“Demo worked on power up. Pretty straight forward to geneate new code doing cut & paste from examples. I feed the raw data in via the UART pins on the edge connector provided but had to go to the schematic to get the GPIO pins used. The display itself is bright & sharp and with the examples & documentation can only be a 5 star rating.(A case STL file is available on Thingverse for 3D printing too.)”
“This is a neat little gadget for sure. I was really new to programming (Micropython) when I bought this. I kept running out of memory when having it try and load an image. With the help of some clever folks on the forums I was able to get it to display any image in full resolution and not run out of memory and continue to work and have the buttons do whatever I wanted them to do.
I had another one but I accidentally broke off the USB connector, and my soldering skills were not that great at the time and I just ended up making a hot mess (literally!) so that one is 'stuck' with whatever code is on it. The LCD still works. Maybe I should try and take it apart and steal the screen and connect it with a ribbon cable? Hmm? Curious now...where is that thing anyways!? :)
Cheers”
“Superb device! Can overclock the pico to 250mhz and run the PIO clock divided to 48mhz - giving 7ms for a blit to the st7789v. This gives a frame rate of 110fps. Displays IPS is great - fantastic colours and viewing angles! Do wish they put a rotary encoder on the board tho - that would be so so handy.”
Ahoy - thanks for the review! We sell a couple of rotary encoder breakouts that would be easy to connect to Tufty via Qw/ST cable:
https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/rgb-encoder-breakout
https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/rgb-encoder-wheel-breakout
“Awesome little board; the viewing angles on the display are all the way down to the horizontal, and it runs for about ten hours on the suggested Galleon rechargable battery. I built mine into a 3D-printed case that includes a charger board so it's just USB-C and go, no messing with JST cables: https://www.lionsphil.co.uk/projects/tufty/”
“Tufty 2040 has a larger screen compared to Display Pack 2 (which is nice) and is less bulky because the RP2040 is integrated. Thanks to a parallel interface it can transmit twice as fast (max 108Hz) as SPI (max 54Hz) Only drawback is that it lacks vsync (the TE-pin is not connected to the microcontroller) so tearing can be visible in a few situations. So if you need vsync then PicoSystem and Display Pack 2 are a better choice. Screen is bright enough for me and has good viewing angles. And it is nice that a battery can be connected. Recommended.”
“Tufty 2040 is a wonderful product. A great way to learn and experience Raspberry Pico and MicroPython; none of which, I've done before. In short order, I've already built an interactive badge. And now reading up on how to branch out. Plus the community is ever so helpful. Totally worth the price.”
