Adafruit PiTFT Mini Kit 2.8" TFT with Capacitive Touch Screen

Isn't this the cutest little display for the Raspberry Pi? It features a 2.8-inch screen with 320x240 16-bit color pixels and a capacitive touch overlay. That's right, instead of a resistive touchscreen that requires a fingernail or stylus, you can now use your fingertip. The screen looks much nicer, with a black frame and glass cover. If you don't need a capacitive touchscreen, check out the resistive touchscreen version.

This updated design fits perfectly on the Pi Zero, Pi 3, Pi 2, or Model A+, B+! (Any Pi with a 2x20 connector) Not for use with an old Pi 1 with a 2x13 connector. If you want to use a 2.8" display with the original Pi A or Pi B, take a look at the version for Model B. This version also has all 40-pin GPIO pins exposed, so you can connect a 40-pin GPIO cable underneath. Now that it has the same outline as a Pi 3/2/B+, it fits nicely in our Raspberry Pi case bottom and can use our front panel for a compact touchscreen Pi.

The display and touchscreen use the hardware I2C pins (SDA & SCL), SPI pins (SCK, MOSI, MISO, CE0), as well as GPIO #25 and #24. All other GPIOs are unused, and you can still share the I2C pins with sensors, LED drivers, etc. Since we had a bit of space, there are 4 narrow tactile switches wired to four GPIOs that you can use if you want to create a basic user interface. For example, you can use one of them as a power switch.

Use it for console access or let X11 simply appear on the PiTFT for a mini-monitor, even though it is quite small at 320x240. Instead, we recommend using PyGame or other SDL drawing programs to write to the framebuffer.