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Experimental project to drive a TFT LCD with an AVR MCU and avr-libc

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@Torsten Römer Torsten Römer authored on 28 Nov 2023
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README.md

AVRTFT

Simple project to drive a TFT LCD like the
Adafruit 1.8" Color TFT LCD 160x128 ST7735R
with an AVR MCU (ATmega328P) and avr-libc.

Currently implemented:

  • Mostly complete UTF-8 set (code points U+0000 to U+00FF) of Hack font
    with antialiasing (4-Bit greyscale)
  • Some emojis (16-Bit RGB)
  • Write text in Hack including emojis 🙂
  • Draw bitmaps
  • Write text and bitmaps via USART
  • Upload BMP images via USART (16-Bit 5/6/5 RGB)
  • Logging via USART

The AVR is clocked with a crystal for reliable communication via USART.

Ideas:

  • Read pictures from SD Card
  • Display 4K@50Hz videos...

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Write something via USART

Connect to the controller with for example GTKTerm (38400 Baud).
Write some text and a bitmap, and upload a BMP image:

c 0xffff // clear display
d // display the demo
t 0 0 Just some text // write text in Hack to row 0 column 0
b 0 0 1 // write bitmap with index 0 (tiny Linus cat) to row 0 column 0
p 0 0 // prepare to "stream" a 16-Bit (5/6/5) RGB BMP image

Enter emojis

Emojis are entered with a tabulation char + their "code", i.e. Smile!<TAB>s for a smiling emoji.

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