- I just got this cool
Arduino GIGA Display Shield. It works with the Arduino GIGA R1 WiFi. Anyway, this thing's a
monster. Let's check it out. (soft jingle) Well, first things first, the
screen is really pretty big. I mean, here's my hand there. You can see it's like a 3.97 inch display. So, nice big screen.
It's definitely hefty. It's got a built-in microphone and a place where you can
attach an ArduCAM camera. So apparently, you can have
like the camera up here and you can actually
display the image here. That seems like that might be kind of fun. It's got an RGB LED built into it. It's also got an Inertial
Measurement Unit on the back. I guess, and that's it right there. It's like a gyroscope, you know, it can tell the position that it's in. So that's pretty cool. It's got library support,
so that when you touch it, it will tell you how many contacts. I think there's up to five
different contacts it can read. And it will tell you the location of each one of the contacts. So that's pretty neat. I imagine it should really help you make some pretty neat
graphical user interfaces that you can build. The Display Shield is built
for this GIGA R1 WiFi board. I mean, you could really build something pretty crazy with this, I think. And what's neat about, you would think, you know how most shields
attach like on the top, right? So you would expect
this to attach on here. Well, they have these pin headers like on the inside of the board. So at first I thought like, oh, you know, it attaches on the inside and you can attach it like this. Like that. I won't do it. But what they have done,
which I think is really cool, is you actually can attach
it right through the back. So there's like holes on the back. So you still have access to all your pins and it just fits in through the back. That's pretty sweet. I don't know, the way that fits together, I just think it's pretty stinking cool. I mean, if you're trying
to build something slick, I think this would be great. I think the best way to
start using this shield, is just to play around with some of the example
programs that Arduino's created. So we'll link to the
description to this page, but they've got some
different guides they've made for using the different
features on the board. The one that I've checked out the most is called the LVGL guide. And this relies on this
graphics framework. It's called the Light and
Versatile Graphics Library. I've never used it myself
outside of just these examples. So in the guide, they'll walk through the libraries you need to install to use the example programs. And they do a pretty good line-by-line of the different pieces of code. They've got a minimal example that kind of builds these
boxes and columns and stuff. Then they have, they show
you how to upload an image. Actually, this one was probably
the most difficult for me, because you have to convert the image and stick it in the same
Arduino sketch folder. And I was just having an issue
with the image conversion. Turned out to be really easy. I'll link to the image converter in the description, for sure. Okay, so you can upload images to it. And then they've got a little checkbox example
that's kind of neat. They've got a radio button example. They've got a slider example. They have a little bar example. And they've got a button example. So lots of stuff to work with. Lots of little, you know, graphical user interface kind of modules that you could use to build out. So that's kind of neat. And that's just one of their guides. They also have like a graphics guide. I believe this is actually built on top of the Adafruit Library. It just allows you to use
the Adafruit Graphics Library with this GIGA Display Shield. They've got stuff on using the microphone, the Inertial Measurement
Unit, and using the camera. So all in all, I'll say,
hey, it's pretty darn neat. Now, if you're new to Arduino and you want to learn how
to code stuff like this, check out this video next. It's gonna teach you all about the basic Arduino
stuff in 90 minutes. It's a great video. People love it.
