
The display uses 4 pins to communicate and has its own pixel-addressable frame buffer, so you can use it without using all the memory or pins. The shield has an ultra-low-dropout 3.3 V regulator and a 3/5 V level shifter so it is safe to use with both 3.3 V and 5 V Arduinos.
5-way navigation switch (left, right, up, down, select) connected to Analogue 5 and when using the micro-SD card you will use digital pins 4 and 12.
This shield works best with the Arduino UNO and compatible boards. On the Adafruit.com website, 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. The code is written for Arduino but it can be ported to another microcontroller.
- 1.8" diagonal LCD TFT display
- 128 x 160 pixel resolution, 18-bit colour (262144 colours)
- 4 wire SPI digital interface
- Built-in micro-SD slot (card not included)
- 3.3 V or 5 V compatible
- 3.3 V @ 150 mA LDO regulator
- 2 white LED backlight
- Supplied with headers but require soldering
- Display current draw primarily the backlight and with the backlight at full, the current draw is around 100 mA. This does not include the SD card which can draw between 20 mA and 100 mA based on read/write. - Measure current draw in circuit to get precise numbers.
- Board dimensions: 69 x 53.5 x 6.94 mm (2.71" x 2.1" x 0.27")
Adafruit Colour Graphic LCD Displays
