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matherp
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Posted: 02:53am 27 Apr 2015

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I needed a small bright cheap colour display and this one does the job nicely:

There are two variants on ebay, some with red PCBs and some with black. It is essential to get the black ones as the red ones are wired incorrectly.

I'm using this one

The Cfunctions are exactly the same as for the SPI ILI9341 and ST7735 displays, just different initialisation in Basic.

The usual test/example code is used to check correct operation

2015-04-27_124927_ili9163c.zip

The code will run on 28 or 44-pin MX170s, just (un)comment the appropriate lines.

Thanks to sumotoy for cracking the intialisation sequence
Edited by matherp 2015-04-28

CircuitGizmos

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Posted: 04:54am 27 Apr 2015

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Red ones wired incorrectly? How so?

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matherp
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Posted: 06:06am 27 Apr 2015

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The Y coordinates go from 32-159 rather than 0-127 as the controller isn't link-configured correctly

This requires a hack to the code to fix - not simple as it has to cope differently with the 4 screen orientations - so it isn't worth the effort as correct ones are easily availableEdited by matherp 2015-04-28

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Posted: 05:40am 28 Apr 2015

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Thanks!

Yeash. I might have some. I'll need to test them sometime.

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Posted: 10:06am 14 May 2015

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These small displays are really good for the price
Thanks Peter for the heads up

I had to scratch around a little to find the connections so for those you want to get up and running quickly here are the required pin connections

Display Micromite
1 VCC 28 (3.3V)
2 Gnd 27 (GND)
3 CS 24 (Can be set in software)
4 Reset 2 (Can be set in software)
5 A0 26 (Can be set in software)
6 SDA 3 (SPI OUT)
7 SCK 25 (SPI CLOCK)
8 LED 3.3v

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Jman

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