[EN] The MaixPy’s image class Part 1. draw and find something.

This article discusses how to use image class with TFT-LCD display module of Sipeed M1W dock suit board via lcd class (MaixPy’s lcd class) as shown in Figure 1 provided with MaixPy to study the list of commands provided by image class and an example program using commands about creating a buffer object, clearing the value in the buffer, deleting the buffer, drawing straight lines, circles, squares, character display, saving data from the buffer to memory card (microSD Card), searching for straight lines in buffer (find_lines), finding circles in the buffer, find_circles and find squares (find_rects) in buffers with built-in functionality. It uses the Hough Transform principle to find the position and parameters of the searched object.

(Figure. 1 Sipeed M1W dock suit)

[EN] How to used RPi 3.5″ TFT LCD&Touch Shield with esp32?

Because we bought a 3.5″ display for the Raspberry Pi board to use and wonder if it can be used with the ESP32 board or not. Therefore, this article talks about how to use a TFT LCD Shield designed for Waveshare’s Raspberry Pi with the TTGO T8 ESP32 microcontroller via the TFT_eSPI library to display and operate a touch screen system as shown in Figure 1.

(Figure. 1 When use with ESP32)

[EN] Understand and use the ESP32-C3

We have been using the esp8266, especially the esp-01 and esp-01s modules, to manage the sensor network for quite some time and with the limitation in terms of the number of pins used, the system must be designed to work with STM32F103C8T6 or STM32F401CCU6/STM32F411CEU6. To ensure stable operation, no problems with the esp8266’s WDT were encountered, and over time, espressif released several other microcontrollers such as esp32, esp32-s2, esp32-c3 and esp32-s3.

We have tested and used esp32 almost all the time until esp32-s2 with LILYGO board made us try to order it. The main problem is that the development tools are very late. However, as of now, espressif has released a development kit for Arduino or Arduino Core for ESP32 version 2.0 with support for esp32 esp32-s2 and esp32c3, making it work with ESP32 and ESP32-S2. We got the esp-c3-32s board so this article was born.

This article is compiled from the datasheet of ESP32-C3 WROOM-02, in this article we use the board as shown in Figure 1. The example program is to drive an RGB LED on the board to work by using Arduino Core for ESP32 and the improved ESP-IDF from the article in Ep. 3

(Figure. 1 ESP32-C3)

[EN] ESP-NOW

The article discusses the use of communication developed by espressif to communicate between its microcontrollers via wireless communication, as an alternative to the development of a non-linear  Client/Server system. It describes the working process of working as a service provider, commander, and a set of related instructions through the Arduino core, along with explaining the working examples that come with both Arduino cores, which are basic and Multi-slave, which can be applied variously.

[EN] ST7735s

This article describes setting up the Arduino’s TFT_eSPI library to use the ST7735s-controlled TFT LCD that was written as an example in a previous article in Python. We found that there are 2 0.96″ LCD IPS ST7735s models, which are GREENTAB160x80 and REDTAB160x80. Both modules differ in the spacing between them, as shown in Figure 1. This article uses the ESP8266, ESP32 DO-IT DevKit version with ESP32CAM and STM32F103C8T6. It is a board to test the functionality of the program.

(Figure. 1 0.96” IPS TFT module)

[EN] Improve st7735 blue-tab/red-tab 0.96 ” library

This article is an update of the st7735 library file for Micropython by Billy Cheung (accessed 2021-09-07) published on github. It is a library that has been updated by Guy Caver to support ST7735s. The required libraries include st7735.py and sysfont.py Guy Carver implements esp8266 and esp32 to provide better display speed through the principle of display buffering for pixel storage and additional instructions for sending data from buffer to TFT module via SPI bus.

(Figure. 1 dCore-miniML board with ST7735 0.96″ display module installed)