{"id":714,"date":"2013-07-13T18:38:55","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T16:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lallafa.de\/blog\/?p=714"},"modified":"2013-07-13T18:38:55","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T16:38:55","slug":"watterotts-new-rpi-shieldbridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lallafa.de\/blog\/2013\/07\/watterotts-new-rpi-shieldbridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Watterott’s new RPi-ShieldBridge"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the ili9341fb driver<\/a> I wrote for notro’s fbtft<\/a> driver suite you can easily connect and use a Watterott MI0283QT9A<\/a> display with your Raspi. For now you had to wire the display yourself to the Pi and a nice plate connecting the display was missing. Now the wait is over: Watterott designed the RPi-ShieldBridge<\/a>! This nice little plate features the display connector (but also contains a full fledged Arduino board with shield connector)!<\/p>\n

Watterott was so kind and sent me a prototype v1.0 of the ShieldBridge (Thanks again, guys!). In this post I give you a short roundup of this nice hardware that will hit the stores in early\/mid August…<\/p>\n

Here is the PCB triple you need: the Pi, the Display, and the new RPi-ShieldBridge:<\/p>\n

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Display, Pi, and the Watterott’s new RPi-ShieldBridge<\/p><\/div>\n

Another shot: the bridge alone: The RPi extension connector is on the lower right, the display connector next to it. The chip at the center is an Arduino compatible ATmega 328 with some level shifters for the serial and I2C signals around it. The pin headers top and bottom form the Arduino shield connector.<\/p>\n

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Watterott’s new RPi-ShieldBridge<\/p><\/div>\n

As you might have expected: The HW works like a charm with the driver…<\/p>\n

Get started!<\/h3>\n

Here is a short summary of the steps necessary to get you started with the new hardware. (Its mostly a write up of notro’s fbtft Wiki<\/a> and my old posts – but its handy to have everything in one place\/post for reference):<\/p>\n