Adafruit 0.96″ 160×80 Color TFT Display W/ MicroSD Card Breakout (ST7735)

Say hello to our 0.96″ 160×80 Color TFT Display w/ MicroSD Card Breakout – we think it’s T-F-Terrific! It’s the size of your thumbnail, with glorious 160×80 pixel color. This very very small display is only 0.96″ diagonal, packed with RGB pixels, for making very small high-density

displays

.

This lovely little display breakout is a great way to add a small, colorful and bright display to any project. Since the display uses 4-wire SPI to communicate and has its own pixel-addressable frame buffer, it can be used with every kind of

microcontroller

. Even a very small one with low memory and few pins available!

The 0.96″ display has 160×80 color pixels. Unlike the low cost “Nokia 6110” and similar LCD displays, which are CSTN type and thus have poor color and slow refresh, this display is a true TFT! The TFT driver (ST7735R) can display full 16-bit color using our library code.

The breakout has the TFT display soldered on (it uses a delicate flex-circuit connector) as well as a ultra-low-dropout 3.3V regulator and a 3/5V level shifter so you can use it with 3.3V or 5V power and logic. We also had a little space so we placed a

microSD card

holder so you can easily load full color bitmaps from a FAT16/FAT32 formatted microSD card. The microSD card is not included, but you can pick one up

here

.

Of course, we wouldn’t just leave you with a datasheet and a “good luck!” – we’ve written a

full open source graphics library

that can draw pixels, lines, rectangles, circles, text and bitmaps as well as example code and a wiring tutorial. The code is written for Arduino IDE but can be easily ported to your favorite microcontroller!

Note: Breadboard NOT included.

Revision History

As of January 27, 2023 – This product has gone through a pretty significant revision which requires firmware updates! The TFT display uses different initialization code (otherwise it will appear offset and inverted) and the microSD holder is also now push-pull. Previous version was the push-push type. We’ve also updated this PCB with

Adafruit Pinguin

to make a lovely and legible silkscreen. This new version is plug-in compatible (same pinout and PCB shape) but the TFT requires new code compilation and upload!

Specifications

• Product Dimensions: 32.0mm x 28.0mm x 6.0mm / 1.3″ x 1.1″ x 0.2″
• Product Weight: 4.5g / 0.2oz
• 0.96″ diagonal LCD TFT display
• 160×80 resolution, 16-bit color
• 4 wire SPI digital interface – SCK, MOSI, CS and DC pins.
• Built-in microSD slot – uses 2 more digital lines
• 5V compatible! Use with 3.3V or 5V logic
• Onboard 3.3V @ 150mA LDO regulator
• 1 white LED backlight, transistor connected so you can PWM dim the backlight
• 0.1″ pitch header for easy breadboarding
• 2 removable mounting holes in corners
• Current draw is based on LED backlight usage: with full backlight draw is ~25mA

Resources

• Github

• Product Wiki