TFT Display and Arduino: Setup and Programming | How to connect LCD to arduino 1.8" 2.8" 3.5"

[@ciakmanMinecraft]

This video is perfect. I have very slight java experience but nothing else and am attempting to build a HUD sort of screen with this exact setup. This helps so much! Thank you!

[@MikaelAbehsera]

Glad it helped!

[@TheOldKid]

Thanks for the video. That image animation would drive me nuts. I bought one to load a couple pics of my grand kids on sd card and put it on my wifes desk. Just got it in the mail today. Hope i get it right

[@MikaelAbehsera]

if you have questions join the discord group, its free and lots of people willing to help!

[@fazlayrabbi72]

Can I use this to display my pc's temperature or fps on running games?

[@MikaelAbehsera]

yeah why not!

[@trish2828]

Hi! Thank you for this. Can you share with us how I can have say a 5 second video loop play on the screen when I open it and if it's possible to power the screen via a battery instead of it being plugged in? It doesn't have to be a touch screen TFT. I have very minimal knowledge in programming, hope you can help me out. Thanks!

[@MikaelAbehsera]

yeah it can be battery powered, and for a small video youll most likely have to play the frames as a slideshow to make it look like a video!

[@gfutsdesign]

hey Mikael, how would i add touch activation to change the image displayed on the screen? Thanks!!

[@MikaelAbehsera]

youll need code to match, but yes you can use tft touch displays

[@thefrugalphotographer]

Is it possible to connect a microphone input to this setup?

[@MikaelAbehsera]

Unfortunately not really, there are microphones for arduino but in my experience it’s not that great, best bet would be a microphone module with a processor, they do exist but I haven’t tried it yet

[@thefrugalphotographer]

@@MikaelAbehsera But where would you connect it :)

[@nemonespider]

Is there a way to power the arduino inside a RC plane and can I run a video off the sd card I’m building a fpv jet and looking to use it for my gauges

[@MikaelAbehsera]

if you can power it I dont see why not, Is the screen with you or in the RC plate?

[@nemonespider]

@@MikaelAbehsera it will be in the RC plane.. also what do I need if I want to get altitude,speed and attitude readings from the arduino I’ve seen a company called RC gauges but looks like they went out of business

[@ritesha8050]

hello what i want to do is an lcd but with uv light as the backlight, ill use that for pcb making. What LCD will be appropriate for that

[@MikaelAbehsera]

hmm not sure, you might have to modify a normal one and change the white blacklight to UV

[@salc9593]

Hello Mikael, thank you for posting this video as the information you present is exactly what I'm seeking as I am working on a project which will require a 2.8" (diagonal) screen. I do have a couple questions I'm hoping you can help me with. 1st is the actual viewing area of the screen 2.8" (diagonal), 2nd. where did you purchase your screen lastly what is a "Non" TFT Display referenced as. I looking forward to reviewing your other videos on this subject and your other instructional and informative videos. 🙂

[@MikaelAbehsera]

im not sure what a non tft is, but they have touchscreen and non touchscreen so could be that?

[@ajaytainwala]

Hi mikael , I tried this same steps and i have 2.4' inch tft shield and when i uploaded the code its just showing the white screen and also tried to reset it and also tried with other examples its not working Please help

[@MikaelAbehsera]

hard to know whats wrong but I would start with the wiring, if the screen is showing white we know its getting power but maybe the data lines arent in the right place

[@asbjrngrov456]

I have a 3.5" display not touch, but I can't get it connected. When i try, the screen goes white, but stays white as well. I have tried multiple code examples, but no change. Do you have some suggestions what can be wrong?

[@MikaelAbehsera]

hard to speculate, check all the pins see if any are broken/short. We have a discord were it might be easier to help there! discord.gg/GygvSdf

[@TheOldKid]

Im confused. I thought woof and miniwoof was the name of your file. Then i load the bmp to see if my pics come up but woof.bmp and miniwoif.bmp is on here. Do i delete those and write in my image file number?

[@MikaelAbehsera]

as long as the name in the files and code is the same they can be anything you want!

[@desalegnsimon6671]

how can I control my DIY cnc with uno TFT set up? like open file, run G code, pause and resume work etc?

[@MikaelAbehsera]

im not sure, but i dont see why not.

[@muwaffaq27]

Hello Mikael, can a 32 GB SD card work for the dog picture example? or a 4 GB is recommended?

[@MikaelAbehsera]

yeah shouldnt matter, but sometimes really large ones freak them out for some reason

[@m3lateef]

Thanks for sharing. I'm trying to build something like a tiny tablet for a kid for learning purposes, so i need this kind of touch screen , mp3 player, speaker, battery, ... i need the size of the project to be compact. Do you know what kind of batteries i can use? And any advices to make the project compact ?

[@MikaelAbehsera]

Lipo batteries are nice but you’ll need to get a charger for them

[@m3lateef]

@MikaelAbehsera This arduino board needs 5v battery, correct? So i would need two of the 3.7v lipo batteries in series? Can the charging circuit charge both of them in series connection?

[@SainiChirag-j8w]

Is this display work with using Adriano nano

[@MikaelAbehsera]

most will, just have to make sure you can connect all the pins on the nano, which has a lot less then uno/mega

[@hal47]

Hi sir I need the code which you use it to to make tft 2.8 playing video if you never mind

[@MikaelAbehsera]

In the video I show you where the code is located, when you install the library the code examples are there 4:27

[@TheOldKid]

If you watched the video you'd know where you can get it

[@stuket100]

Would these run from a power bank at all?

[@MikaelAbehsera]

i dont see why not!

[@denistremblay4713]

i an REALLY new at arduino and i want to make a project with 2 of those tft display, can 1 arduino drive 2 0 TFT displays 480x320 no touch (14 pins + 4 for to the SD card? And thanks for this video, it's in my favorites so i can use it later.

[@MikaelAbehsera]

Join the discord so we can help but I’d recommend learning one thing at a time and then combining them into a project if you’re new

[@AhmedAtif-q8k]

Hello Mikael Can i download a GUI program to this screen with the SD Card? if yes how can i do this ,thanks alot.

[@MikaelAbehsera]

not sure, there isnt too much on this so you would probably have to do it from scratch yourself

[@kidrar8152]

Can I run C on this instead of the built in language?

[@MikaelAbehsera]

should be able too, but some built in functions are they way they are

[@alhasan838]

How can I create an interface with an image matrix

[@MikaelAbehsera]

Could you elaborate on what your trying to achieve? if you want more help we have a discord discord.gg/GygvSdf

[@LokeshB-c8r]

Which sd card should we use?

[@MikaelAbehsera]

Whichever you would like, it’s more the formatting then the card! But I know people have had problems with over 32gb

[@ReyciclismoMTB]

Just found your channel, very cool video. Looking to add a display to a PS, for cd player mostly.

[@MikaelAbehsera]

thanks, did you get that done? would love to see it

[@FlightheroRC]

could you do a video for an artificial horizon?

[@MikaelAbehsera]

can you explain further, i dont completely understand

[@Hydro-Ponik]

I cracked mine putting it on the pi zero 2 !

[@MikaelAbehsera]

nice

[@JshDav]

My 2.0" colour tft screen (non touch screen) has 16 pins and i cant figure out where to plug most of them into the arduino... Do you know where i can find the pinout? the joys of cheap Chinese parts lol

[@MikaelAbehsera]

try and find the manufacture site and get a translation app lol, thats how i do it

[@karismaraju]

can i use this lcd in esp32

[@Maxcraft7050]

I think you can because I've seen someone use a simple 0.96" display for esp32

[@karismaraju]

@@Maxcraft7050 can you help me

[@Maxcraft7050]

@@karismaraju I wish I knew more so not really but you can search on youtube for the 0.96 inch display with esp32 or tft display with esp32

[@nalaniwijasingha7793]

Give mi a window program cord link

[@MikaelAbehsera]

wat

[@Ayrin69]

mine is just stuck on a blank white screeen 💀

[@MikaelAbehsera]

Seems to be more then just you, check the wiring over, and use one of the example scripts provided from the tft library we used

[@meadowshd29]

@@MikaelAbehsera With the tft display I got, it needed a 1k ohm resistor between the led pin and the 3.3v connection to load the led a bit slower iirc. That’s from what I read and found elsewhere online. Mine behaved similarly and only displayed a blank white screen until I did that.

[@theokerner535]

What coding language is this? C++ or phyton?

[@hisroyalbaguette6809]

C++

[@theokerner535]

@@hisroyalbaguette6809 thx

[@MikaelAbehsera]

c++!

[@fleezyt2418]

The example didn't work for my 2.8 inch tft touch screen

[@MikaelAbehsera]

can you share more information? cant really help if you just say its not working...

[@fleezyt2418]

@@MikaelAbehsera like when I ran the example the screen was white and nothing happened

[@doybarbado1497]

How to play a video?

[@MikaelAbehsera]

turn video into sperated frames and play each frame one by one

[@serhiifediakov8171]

That's great but where is the link to AliExpress?

[@MikaelAbehsera]

some of them got deleted, so the link goes to nothing, but you can just look up oled color/nocolor/tri color and youll get a bunch

[@raindrops2588]

Pai unde e Windows XP ????????

[@MikaelAbehsera]

thumbnail?

[@CharizardFan_og]

The video is very soft. I can hardly hear you...

[@TheRobloxG]

Turn up your volume

[@CharizardFan_og]

@@TheRobloxG My volume is set to Max both on KZbin and the PC. Other videos are fine but some videos I have to put my ear to the speaker to hear anything

[@MikaelAbehsera]

@CharizardFan_og seems weird since every video I make I check on speaker and headphones at 50% before I upload, but I’ll keep it in mind for future ones

[@janet-tx8cj]

Unwatchable due to interruptions by adverts. First bit was good but got sabotaged by a stream of never ending adverts. Dit not return to next section of video. Sorry Mikael but your work has been rendered unusable by the platform. I suppose it had to happen, no such thing as a free lunch, or a reasonable one-advert lunch.

[@MikaelAbehsera]

Unfortunately that’s how it goes, but if the video really does help you watching the ads is how I pay the bills to make these, I agree with what you said though.

[@AgentOffice]

Wow

[@MikaelAbehsera]

Wow

[@d2doctor]

That's Vogon poetry in green, not gibberish 🤨

[@MikaelAbehsera]

😂

[@多倫多joechan]

😂ai

[@MikaelAbehsera]

wot

[@qsdrfghgujfddyffguff]

100% worest quality chinese displys availble in the market

[@MikaelAbehsera]

cheap tho!