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A project log for Xorya TFT

Attempt to port XORLib to high-end PIC32 devices and TFT 320x240 displays with on-board controllers

shaosSHAOS 11/02/2018 at 06:170 Comments

Because I will get badge only on Saturday morning I needed to start coding on something before that. I've got exactly the same TFT-display, but pad pitch 0.5mm prevents to do anything with it by human hands ( and my 45-year old eyes are not happy either : )

So I took very similar TFT-display with different controller (but compatible) and with more human-friendly pad pitch 1 mm (on the left is broken one, but I have good one of the same kind too):

As a reference hardware I took BASYS MX3 board from DIGILENT with PIC32MX370F512L (different package than H):

to free signals for display I desoldered LCD from BASYS and put 16-pin female header instead (LCD still works if connected back to it):

then I inserted proto-board with soldered TFT-display and started playing with it:

2 red wires that go to PMOD A connector are G7 (/RES) and G8 (D/C) - everything else go to that pin-header...

P.S. I was not able to make it working yet, so further XORLib porting experiments happened on actual 2018 supercon badge on site during November 3-4, 2018

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