Better TFT Library for ESP8266

Posted on Tue 20 August 2019 in ESP8266/ESP32 View Comments • Tagged with esp8266, arduino, embedded, ili9341

In 2016 I wrote a tutorial about connecting ESP8266 with an ili9341 TFT display. That tutorial suggested using Adafruit's library modified to work with the ESP8266.

Now I discovered that there is a much better library which is tailored for the ESP8266. This library is called TFT_eSPI.

This library is …


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Connecting MSP430 with ILI9341 TFT Display

Posted on Sat 30 April 2016 in misc View Comments • Tagged with ili9341, msp430, embedded

msp430 launcpad connected to ili9341 display

In the previous post I described how to connect ESP8266 with an ILI9431 TFT display using the Adafruit library. Texas Instruments' MSP430 is another popular low cost 3.3v MCU used by the maker community. It has Energia which is an IDE forked from and compatible to the Arduino IDE …


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Connecting ESP8266 with ILI9341 TFT Display

Posted on Fri 04 March 2016 in ESP8266/ESP32 View Comments • Tagged with esp8266, arduino, embedded, ili9341

ESP8266 was popular with hobbyists for a long time. Recently I decided to join the hype and bought this module along with a super cheap color TFT display (ILI9341). In this post I will describe the process of connecting those two, using already available code written for Arduino.

ESP8288 connected to ILI9341

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