{"product_id":"2-8-tft-touch-shield-for-arduino-w-capacitive-touch","title":"2.8\" TFT Touch Shield for Arduino w\/Capacitive Touch","description":"\u003cp\u003eAdd some sizzle to your Arduino project with a beautiful large touchscreen display shield with built in microSD card connection and a \u003cb\u003ecapacitive\u003c\/b\u003e touchscreen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis TFT display is big (2.8\" diagonal) bright (4 white-LED backlight) and colorful (18-bit 262,000 different shades)! 240x320 pixels with individual pixel control. It has way more resolution than a black and white 128x64 display. As a bonus, this display has a \u003cb\u003ecapacitive\u003c\/b\u003e touchscreen attached to it already, so you can detect finger presses anywhere on the screen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis shield is the capacitive version as opposed to the \u003ca href=\"\/en-au\/products\/2-8-tft-touch-shield-for-arduino-with-resistive-touch-screen\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eresistive touchscreen\u003c\/a\u003e we also sell. This touchscreen doesn't require pressing down on the screen with a stylus, and has a nice glossy glass cover. It is a single-touch display.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis shield uses SPI for the display and SD card and is easier to use with UNO, Mega \u0026amp; Leonardo Arduino's. The capacitive touchscreen controller uses I2C but you can share the I2C bus with other I2C devices.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe shield is fully assembled, tested and ready to go. No wiring, no soldering! Simply plug it in and load up the library - you'll have it running in under 10 minutes!\u003c\/b\u003e Works best with any classic Arduino (UNO\/Duemilanove\/Diecimila). Solder three jumpers and you can use it at full speed on a Leonardo or Mega as well.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis display shield has a controller built into it with RAM buffering, so that almost no work is done by the microcontroller. This shield needs fewer pins than the v1 shield, so you can connect more sensors, buttons and LEDs: 5 SPI pins for the display, 2 shared I2C pins for the touchscreen controller and another pin for uSD card if you want to read images off of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/learn.adafruit.com\/adafruit-2-8-tft-touch-shield-v2\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eOf course, we wouldn't just leave you with a datasheet and a \"good luck!\" - Adafruit have written a full open source graphics library that can draw pixels, lines, rectangles, circles and text. They also have a touch screen library that detects x \u0026amp; y location and example code to demonstrate all of it. The code is written for Arduino but can be easily ported to your favorite microcontroller!\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eTECHNICAL DETAILS\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRevision History:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAs of February 24, 2023\u003c\/strong\u003e –Adafruit have updated this TFT breakout with \u003cstrong\u003ea QT port!\u003c\/strong\u003e They also used \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/adafruit\/Adafruit_Pinguin\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAdafruit Pinguin\u003c\/a\u003e to make a lovely silkscreen. The board is otherwise the same size, pinout, and functionality.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAs of Oct 26, 2018\u003c\/strong\u003e - this board has the I2C pullups connected to IOREF rather than 5V so it's more compatible with 3.3V boards.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSpecifications:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e240x320 resolution, 18-bit (262,000) color - the library uses 16 bit color mode\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHigh speed SPI display with digital I2C touchscreen driver\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe display uses digital pins 13-9. Touchscreen controller requires I2C pins SDA and SCL. microSD pin requires digital #4. That means you can use digital pins 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8 and analog 0-5. Pin 4 is available if not using the microSD\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWorks with any classic Arduino '328. Solder closed three jumpers to use the ICSP header for use with Leonardo or Mega\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOnboard 3.3V @ 300mA LDO regulator, current draw depends on usage but is about 100mA for the display and touchscreen\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4 white LED backlight. On by default but you can connect the transistor to a digital pin for backlight control\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSingle-touch capacitive touch bonded on top\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/learn.adafruit.com\/adafruit-2-8-tft-touch-shield-v2\/downloads\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eDatasheets and PCB CAD files available in the tutorial\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Adafruit","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":3071706333194,"sku":"ADA1947","price":70.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0174\/1800\/products\/1947-05.jpg?v=1524759388","url":"https:\/\/shop.pimoroni.com\/en-au\/products\/2-8-tft-touch-shield-for-arduino-w-capacitive-touch","provider":"Pimoroni Ltd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}