ILI9486 serial connection ESP32

Hello guys,

I am wondering if is a possibility to use a serial connection of 3.5 inch tft lcd shield display with ESP32.
I have this display:

With Arduino i used this display using the pins LCD_RST, LCD_CS, LCD_RS, LCD_WR and LCD_RS, but the arduino was not big enough for my code and i switched to ESP32.
With ESP32 the problem is that the parallel connection need too many pins and i am out of free pins.

I know on the picture is mention 2.8 inch. I have 3.5 inch and the pins are the same.

Thank you

Possible? Certainly. Many things are possible. Only some of them are practical.

Leave the shield on the Arduino. Write a sketch for the Arduino that accepts commands from Serial and sends them to the display. Write a sketch on the ESP32 that sends commands via a serial port.

But wouldn't it be simpler to buy a display with an SPI connection and just hook that up to the ESP32?

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You can add external to your existing processor. Using I2C you could add 8 32Kx8 FRAM modules. They are non volatile so will not forget when power goes out and there is no delay when writing to them.

probably simpler to purchase a similar display with an SPI interface
make sure there is a suitable library for the ESP32/display configuration
there are TFT displays with ESP32 microcontrollers on board which saves the problem of connecting the modules

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