# Adafruit PiTFT 3.5" Touch Screen for Raspberry Pi

## Overview

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/019/742/medium800/adafruit_products_2097_demo_hand_ORIG.jpg?1410991188)

Is this not the cutest, little display for the Raspberry Pi? It features a **3.5" display with 480x320** 16-bit color pixels and a resistive touch overlay, but is only slightly larger than [our popular original](https://www.adafruit.com/product/1601). 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!

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/019/743/medium800/adafruit_products_2097_demo_screen_05_ORIG.jpg?1410991835)

It's designed to fit nicely onto the Pi Model A or B but also works perfectly fine with the Model B+ as long as you don't mind the PCB overhangs the USB ports by 5mm.

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/019/701/medium800/adafruit_products_2097_side_ORIG_01.jpg?1410987787)

Uses the hardware SPI pins (SCK, MOSI, MISO, CE0, CE1) as well as GPIO #25 and #24. GPIO #18 can be used to PWM dim the backlight if you like. All other GPIO are unused. There's a 2x13 header on the bottom, you can connect a standard Pi GPIO cable to it to use any of the other pins ask you like

![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/019/744/medium800/adafruit_products_2097_quarter_ORIG.jpg?1410991855)

Best of all, it comes **fully assembled** and ready to plug into your Pi! You can use this as a display for running the X interface, or pygame. You can also have an HDMI display seperately connected.

- [Next Page](https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-pitft-3-dot-5-touch-screen-for-raspberry-pi/easy-install-2.md)

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### PiTFT Plus 480x320 3.5" TFT+Touchscreen for Raspberry Pi

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Is this not the cutest, little display for the Raspberry Pi? It features a **3.5" display with 480x320** 16-bit color pixels and a resistive touch overlay [just like our popular original](https://www.adafruit.com/products/2097), but this one is engineered...

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[PiTFT - Assembled 480x320 3.5" TFT+Touchscreen for Raspberry Pi](https://www.adafruit.com/product/2097)
Is this not the cutest, little display for the Raspberry Pi? It features a **3.5" display with 480x320** 16-bit color pixels and a resistive touch overlay so is slightly larger than [our popular original](https://www.adafruit.com/product/1601). The plate uses the...

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