# 2.8" TFT Touchscreen
## Overview
Info:
Add some jazz & pizazz to your project with a color touchscreen LCD. This TFT display is big (2.8" diagonal) bright (4 white-LED backlight) and colorful (16-bit 262,000 different shades)! 240x320 pixels with individual pixel control, this has way more resolution than a black and white 128x64 display. As a bonus, this display has a resistive touchscreen attached to it already, so you can detect finger presses anywhere on the screen.
This display has a controller built into it with RAM buffering, so that almost no work is done by the microcontroller. You'll need 8 digital data lines and 4 or 5 digital control lines to read and write to the display (12 lines total). 4 pins are required for the touch screen (2 digital, 2 analog) but because of the way resistive touch screens work, we can share pins with the LCD so the entire setup can be run by 12 pins (10 digital, 2 analog).
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 and text](https://github.com/adafruit/TFTLCD-Library) . We[also have a touch screen library that detects x, y and z (pressure)](https://github.com/adafruit/Touch-Screen-Library) and example code to demonstrate all of it. The code is written for Arduino but can be easily ported to your favorite microcontroller!
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**Specifications:**
- 2.8" diagonal LCD TFT display
- 240x320 resolution, 16-bit (262,000) color
- [ILI9325 (datasheet)](http://www.adafruit.com/datasheets/ILI9325.pdf) or [ILI9328 (datasheet)](http://www.adafruit.com/datasheets/ILI9328.pdf) controller with built in video RAM buffer
- 8 bit digital interface, plus 4 or 5 control lines
- 5V compatible! Use with 3.3V or 5V logic
- Onboard 3.3V @ 150mA LDO regulator
- 4 white LED backlight, transistor connected so you can PWM dim the backlight
- 1x20 header for easy breadboarding, or 2x10 header for cable connection
- 4 x 0.125"/3mm mounting holes with tabs
- 4-wire resistive touchscreen
**This guide is specifically for the TFT LCD** breakout board **. There's a** [**separate tutorial for the Arduino shield**](http://learn.adafruit.com/2-8-tft-touch-shield) **version of this display.**
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