HiLetgo 3.5" TFT LCD Display ILI9486/ILI9488 480x320 36 Pins for Arduino Mega2560

This review is for HiLetgo 3.2" IPS TFT LCD. To drive this board, I used a library written by Bodmer as many reviewers already pointed out. To make sure the board is running properly, I ran most of the example sketches from the driver library. Overall speaking, I was impressed by the wide angle viewing of the screen. Although half-VGA (480x320) doesn't seem a lot in nowadays HD era standard, the screen is very clear and colors are vivid. Another advantage of this shield is that you can directly plug it in to Arduino Mega2560. That makes the hardware installation a no brainer as no adapter nor wiring is required. This board also features an SD card slot (Just FYI, the SD_CS is at pin 53). With one Arduino Mega2560, this LCD board and an SD card, one can easily turn them into a mini picture frame project. In my case, I do manage to convert a couple of desktop wallpapers and display them on the LCD screen just to show the quality of the screen. I would highly recommend this board to anyone who wants to work on projects that require an Arduino with a good LCD.

This is a great display but I haven't found a good use for it yet. 16-bit transfer is very fast, but 8-bit is more widely supported. I wish this display supported SPI as well and had a more generally available form factor. It's meant to plug into the MEGA2560 and therefore has a 40 pin connector which is a pain to use with jumpers. Wouldn't buy again.

Used this display to create an Alien scanner, based on the one in the movie Aliens. While it doesn't need to actually detect too many in my area it was fun to build. Used an Arduino Mega 2560 R3, SG90 Micro Servo Motor, an HC-SR04 Ultrasonic Distance Sensor, some wire and switches and custom software and this display to make it all work. The display is sharper and more vibrant than my photo appears. This is not the touch screen version.

Initially I thought this TFT was great, until I went to mount it on a panel. Clearly designed by an idiot making it extremely difficult to mount because there is no room on the backside for screws or nuts. In one corner the power connector interferes with the mounting, I ended up supergluing a hex mount.I used the Bodmer_TFT_HX8357 library with an Arduino Mega2560 and it worked great. The display is bright and clear. It was easy to take one of the supplied examples and learn from it to create the application I needed.However, there are some anomalies.If you write too far to the edge of the screen, noise appears. When I moved the specific display inboard from the edge, the noise disappeared.If you write one display that is larger/longer than the other displays, it will not be erased and will remain on the screen. Ex; 0 to 100 in steps of 10, the last 0 in 100 will not be erased. Instead I tested for 100 and then subsequently wrote " " to clear it off the screen.

I wanted a color LCD display for a piece of test equiment I'm desiging and knew I would like a TFT device (they are fast). This one does not disappoint. It is fast, sharp, and has great color. In short, it looks good and does what I needed.It was advertised as fitting on an Arduino Mega2560, and it does. However, it took a while to find the right library to make it work. Also, there is no real documentation for this thing. fortunately, the controller is well documented on the internet (ILI9486).the attached SD card socket on the bottom was a bit useless for me, as well as the reset button on the edge. I was putting the LCD in a custom printed bezel so I removed the reset switch. I'm connecting it to an arduino 2560 via ribbon cable and kept the existing pin assignments. I'm giving it a rating of 4 ONLY because of the lack of documentation and examples/sample code. I had to dig it all out on my own on the internet.

This is a very nice display. Very sharp with good contrast. The viewing angles are a little better than some of the other displays I have used. The only significant drawback is the lack of backlight control capability. You cannot adjust the brightness.Update: I have purchased 5 of these. The first 4 were 3.2. The last one was 3.5. The 3.2 is no longer available. The 3,2 displays were very good as I said above. The 3.5 does not appear to be an IPS display. The viewing angles are extremely narrow. Even viewing slightly off axis, the display starts to wash out. The 3.2 was much better.

Unit is not supplied with any mention of using libraries so I needed to figure out what to do with it. The only useful prompt was IC ILI9486 for size 3.5 inches so I Google it.Go to "github.com/Bodmer/TFT_HX8357"Good working library, full of examples. You push button "Code", download as zip, then open file "User_setup.h" inside this package, and change 2 lines:Line "#define HX8357B" you change to "//#define HX8357B" and line "//#define ILI9486" to "#define ILI9486" which means you changed IC to correct one/Save it and add to all your libraries this one. It took about 2.5 hours to figure it out. Hopefully you will do it faster now.Once again, display is very fast, and good luck!