This lovely little display breakout is the best 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 1.8" display has 128x160 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 18-bit color (262,144 shades!). And the LCD
will always come with the same driver chip so there's no worries that
your code will not work from one to the other.
The breakout has the TFT display soldered on (it uses a delicate
flex-circuit connector) as well as a ultrthere is also 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.
