Serial SPI Arduino 8"TFT LCD Touch Shield RA8875 for Mega/Due/Uno

Description

Spice up your Arduino project with a beautiful large touchscreen display shield with built in microSD card connection. This TFT display is big (8" diagonal) bright (36 white-LED backlight) and colorfu 800x480 pixels with individual pixel control. As a bonus, this display has a optional resistive touch panel attached on screen by default.

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 (UNO/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 8 inch screen,the high current is needed.But the current of arduino uno or arduino mega board is low, an external 5V power supply is needed. Refer to the image shows the external power supply position on shield ER-AS-RA8875.

For people who want the same screen but not in a shield, check out our 8 " TFT breakout.

What's included in the package ?

Number	Standard Accessory Name	Quantity
1	8 inch TFT LCD Display with RA8875 Controller Board	1
2	Arduino Shield	1

*The default power supply is 5V and the default interface is 4-wire serial 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
	8"800x480 Dots TFT LCD with RA8875 Controller Board Datasheet	1.0	English	Jun-19-2014	643K
	Controller IC RA8875 Datasheet	1.0	English	Apr-11-2016	4.1M

 

Datasheet and Schematic for Arduino Shield

Format	Documents Name	Version	Language	Update Date	Size
	ER-AS-RA8875 Datasheet	1.0	English	Mar-08-2016	767K
	ER-AS-RA8875 Arduino Schematic Diagram	1.0	English	Aug-08-2019	252K

  

Datasheet for Touch Panel

Format	Documents Name	Version	Language	Update Date	Size
	8 inch Resistive Touch Panel Outline Drawing	1.0	English	Jun-21-2014	266K
	Resistive Touch Panel Controller XPT2046 Datasheet	1.0	English	May-08-2007	579K
	8 inch Capacitive Touch Panel Outline Drawing	1.0	English	Nov-21-2018	308K
	Capacitive Touch Controller GT911 Datasheet	1.0	English	May-11-2015	1.56M

 

Tutorial - Arduino Due (MEGA 2560,Uno)Libraries,Examples

Format	Documents Name	Version	Language	Update Date	Size
	Libraries+Examples for 4-wire SPI 8"Resistive Touch Shield	1.0	English	Dec-01-2016	58K
	Libraries+Examples for 4-wire SPI 8" Capacitive Touch Shield	1.0	English	Oct-28-2021	22K
	Libraries+Examples for 4-wire SPI Micro SD Card or TF Card	1.0	English	Dec-20-2016	1.6M