Adafruit 0.96" 160x80 Color TFT Display w/ MicroSD Card Breakout - ST7735

by Adafruit

Say hello to this 0.96" 160x80 Color TFT Display w/ MicroSD Card Breakout – we think it's T-F-Terrific!

It's the size of your thumbnail, with glorious 160x80 pixel color. This very very small display is only 0.96" diagonal, packed with RGB pixels, for making very small high-density displays.

This lovely little display breakout is a great way to add a small, colorful and bright display to any project. Since the display uses 4-wire SPI to communicate and has its own pixel-addressable frame buffer, it can be used with every kind of microcontroller. Even a very small one with low memory and few pins available!

The 0.96" display has 160x80 color pixels. Unlike the low cost "Nokia 6110" and similar LCD displays, which are CSTN type and thus have poor color and slow refresh, this display is a true TFT! The TFT driver (ST7735R) can display full 16-bit color using the library code.

The breakout has the TFT display soldered on (it uses a delicate flex-circuit connector) as well as a ultra-low-dropout 3.3V regulator and a 3/5V level shifter so you can use it with 3.3V or 5V power and logic. Adafruit also had a little space so they placed a microSD card holder so you can easily load full color bitmaps from a FAT16/FAT32 formatted microSD card. The microSD card is not included.

Of 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, text and bitmaps as well as example code and a wiring tutorial. The code is written for Arduino IDE but can be easily ported to your favorite microcontroller!

As of January 27, 2023 - This product has gone through a pretty significant revision which requires firmware updates! The TFT display uses different initialization code (otherwise it will appear offset and inverted) and the microSD holder is also now push-pull. Previous version was the push-push type. Adafruit have also updated this PCB with Adafruit Pinguin to make a lovely and legible silkscreen. This new version is plug-in compatible (same pinout and PCB shape) but the TFT requires new code compilation and upload!

Technical Details

Revision History:

  • As of January 27, 2023 - This product has gone through a pretty significant revision which requires firmware updates! The TFT display uses different initialization code (otherwise it will appear offset and inverted) and the microSD holder is also now push-pull. Previous version was the push-push type. Adafruit have also updated this PCB with Adafruit Pinguin to make a lovely and legible silkscreen. This new version is plug-in compatible (same pinout and PCB shape) but the TFT requires new code compilation and upload!

Product Dimensions: 32.0mm x 28.0mm x 6.0mm / 1.3" x 1.1" x 0.2"

Product Weight: 4.5g / 0.2oz

2 customer reviews

a year ago
Pimoroni Interstate 75 is a great piece of HW. Works very fast, and the instructions on Pimoroni's web site on how to use it is fantastic. Got it to work in a very short time using python. Love it!
by ronald about Interstate 75 - RGB LED Matrix Driver via REVIEWS.io
2 years ago
Having previously used the Plasma range, I wanted to run something with a few more LEDs. So this was ideal for a 32x64 P3 LED matrix. As with previous uses, this was for a fight timer for our little ant-weight battle bot arenas. The benefit of the HUB75 displays over the lower density WS2812b 8x32 displays, is that they had wider and easier use of fonts and image libraries. In the first draft, I used the Jpeg library for the loading screen. But the low-quality nature of jpegs compression meant solid black was often displayed with a hint of other colours and a bit of blocking. I will probably move from MicroPython to another language which will enable easy use of BMP images, where the colours remain exactly what I want them to be!!!
by Neil about Interstate 75 - RGB LED Matrix Driver via REVIEWS.io

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