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Adafruit PiTFT 2.8 Touchscreen for Raspberry Pi

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Brand	Adafruit
Operating system	Raspbian
Screen size	2.8 Inches
Connectivity technology	USB
Model year	2014
Human interface input	Buttons

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2.8" display with 320x240 16-bit colour pixels

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Is discontinued by manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 10.16 x 7.62 x 2.54 cm; 68.04 Grams
Date First Available ‏ : ‎ 1 Jan. 2012
Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Adafruit
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01HNA9C3K
Item model number ‏ : ‎ LYSB01HNA9C3K-ELECTRNCS

Best Sellers Rank: 561,272 in Computers & Accessories (See Top 100 in Computers & Accessories)
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‎Adafruit

Item model number

‎LYSB01HNA9C3K-ELECTRNCS

Product Dimensions

‎10.16 x 7.62 x 2.54 cm; 68.04 Grams

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‎B01HNA9C3K

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Is this not the cutest little display for the Raspberry Pi? It features a 2.8" display with 320x240 16-bit color pixels and a resistive touch overlay. The plate uses the high speed SPI interface on the Pi and can use the mini display as a console, X window port, displaying images or video etc. Best of all it plugs right in on top!

It's designed to fit nicely onto the Pi 1 Model A or B but also works OK with the Pi Zero, Pi 3, Pi 2 or Pi 1 Model A+ or B+ (any Pi with a 2x20 connector) as long as you don't mind the PCB overhangs the USB ports by 5mm, see the photos above. If you have a modern Pi with a 2x20 connector, you may want to grab a PiTFT 2.8" Plus which does not overhang

Uses the hardware SPI pins (SCK, MOSI, MISO, CE0, CE1) as well as GPIO #25 and #24. All other GPIO are unused. Since we had a tiny bit of space, there's 4 spots for optional slim tactile switches wired to four GPIOs, that you can use if you want to make a basic user interface. For example, you can use one as a power on/off button. See below for the link to get the optional tact switches, they're not included.

As of 8/15/2014 it comes fully assembled and ready to plug into your Pi! The photos above also show the optional installed slim tactile buttons. The tactile buttons are not included. Some basic soldering is required to install the buttons.

We've created a custom kernel package based of off Notro's awesome framebuffer work, so you can install it over your existing Raspbian (or derivative) images in just a few commands. Our tutorial shows you how to install the software, as well as calibrate the touchscreen, show videos, display images such as from your PiCam and more!

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Getting started with the 2.8" PiTFT on a Raspberry Pi 3B

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 March 2016

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I bought this 2.8" PiTFT for my Raspberry Pi 3B as the Adafruit website stated it works for all RPis. However the screen is delivered without instructions in the box, and finding information on connecting it and getting it going with an RPi 3B is a bit difficult.

However,it does work and here is how to get it going: firstly, you need to follow the instructions given in this forum thread: [...], because the Adafruit modified Raspbian image and their alternative detailed instructions do not work with the RPi3.

Secondly, the female connector on the PiTFT circuit board is smaller than the male connector on the RPi 3, which confused me. What you have to do is make sure the PiTFT connector is fitted to the pins starting from the far left of the RPi3 when looking from above the board with the USB and HDMI connectors at the bottom and the main connector at the top left.

Hopefully, someone will find this information useful while we wait for Adafruit to release an updated Raspbian image for the RPi3.

In the meantime, I am very impressed with the PiTFT and now look forward to getting started with some projects...

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Good for terminal, but impractical for X

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 July 2014

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It is as described however most of the windows in X are larger than the screen, so you cannot click the standard "OK" and "Cancel" buttons in pop-up windows, etc etc.
It is great for the terminal, and would be ideal if you were programming your own front end GUI software with the screen size in mind, but for X it is pretty unusable (which is what is shown in the picture!).
It goes together easilly, had to add some extra double sided tape to hold the screen down.
Tried to install the drivers but it killed my kernel. Used their pre-compiled OS image and that worked fine first time, so I would recommend doing that.
Had no luck doing a screen "mirror" between this screen and the HDMI monitor, which apparently can be done, but the commands didn't work in my case.

17 people found this helpful

Rushed assembly

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 October 2015

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Nice screen for my Raspberry Pi, can see it booting.

The screen was glued to the board with a thin strip of double sided tape, and was not straight. Trying to straighten it, it came off ripping the ribbon cable. I had to resolder 4 of the connections then added proper double sided foam to fix the screen to the board. Now it's much sturdier, but I wish it would have been better made to start with.

It would be nice if Adafruit contributed directly to the Raspbian distro the ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 February 2015

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I managed to get this display working on a gen 1 raspberry pi but on the Raspberry pi 2 , the supplied software just crashes the kernel leading to a re image to get the pi back and running. It would be nice if Adafruit contributed directly to the Raspbian distro the libraries and drivers such that we would not have to face such kernel issues

The Curates Egg

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 March 2015

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4 things to know about this display:

1. It does not require any soldering, it's ready to plug onto a Pi
2. You *will* need to use the Adafruit image (http://adafruit-download.s3.amazonaws.com/2015-02-16-raspbian-pitft28r_150312.zip)
(or be prepared to wrangle with kernel modules etc.)
3. It works on a Pi 2
4. The touch sensor does work reasonably well ...

Don't expect to be able to prototype the next phablet with it though, it's a bit of a journey back through time from a UX point of view.

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Works well and installation is quick and easy. Colour

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 April 2016

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Works well and installation is quick and easy. Colour, brightness, viewing angle are quite good and touch sensitivity seems reasonable. The recommended installation suggests installing a kernel from Adafruit's website. However, by default the ability to output over the HDMI port is disabled, which makes further programming difficult. Workarounds are available on the adafruit website

But overall a very good product.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 October 2014

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This product arrived not working but manage to repair it myself. The double backed sticky tape does not manage to hold the screen in place very well. But overall a very good product.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 June 2015

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Again good product but no instruction with it

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