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color and high-angle visibility. The TFT driver (ST7789) can display full 18-bit color (262,144 shades), but almost all

drivers will use just 16-bit color. The TFT will always come with the same driver chip so there's no worries that your

code will not work from one to the other.

The breakout has the TFT display soldered on (it uses a delicate flex-circuit connector) as well as a ultra-low-dropout

3.3V regulator, auto-reset circuitry, and a 3/5V level shifter so you can use it with 3.3V or 5V power and logic. We also

had a little space so we placed a microSD card holder so you can easily load full color bitmaps from a FAT16/FAT32

formatted microSD card. The microSD card is not included, but you can pick one up here (http://adafru.it/102).

Of course, we wouldn't just leave you with a datasheet and a "good luck!" - we've written a full open source graphics