A generic optimised 16-bit LCD adaptor for the Arduino

There are many TFT modules available on the market that are designed to connect directly to an MCU to provide a full colour graphical display, just search ebay for “tft module” to see what I mean. Unfortunately for Arduino users the majority of these modules expose a 16-bit...

stm32plus: ILI9481 TFT driver

The code presented in this article requires a minimum of version 3.0.0 of my stm32plus library. The TFT panel The ILI9481 is a driver IC for 480×320 (HVGA) TFT panels. These panels are typically found in mobile phones (for example the iPhone 3G although the display in...

STM32 progress update Apr16

STM32 progress update

It’s roughly a month now since I got an STM32 (ARM Cortex M3) board in the workshop and I think it’s high time I gave an update on my progress. A free toolchain It shouldn’t be this difficult. Really it shouldn’t. My goal was to setup a toolchain from open source...