Arduino 3.5"TFT LCD Touch Shield Serial SPI Example for Mega/Due

Description

Spice up your Arduino project with a beautiful large touchscreen display shield with built in microSD card connection. This TFT display is big (3.5" diagonal) bright (6 white-LED backlight) and colorful (18-bit 262,000 different shades)! 320x480 pixels with individual pixel control. As a bonus, this display has a optional resistive touch panel with controller XPT2046 attached by default and a optional capacitive touch panel with controller FT6236 attached by default, so you can detect finger presses anywhere on the screen and doesn't require pressing down on the screen with a stylus and has nice glossy glass cover.

The pin32 (SDO) of 3.5 display module is also used by touch panel or SD card SPI interface, so we must cut off this pin to avoid conflict with the touch panel or SD card.

The shield is fully assembled, tested and ready to go. No wiring, no soldering! Simply plug it in and load up our library - you'll have it running in under 10 minutes! Works best with any classic Arduino (Due/Mega 2560).
This display shield has a controller built into it with RAM buffering, so that almost no work is done by the microcontroller. You can connect more sensors, buttons and LEDs.

Of course, we wouldn't just leave you with a datasheet and a "good luck!" - we've written a full open source graphics library at the bottom of this page that can draw pixels, lines, rectangles, circles and text. We also have a touch screen library that detects x,y and z (pressure) and example code to demonstrate all of it. The code is written for Arduino but can be easily ported to your favorite microcontroller!

For people who want the same screen but not in a shield, check out our 3.5" TFT breakout.

What's included in the package ?

Number	Standard Accessory Name	Quantity
1	3.5 inch TFT LCD Display with ILI9488 Controller and Breakout Board	1
2	Arduino Shield	1

*The default power supply is 3.3V and the default interface is 8080 16-bit parallel interface.

 

Compatible with following Arduino Boards

Board Name	MCU	I/O
Arduino MEGA2560	ATMEGA2560	54
Arduino MEGA1280	ATMEGA1280	54
Arduino Due	AT91SAM3X8EA	54
Arduino Uno	ATMEGA328	14

 

Attention

If you've had a lot of Arduino DUEs go through your hands (or if you are just unlucky), chances are you’ve come across at least one that does not start-up properly.The symptom is simple: you power up the Arduino but it doesn’t appear to “boot”. Your code simply doesn't start running.You might have noticed that resetting the board (by pressing the reset button) causes the board to start-up normally.The fix is simple,here is the solution.

 

Datasheet for Display Module

Format	Documents Name	Version	Language	Update Date	Size
	3.5"320x480 Dots TFT LCD with Breakout Board Datasheet	1.0	English	Jan-09-2016	1.1M
	Controller ILI9488 Datasheet	1.0	English	Jul-02-2013	3.2M

 

Datasheet and Schematic for Arduino Shield

Format	Documents Name	Version	Language	Update Date	Size
	ER-AS-ILI9341 Datasheet	1.0	English	Feb-24-2016	828K
	ER-AS-ILI9341 Arduino Schematic Diagram	1.0	English	Oct-16-2018	192K

 

Datasheet for Touch Controller

Format	Documents Name	Version	Language	Update Date	Size
	3.5 inch Resistive Touch Panel Outline Drawing	1.0	English	Jan-08-2016	270K
	Resistive Touch Panel Controller XPT2046 Datasheet	1.0	English	May-08-2007	579K
	3.5 inch Capacitive Touch Panel Outline Drawing	1.0	English	Apr-14-2015	257K
	Capacitive Touch Panel Controller FT6236 Datasheet	1.0	English	Jul-24-2014	674K

 

Tutorial - Arduino Due (MEGA 2560)Libraries,Examples

Format	Documents Name	Version	Language	Update Date	Size
	Libraries+Examples for 16-bit Parallel 3.5"Resistive Touch	1.0	English	Feb-28-2019	2.76M
	Libraries+Examples for 16-bit Parallel 3.5"Capacitive Touch	1.0	English	Sep-08-2016	90.0K