So I've got this 3.5" TFT from afdafruit that I'm using in 8-pin mode, and it's working fine, but this seems like a perfect opportunity for a shift register! Unfortunately, most of the TFT libraries I've found assuming the 2-9 connection and are not made to support a shift register. Is there an easier solution then modifying their code to work with a shift register, or am I over-thinking this?
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You’d probably have to add that support yourself. If it works well, consider contributing back to the open source project.
Note that using a shift register will be functionally similar to SPI (in fact, you could send data to the shift register with SPI). It would be interesting to see if it’s any faster.
@mday SPI as is my nemesis as I have failed to ever to get two SPI devices simultaneously due to my poor knowledge of the interface, which is partly why I went 8-bit mode instead of SPI for the TFT, but I thank you for your insight! Speed comparisons would be interesting, but I don't think I'm at the level of adding that sport yet haha. Still trying to connect an SD card to it along with an NRF24L01...
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