Description:
Quite a lot of projects needs a screen to display information, be it temperature/humidity or vehicle speed or an image from the internet. This is a perfect display to fit these projects, it has 65k colors and a resolution of 240 x 320. It even has touch capablity and comes with code examples to make it easy to get started. You can build your touch sensitive interactive project using this display without much effort.
The shield works well with Arduino Mega and Uno, it comes with an SD card slot which can be used to store high resolution images and data. The details on how to access the SD card is given below.
Arduino Pin Connections
| Arduino Pin | LCD Shield Pin | Use |
| 3.3V | 3.3V | Power |
| 5V | 5V | Power |
| GND | GND | Power |
| A0 | LCD_RD | LCD Control |
| A1 | LCD_WR TOUCH_YP | LCD Control / Touch Data |
| A2 | LCD_RS TOUCH_XM | LCD Control / Touch Data |
| A3 | LCD_CS | LCD Control |
| A4 | LCD_RST | LCD Reset |
| D2 | LCD_D2 | LCD Data |
| D3 | LCD_D3 | LCD Data |
| D4 | LCD_D4 | LCD Data |
| D5 | LCD_D5 | LCD Data |
| D6 | LCD_D6 / TOUCH XP | LCD Data/ Touch Data |
| D7 | LCD_D7 / TOUCH YM | LCD Data / Touch Data |
| D8 | LCD_D0 | LCD Data |
| D9 | LCD_D1 | LCD Data |
| D10 | SD_CS | SD Select |
| D11 | SD_DI | SD Data |
| D12 | SD_DO | SD Data |
| D13 | SD_SCK | SD Clock |
Link to library with examples to get the touch screen LCD working:
http://hobbyist.co.nz/sites/default/files/lcdTouch2.4/SPFD5408.zip
Install library in the <Path to Arduino IDE>/libraries folder
Once installed open the File->Examples->SPFD5408 to view and run the examples
To access the SD card, download the sdfat library from this link
https://github.com/greiman/SdFat
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