LilyGO T-Display-S3 is an ESP32-S3 WiFi and Bluetooth LE IoT development board with a 1.9-inch color LCD and support for LiPo batteries that follows the company’s T-QT ESP32-S3 board with a tiny 0.85-inch display introduced earlier this month.
The new board offers the same layout as the previous T-Display RP2040 or ES32 boards, but the 1.14-inch display has been replaced with a larger 1.9-inch display that covers most of the board, and thanks to the ESP32-S3 microcontroller, gains proper Bluetooth 5.0 support, as well as vector instructions for AI acceleration.
T-Display-S3 specifications:
- Wireless MCU – Espressif Systems ESP32-S3R8 dual-core Tensilica LX7 @ up to 240 MHz with vector instructions for AI acceleration, 512KB RAM, 8MB PSRAM, wireless connectivity
- Storage – 16MB flash
- Connectivity via ESP32-S3
- 2.4 GHz 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi 4 with 40 MHz bandwidth support
- Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) 5.0 connectivity with long-range support, up to 2Mbps data rate.
- PCB antenna and external u.FL antenna support
- Display – 1.9-inch 320×170 IPS full-color LCD using the ST7789V 8-bit parallel display controller
- USB – 1x USB Type-C port for power and programming
- Expansion
- 2x 12-pin headers with up to 13x GPIO, 1x SPI, 10x ADC, SPI, UART, Touch interfaces, 5V, 3.3V, and GND
- 4-pin connector with 3.3V, GND, and 2x GPIOs/UART
- Misc – Boot, Reset, and user (IO14) buttons
- Power Supply
- 5V via USB Type-C port
- 2-pin 1.25mm pitch JST header for LiPo battery; voltage monitoring is possible through IO04 (but there may not be a charging circuit…)
- Dimensions – 62 x 26 x 10mm
The T-Display-S3 is also the second board from the company, after the T-QT V1.1, to feature an acrylic plate to protect the display and provide a sturdier design.
LilyGO lists Arduino IDE, MicroPython, or the ESP-IDF framework for the board, but the Github repo has only very basic instructions to get started for the Arduino IDE and PlatformIO, as well as Arduino sketches for factory testing and an LCD demo. There are also some libraries in the repository, including a modified version of the TFT_eSPI library:
The TFT_eSPI library needs to modify some settings. It has been modified in the lib. Please use this library or add Micky_commit.patch to the local library.
The T-Display-S3 can be purchased on Aliexpress for $16.98 including shipping (but not VAT for Europeans).
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