0.96-inch 160x80 IPS LCD Breakout - ST7735

Say hello to the 0.96" 160x80 IPS Color Display Breakout – we think it's an awesome piece of display! It's the size of your thumbnail, with glorious 160x80 pixel color. This very very small display is only 0.96" diagonal, packed with RGB pixels, for making very small high-density displays.

This lovely little display breakout is a great way to add a small, colorful and bright display to any project. Since the display uses 4-wire SPI 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 0.96" display has 160x80 color pixels. Unlike the low cost "Nokia 6110" and similar LCD displays, which are CSTN type and thus have poor color and slow refresh, this display is a true IPS! The IPS driver (ST7735) can display full 16-bit color using our library code, 65K Full color.

Of course, there are also several tutorials and libraries for this cute color IPS display.  The open-source library from Adafruit offers many functions including draw pixels, lines, rectangles, circles, text, and bitmaps as well as example code and a wiring tutorial. The code is written for Arduino IDE but can be easily ported to your favorite microcontroller!

It is compatible with ESP32 too:

In the above example, Node32-Lite and this 0.96-inch LCD.  Please refer to the tutorial here: ST7735S interfacing with ESP32 to make the connections, Arduino library installation, and modification needed for it to works on this LCD.

• 0.96" diagonal IPS display, color is more vivid than an ordinary TFT LCD screen
• Size: 0.96-inch
• 160x80 resolution, 16-bit color, 65K Full color
• Direction can adjust to horizontal or vertical
• Control chip: ST7735
• 4 wire SPI digital interface or I2C (IIC)
• Number of breakout pins: 7
• Display area: 10.8 x 21.696mm
• 5V compatible! Use with 3.3V or 5V logic
• Onboard 3.3V @ 150mA LDO regulator, using 5V will provides better brightness and good viewing effect
• 1 white LED backlight, transistor connected so you can PWM dim the backlight
• 0.1" pitch header for easy breadboarding
• 2 removable mounting holes in corners
• Current draw is based on LED backlight usage: with full backlight, current draw is ~25mA
• Working temperature: -20~70°C
• Working voltage: 3.3V
• Physical size: 24 x 30mm

Interface definition:

• GND (Power ground)
• VCC (Power +3.3 or 5V)
• SCL (SPI clock line)
• SDA (SPI data line)
• RES (LCD reset, LCD needs to be reset once after power-on)
• DC (SPI data/command selection pin)
• BLK (LCD backlight control, the default can be left floating, low level to turn off the backlight)

• 1 x 0.96-inch 160x80 IPS LCD Breakout - ST7735

• ST7735S interfacing with ESP32, tutorial to use it with Node32-Lite.
• ESP32 + 1.3 inch 240x240 IPS LCD (ST7789 SPI interface), using TFT_eSPI library, interface with ESP32 and we have verified it. You will need to choose the correct driver for ST7735.
• Tutorial – Using the 0.96″ 80 x 160 Full Color IPS LCD Module with Arduino, by tronixstuff.com
• Modified UTFT library for 160x80 ST7735S display modules and also for ESP8266, Github by nyh
• Tutorial by Adafruit, not exactly the same breakout, but the library and wiring are compatible
• ST7735 Datasheet