1.47" Rounded SPI LCD Display Module (172x320)

Very nice looking display, works well on the Raspberry Pico, haven't tried on anything else yet. Looks easy to code in Python and C++ Just got to find some project to use it on

Bought 2 of these displays to display sonos data or solar panel data. My biggest issue was that the Waveshare library wouldn't allow me to use the full display in landscape mode. Portrait mode worked fine. I switched to the ST7789 library. You just need to make sure to configure your display correctly with the right pins: # 176x320 1.47" waveshare display config disp = ST7789.ST7789( height=240, width=320, rotation=180, port=0, cs=0, dc=25, backlight=18, spi_speed_hz=60 * 1000 * 1000, offset_left=0, offset_top=0 ) Then just use the standard PIL library to display text or images.

I attached this to a Pico W driven with micropython. The example code that ThePiHut supply is a god-send because the developer have nothing in their (terrible) documentation about support for Pico running micropython. I'm new to Picos so maybe the rambling unhelpful documentation from WaveShare is just the norm? HOWEVER, ThePiHut supplied code runs up fine and produced immediate output. The display itself is an OK display; it does what it needs to: it is clean, small etc. (and exactly the size I needed!) Beware the developer showing it in portrait form because *** it seems to me - maybe if they wrote some useful documentation there might be a way *** to be a landscape device; I found no way of using the interface to tell the screen that it was 172 x 320 (and having a buffer accordingly) - so any display rotation seems to be on you. You can, however, flip it trivially (in case leads coming out of top or bottom of the display is important to you space-wise) Beware that it - of course - takes a lot of memory for a buffer to drive a screen this resolution/colour depth (the default way for using the device, as coded in the example, is RGB 565, so in practice I think that it is best considered a 65535 colour device). There is not enough memory on a Pico W to support 2 such buffered screens (actually there is but its memory management seems very basic and incapable of allocating said memory even when there are 22kB+ spare if you do garbage collection and do the maths) It should be perfectly possible, however, to have one shared buffer and drive two displays. I have coded this up and when I have cleaned it up will share with the community/ThePiHut. OVERALL: Would I buy it again - yes; but if you're new to Picos maybe start with a display that is better supported with example code for Pico/Python (if that is what you use). For a "been there" developer, yeah go ahead and get one, it's a nice compact package. For context MY EXPERIENCE LEVEL: Pico - absolutely none Micropython - absolutely none (but (too many) years of PHP coding) Displays - I worked at IBM on the Windows display driver for the XGA display card (the card after VGA that nobody has heard of) in native assembly language, so I ought to know my way around interfacing to a display (although that was sometime back in the last century :-) )

Lovely little display... Once you get it working with the Pico. Took a bit of to-ing and fro-ing with the ever helpful pihut and waveshare to get some functioning code and settings for it but we got there in the end and it works well and looks great. Pihut have now put the settings in the product description so all good :)

Really nice LCD with a great resolution and easy to interface to.