Adafruit 1.14 240 x 135 Colour Newxie TFT Display – ST7789

Say hello to our new Newxie 1.14′ 240 x 135 Color TFT Display Boards – we think it’s T-F-Terrific! It’s the size of your thumbnail, with glorious 240 x 135 high res pixel colour. This very very small display is only 1.14′ diagonal, packed with RGB pixels, for making very small high-density displays. This breakout board is designed for compact ‘stacking’ on a 0.1′ grid – with a vertical arrangement that mimics old-school Nixie tubes.

The display uses plain SPI (Clock, Data In, Chip Select, Data/Command) to communicate and has its own pixel-addressable frame buffer, it can be used with every kind of microcontroller. Even a very small one with low memory and few pins available! The 1.14′ display has 240 x 135 16-bit full-colour pixels and is an IPS display, so the colour looks great up to 80 degrees off-axis in any direction. The TFT driver (ST7789) is very similar to the popular ST7735, and our Arduino library supports it well.

It’s essentially the same display & breakout as our 1.14′ TFT breakout but minimised: we don’t include a MicroSD card or reset line. That means we have only 7 pins required to control the display and backlight. Since the display itself is 0.8′ wide, it makes for a perfect fit. We pre-soldered on 2 x 7 right-angle headers to make it easy to design a stand-up display, both rows are the same contact – we just use the dual row for better mechanical stability so it’s easier to get them nice and straight.

Our breakout has the TFT display pre-attached, as well as an ultra-low-dropout 3.3V regulator and a 3/5V level shifter so you can use it with 3.3V or 5V power and logic such as Arduino compatible, ESP32, RP2040 or Raspberry Pi computer.

Of course, we wouldn’t just leave you with a datasheet and a ‘good luck!’ – we’ve written a full open-source graphics library that can draw pixels, lines, rectangles, circles, text and bitmaps as well as example code and a wiring tutorial, we also have CircuitPython/Python support for the 1.14′ TFT with ST7789.

Resources

• Primary Guide