DanDev
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Connect Raspberry Pi with Official Arduino TFT Screen

Mon Mar 02, 2020 9:23 pm

Hi everybody,
I've been owning for a few years now this useful LCD screen from Arduino https://www.arduino.cc/en/Guide/TFT and I wanted to ask if it was possible to connect it to the Raspberry Pi 2. The official website reports that it's based on the Adafruit ST7735 library, so I thought that as a screen it was similar to the ST7735 models. I followed these two guides, including the Luma library that seems to be famous for the use of screens with Raspberry, but both of them have the same result: colorful and confusing lines when I start a script. I realize I'm close to the solution, but I don't understand why it doesn't want to work. I have countered the pin connections several times and used them as the guides show.
These are the tutorials:
1 - https://luma-lcd.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html
2 - https://jakew.me/2018/01/19/st7735-pi/

it is also possible that it contains a proprietary chip that does not allow to use it with cards other than arduino and therefore only with the official library https://www.arduino.cc/en/Reference/TFTLibrary

Thanks for your help

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