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Cheap Yellow Display (CYD)

Congratulations on being the proud owner of a CYD!

Below are some links that Hobby Stuff have found to help or inspire when trying to get to grips with the CYD.

If you have any suggestions to tutorials or links which have helped you out, please do send it on to us.

Tip Hobby Stuff customer feedback

TFT Driver : The TFT driver is now ST7789 (changed from earlier CYD version which had ILI9341).

Random Nerd Tutorials✔️ Tested

These folk have an amazing selection of tutorials for the CYD (and other SBC's). Here are a few of our favorites...

  • Weather station - Turn your CYD into a weatherstation of pure beauty.

  • Image Display - Guide detailing how to display an image on your CYD.

  • ESP32 with Arduino IDE - A great tutorial of how to get started with ESP32 module programming within the Arduino IDE.

GitHub - witnessmenow

The GitHub user witnessmenow has collated a series of links useful to CYD development, including...

  • Pinout - Insight into the CYD pins.

  • ESPHome - Examples showing how to get the CYD integrated with ESPHome.

craigandheather.net

In addition to writing an entire book on the ESP8266 amongst other books (!!!) and magazine articles, Craig has also released a couple of projects for the CYD...