Can a raspberry pi connect to TFT LCD?

I had a raspberry pi on hand, and now I am wondering if it can be connected to a 3.2" TFT LCD touch panel.
http://www.sainsmart.com/home-page-view ... -2560.html
If yes, that would be wonderful. It's like a homemade ipad.

I hope so!
it seems that a similar display can be attached:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMQJmVDgAl8
bye

Can this 1.8" SPI LCD be connected to RPI?

[jamesh]

At this stage, any panel would need to connect either to the HDMI or VGA port. Although there is a dedicated TFT connector on the board it's not currently available for use. Foundation hopes to sell/promote a tested TFT once all tht other stuff is done!

If you just want to use a display without all of the challenge of getting a display to work from the various pins, you might want to search around for small displays that take either composite or HDMI inputs. Adafruit.com has several displays that take composite. I have a MP4 player from JXD that is fairly small and does video input that I've been meaning to use when I get to the r-pi.

Can this 1.8" SPI LCD be connected to RPI?

Yes it's ST7735 based like the Adafruit ones. I've got one with an Sainsmart Arduino UNO from China, comes with the ST7735 code for the Arduino by LadyAda.

wow - thats good for the price

by Eleenwhite » Wed Aug 29, 2012 3:44 am
Can this 1.8" SPI LCD be connected to RPI?

This is a video about it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pP4ee08aJ0.
And this this a post details Adafruit 1.8 LCD and SainSmart 1.8 LCD
http://www.whence.com/rpi/

I have started a project writing framebuffer drivers for small TFT LCDs. I have written a helper module that greatly simplifies writing such a driver. That is if the display is RGB565 and uses SPI. I have ordered two more modules that I will try and make drivers for:
* Nokia 5110/3310 monochrome LCD: http://adafruit.com/category/63 (challenge: monochrome, 1 bit per pixel)
* ITDB02-2.8: http://imall.iteadstudio.com/display/tf ... 19009.html (challenge: parallel databus, no SPI)

Project page: https://github.com/notro/fbtft
Wiki: https://github.com/notro/fbtft/wiki
Currently the wiki is just my own notes made pretty.

[texy]

I have started a project writing framebuffer drivers for small TFT LCDs. I have written a helper module that greatly simplifies writing such a driver. That is if the display is RGB565 and uses SPI. I have ordered two more modules that I will try and make drivers for:
* Nokia 5110/3310 monochrome LCD: http://adafruit.com/category/63 (challenge: monochrome, 1 bit per pixel)
* ITDB02-2.8: http://imall.iteadstudio.com/display/tf ... 19009.html (challenge: parallel databus, no SPI)

Project page: https://github.com/notro/fbtft
Wiki: https://github.com/notro/fbtft/wiki
Currently the wiki is just my own notes made pretty.

Note that the Nokia type display has hardware SPI python code already, but if you can create a faster C++ driver for it, that would be awesome
viewtopic.php?f=32&t=9814

Texy

Note that the Nokia type display has hardware SPI python code already

Yes I was aware of that. The driver I will make is a framebuffer driver, a video driver.

It's the same type of driver that gives video output on the PI:

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# Show info about /dev/fb0
fbset -i

mode "656x416"
    geometry 656 416 656 416 16
    timings 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
    rgba 5/11,6/5,5/0,0/16
endmode

Frame buffer device information:
    Name        : BCM2708 FB
    Address     : 0x4c006000
    Size        : 545792
    Type        : PACKED PIXELS
    Visual      : TRUECOLOR
    XPanStep    : 0
    YPanStep    : 0
    YWrapStep   : 0
    LineLength  : 1312
    Accelerator : No


This the Adafruit 2.2" display supported by fbtft:

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fbset -i -fb /dev/fb1

mode "176x220"
    geometry 176 220 176 220 16
    timings 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
    nonstd 1
    rgba 5/11,6/5,5/0,0/0
endmode

Frame buffer device information:
    Name        : adafruit22fb
    Address     : 0
    Size        : 77440
    Type        : PACKED PIXELS
    Visual      : TRUECOLOR
    XPanStep    : 0
    YPanStep    : 0
    YWrapStep   : 0
    LineLength  : 352
    Accelerator : No


It will fun to see if I can play video on the Nokia display using mplayer