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Having a big Color TFT display for your Arduino Projects can make things much more impressive. Today I am going to show how to use the low cost 3.2" inch Color TFT display with Arduino Mega and Arduino Due. I always wanted to have a big display for my Arduino projects. So, a few weeks ago I decided to buy this 3.2 Inch color TFT display for Arduino Mega from Banggood.com because the price is so tempting! Less than 7$ for a 3.2' color TFT display. With that price, you can't go wrong. -------------------- WHERE TO BUY -------------------- 1. 3.2'' TFT http://educ8s.tv/part/32TFT 2. Arduino Due: http://educ8s.tv/part/ArduinoDue 3. Arduino Mega: http://educ8s.tv/part/ArduinoMega It is listed as a 3" display but I measured it and it is 3.2". Full disclosure: All of the links above are affiliate links. I get a small percentage of each sale they generate. Thank you for your support! -------------------- Library -------------------- For Arduino Mega: https://github.com/Bodmer/TFT_HX8357 For Arduino Due: https://github.com/Bodmer/TFT_HX8357_Due The display has a resolution of 480x320 pixels and has an SD card adapter on the back. I haven't used SD card functionality so far. I will try to use it in the future. If you look carefully you can see that the display also uses a 3.3V regulator so it works fine with 5V and 3.3V logic levels. As you can see the connection with an Arduino Mega board is extremely easy. All you have to do, is to plug the display in, and load the sketch. I have also loaded the demo sketch on the Arduino Due and as you can see it works fine on an Arduino Due as well. Arduino Due, is much faster than the Arduino Mega. The demo sketch needs around 44 seconds to run on the Arduino Mega, and only 22 seconds on the Arduino Due. That's a huge performance difference. Now let's go to the computer in order to see what drivers we need in order to use the display with Arduino. The display uses the HX8357C controller. Unfortunately the UTFT library does not support it anymore. -------------------- QUIZ OF KNOWLEDGE ANDROID GAME -------------------- You can download my latest Android Game which is called Quiz of knowledge here: http://bit.ly/QuizOfKnowledge -------------------- MORE PROJECTS -------------------- Arduino Datalogger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oei3Y6tOhVI Arduino SD card tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sS_oW81NweI Arduino Weather Station Project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jN-3DtS1RI Arduino Nokia 5110 LCD Display: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDwrMeu4k9Y Arduino OLED display tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9EwJ7M7OsI DIY Arduino: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npc3uzEVvc0 -------------------- ABOUT EDUC8S.TV -------------------- Educ8s.tv is a Youtube channel and website which is dedicated in developing high quality videos about DIY hardware and software projects. In this channel we develop projects with Arduino, Raspberry Pi, we build robots and simple electronic circuits. Check out our website as well for more information: http://www.educ8s.tv -------------------- SUBSCRIBE ON YOUTUBE -------------------- Never miss a video: Never miss a video: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=educ8s
