I recently bought a couple of different controllers hoping to get into using an Arduino and completely lost. The one im most interested in for a current project is one of the ESP32 boards that have a small screen, I followed teh various steps to install libraries etc and uploaded an animated GIF, but now the screen does actually display anything. From what i could see is i would add a file in my case being a cassette tape.h and then reference it as in "include". It appears to upload ok and the light on the back panel is on, but just no display?
I've never used these before, but unsure what i've done exactly, which i've done similar on a adafruit variant as well.
My project i want to incorporate this onto is a 3d printed ghettoblaster that whilst on, just has a animated GIF of a tape spinning.
I'm open to someone also showing me step by step what is required
I agree with lastchancename.
Are you telling that you had a Adafruit display working in the past ? and now you bought something cheap and can't get it to work ? Well, well, well
Your ESP has a ESP-WROOM-32 module. That is good, that is the most generic and common ESP module.
The display that you bought seems very nice and it is cheap, but you might not find someone else on this forum who has it running.
You should not download random things from unknown websites. Do not execute programs that you found and do not make your Arduino environment dirty with old versions of libraries.
Delete everything that you have downloaded for your board. You can also delete the Arduino program files (not your projects) and cleanup the libraries at "Documents / Arduino / libraries". You could even remove every library (folder), and later install the libraries that you need.
Don't forget the hidden "arduino15" folder. Delete that as well.
Then download the Arduino IDE 2.0 and install it. Then install the ESP32 board from within the Arduino IDE. Then try a few things with the ESP32.
The very moment that you copy something unknown to the Arduino build environment for your board, then things might stop working, and you have to delete all those things once more.
There is some comment by someone who bought it: "Everything works, display library Adafruit _ ili9341 HSPI-MOSI 13 miso 12 SCLK 14 CS 15 DC 2, library Tacha xpt2046 _ touchscreen".
That is good news, you might be able to use a known (and up to date) library.
No sorry, i bought a ADAFRUIT ESP32-S2 TFT FEATHER boards, which i got connected to the PC and attempted to do the same, which was based off a gent who does it with those lilly go variants. It appeared straight forward but at the end of the day the screen was too small so i never looked back into it, plus think i ran out of storage with my GIF and maybe it didnt work that way.
I've been watching a few different videos and wondering if where i feel short is actually not doing anything for the screen itself. IE using an example
Ok managed to get it going after watching a few youtube videos, but the last one used a different library "animatedgif" which was simple enough to use and it used the screen. I did have some fun using a different tutorial filling the screen with a colour to test it, inserting random text, changing the text properties and inserting a countdown timer. Still a little beyond my skill set, but still an interesting afternoon
Could you try to use international English please and use full sentences. I'm having a hard time trying to understand you. If you refer to something, please give a link to it, so I know what you are talking about. I don't know what 'gent', 'lilly go' or 'IE' is.
Please be specific. Do you mean the whole board with the ESP32 or just the display ?
The build environment and the libraries for the ESP32 is C++ and is given by the Espressif, the manufacturer of the ESP32. Even the Arduino layer on top of that is made by Espressif.
I don't want to spend more time with this board (unless I am going to use it myself). A Raspberry Pi with a screen is also a good option. The Nextion displays are nice, but the libraries that come with the Nextion displays are annoying. The Nextion displays are usable with this.
Sorry I only speak English, not bilingual at all. Previous response is correct lilly was the brand, ie eg is used to show examples. Also if I drop a mate here and there it's because I'm Australian and it substitutes a few different words
You don't have to spend any time with it, I have it working the way I want.so thanks for the responses to date, it sent me down the right path
I did some C# back when I was a teenager and heard the word python so wasn't sure what it was. I also get confused when people call it visual basic as it is a program.
