LCD Display 160×128 for micro:bit

LCD Display 160×128 for micro:bit

LCD Display 160×128 for micro:bit

Overview

Introduction

This is a colorful display module designed for the BBC micro: bit, 1.8inch diagonal, 160 x 128 pixels, capable of displaying 65K colors.

Tired of the 5 x 5 LED matrix? Time to get a tiny monitor for your micro: bit, this one would be the ideal choice.

Feature

• micro:bit edge connector, directly pluggable
• Embedded driver ST7735S, supports 65K colors
• Onboard SRAM 23LC1024, used as display cache, no more out of memory
• SPI interface, takes up only a few IO pins
• Backlight adjustment via PWM
• Reserved solder pads for control interface, make it easy to connect with Arduino/Nucleo boards
• Comes with development resources (micro:bit graphical demo/user manual, etc.)

Specification

• Driver: ST7735S
• Resolution: 160 x 128
• Display color: RGB, 65K colors
• Operating voltage: 3.3V
• Dimension: 61mm x 51.5mm

Pinouts

Programming Guide

Micor:bit has variety of programming methods like mbed, micropython, typescript and other programming methods, as well as code online websites which are abundant.

The official recommendation are two programming methods: typescript and micropython. Typescript is the graphical programming language.

Note:For this LCD, we only provide demo code of typescript

wiki: 

www.waveshare.com/wiki/1.8inch_LCD_for_micro:bit