I've been submersing myself in TFT LCD's for the past few weeks for my next hardware Kickstarter.
The ultimate goal is to have a capacitive/resistive display attched to a driver and then to my microcontroller running Arduino which uses Adafruits graphics and LCD libraries.
For prototyping I'm currently using an official Adafruit 2.8" TFT LCD breakout board which uses the ILI9341 driver and is attched to my 1284P microcontoller running Arduino.
This set up works great however the board is too big currently to fit into my product. I'm looking into cutting it down with a hack saw which is doable but avoidable.
In production depending on volume I'd most likely design and manufacture my own PCB encompassing the display, ILI9341 driver and microcontroller.
So my questions,
(1) Has anyone used a smaller/inexpensive TFT LCD driver board? I'm very wary after buying dummy boards from China.
(2) If there is a suitable smaller cheaper board I could use this in batch production however if I'm to design my own PCB has anyone had any experiences with certain types of inexpensive displays and drivers?