Datasheet

Capacitive Touchscreen Paint Demo

We now have a super-fancy capacitive touch screen version of this shield. Instead of a resistive controller that needs

calibration and pressing down, the capacitive has a hard glass cover and can be used with a gentle fingertip. It is a

single-touch capacitive screen only!

The capacitive touch screen controller communicates over I2C, which uses two hardwire pins. However, you can share

these pins with other sensors and displays as long as they don't conflict with I2C address 0x38.

Download the FT6206 Library

To control the touchscreen you'll need one more library (https://adafru.it/dGG) - the FT6206 controller library which

does all the low level chatting with the FT6206 driver chip. Use the library manager and search for FT6206 and select

the Adafruit FT6206 library:

Once you have the library installed, restart the IDE. Now from the examples->Adafruit_FT6206 menu select

CapTouchPaint and upload it to your Arduino.

This page is for the Capacitive Touch Screen version of the Shield!

The touch screen is made of a thin glass sheet, and its very fragile - a small crack or break will make the

entire touch screen unusable. Don't drop or roughly handle the TFT and be especially careful of the corners