“A great little display that works really well with the pico, if you are after a small LCD with 4 buttons and a joystick then you cannot really go wrong with this board. The only challenge you may have with this board covering all the header pins on the pico is connecting anything else to the pico, e,g, I2C ports for drivers. However all of the pico HATs have this limitation so if you are a steady hand with soldering then it is easy to jump small wires onto the pico headers .... or just use the extra long headers fitted the wrong way around! Great board at a good price. The example code written by Tony Goodhew from https://www.instructables.com/WS-Pico-13-IPS-LCD-240x240-Display-Workout/ is really good and certainly worth a look to help you with your projects.”
“This is a very handy, bright and colourful little display with 57600 pixels (240x240). A Pi Pico can be plugged into the back or attached with wires or an expander board. The pixels are tiny, only 0.0975mm square, but very clear. The buttons and digital joystick work very well and there are plenty of pins left unused.
Waveshare provide a great deal of documentation and an excellent, easy to use, MicroPython driver in their example program.
The small size of the screen means that the built-in characters are very small and quite difficult to read. There is a simple software solution to produce larger character sizes with a different font. (You can even create your own font.)
I’ve written a ‘Workout’ tutorial, with videos and full downloadable code, which you can find here:
https://www.instructables.com/WS-Pico-13-IPS-LCD-240x240-Display-Workout/
It includes the multi-sized character code.
I found it to be great value and should provide many hours of programming fun.
Just a small problem if you want to use it with the WaveShare Environmental Sensor unit. The GPIO pins 20 and 21 are used by both boards. You can use wires to move the sensor's SDA and SCL connections to other pins.
Tony Goodhew”
“This is a very handy, bright and colourful little display with 57600 pixels (240x240). A Pi Pico can be plugged into the back or attached with wires or an expander board. The pixels are tiny, only 0.0975mm square, but very clear. The buttons and digital joystick work very well and there are plenty of pins left unused.
Waveshare provide a great deal of documentation and an excellent, easy to use, MicroPython driver in their example program.
The small size of the screen means that the built-in characters are very small and quite difficult to read. There is a simple software solution to produce larger character sizes with a different font. (You can even create your own font.)
I’ve written a ‘Workout’ tutorial, with videos and full downloadable code for this board, which you can find here:
https://www.instructables.com/WS-Pico-13-IPS-LCD-240x240-Display-Workout/
It includes the multi-sized character code.
I found it to be great value and should provide many hours of programming fun.
Tony Goodhew
24th August 2021”
