Arduino + TFT LCD

I happened to find this 2.8 " TFT LCD on ebay here manufactured by a chinese company called ARMJISHU. The only way i came to know about this TFT was because of the fact that the manufacturers were generous enough to put their website url on the PCB silkscreen. If this detail would not have been there i would never have known what display driver chip it runs or what touchscreen driver it uses. If you head over to the ARMJISHU site it's all in chinese and i could not find this tft sold as a separate product. It was however sold as a part of their STM32 kit. It was in the CD for this kit (which was a whopping 1.2 GB download from the site) that i found the source code for all the peripherals used by the kit and in the tft example i found that the driver was a SSD1289 and a ADS7843 touch controller. 

Once you know the controller it is pretty easy to find the Arduino drivers for the same. I hooked up the tft to the Arduino MEGA and was able to run some sample code using the UTFT library. The touchscreen never worked with this library from elechouse. I am guessing it's damaged. I saw many posts on the internet about people not being able to use this TFT just because they could not find details about it. I hope this post serves as a reference, if they find this post ;)

 The connections for the ATMega 2560. The colored names are the pins on the TFT header. CS is actually named LCD_CS on the tft pcb. RD pin on the tft header has to be directly connected to 3.3V.

The output. Something does not seem right ? Can you guess the last number in the sequence ?

The hookup guide for the TFT using the Mega can be found in the UTFT pdf manual. The code i used is just the example available in the UTFT lib. One has to just uncomment the Arduino Mega API call and comment out the Uno one. The first parameter to the class variable declaration has to be set to the display model, in this case SSD1289.

Update

While using the ADS7843 library from the link mentioned above you might get some errors in ads7843.h like:

ads7843.h:34: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of 'Pio' with no type

ads7843.h:34: error: expected ';' before '*' token

In order to fix this, open the ads7843.h file and comment out the line as shown below (the second line too

is of no use hence comment that as well)
 

Next, open ads7843.cpp file and disable the code shown below from the class constructor

The compilation should now be successful...