“Does all it says it will. Colour and greyscale is clear. Screen is very sharp (my photos might not be).
The Pimoroni library is straightforward.
It leaves a handful of GPIO unused so the Pico can do more than just the display and the bulit-in buttons (in my case control a couple of heater elements). The Qw/ST port makes hooking up other breakouts a doddle (in my case two MCP9601 thermocouple amplifiers).
One gotcha - the screen protector had a red stripe - I thought screen was faulty (and reported it as such) until Pimoroni friendly support put me right!”
“A great display with useful example documentation to get you started. Delivered in a couple of days as always with great tracking updates. Used it to copy a version of a lander seen on line which was fun to build and program.”
“A great display and with all the supporting MicroPython examples that worked straight away.
It's a shame some of the larger displays (by other vendors) dont have such a good MicroPython support.”
“I already had the smaller 2.0" version of this display which I found to be sharp, bright, and of a good resolution for it's size. It's been great for my own energy monitor project, but I did find it a little small for my application where I want to see it from a little distance away. This 2.8" display was a simple 1 for 1 swap with the smaller one, and it worked immediately with no code changes on the pico which was great.
I now def with the smaller one and leave the bigger one running. Very happy.”
