CleO50 – The 5″ Smart TFT Display

CleO brings to market a family of intelligent, simple to program TFT display boards through which engineers can develop imaginative, compelling human machine interfaces, regardless of their experience level. Using Arduino as a foundation, CleO is able to leverage Bridgetek’s high speed bridging and display technology so that improved performance and greater functionality can be benefitted from.

CleO50 is a 5″ smart TFT display shield for Arduino and MikroBUS. It includes a 5.0 inch 800×480 pixel TFT LCD panel with resistive touch, and PWM audio output with in-built speaker amplifier for advanced audio quality. These smart TFT display shields can be easily programmed by almost anyone to give professional looking HMI / GUI’s with no prior knowledge of complex graphics programming or mathematics.

Key Features

The following are some of the key features of CleO50:

  • Inbuilt advanced FT812 graphics controller IC with display, touch and audio functionality
  • Integrated FT900 32-bit RISC microcontroller (MCU) with high speed performance (310DMIPS)
  • Anti-aliased graphics throughout for enhanced image quality
  • 8MB inbuilt e-Flash plus Micro-SD card slot (4-32GB)
  • Smooth animations at up to 60 frames per second
  • Portrait and landscape modes supported
  • Integrated PWM audio and speaker amplifier
  • File system supporting up to 8 simultaneous file operations
  • Easy to use resistive touch
  • Minimal Arduino UNO resources used (1xSPI and 1xInterrupt)
  • Interface for camera accessory module
  • Panel mount bezel included
  • In-built super accurate RTC
  • Support MikroBUS ineterface
  • FCC/CE certified

CleO50 Documentation

CleO50 Hardware and Architecture Specifications

CleO50 Architecture

CleO50 Hardware Specifications

CleO50 and NerO

Front View

CleO50 with NerO installed

CleO50 Projects and Tutorials

An extensive range of tutorials (low level examples designed to train users on accessing all features available with CleO50) and projects (which build on the knowledge gained in the tutorials to build more complex HMIs and may require additional Arduino shields or plug in hardware, such as the CleO camera and speaker accessories) have already been created and are available on our dedicated technical support site for CleO – www.cleostuff.com. The tutorials consist of 20 chapters covering over 80 programming topics in detail, which do not require any specialist graphics or mathematics knowledge to manage.

Tutorials

  • Tutorial 1 – CleO Installation
  • Tutorial 2 – Drawing Strings
  • Tutorial 3 – Displaying Bitmaps and Icons
  • Tutorial 4 – Drawing Lines
  • Tutorial 5 – Plotting Points
  • Tutorial 6 – Drawing Circles
  • Tutorial 7 – Drawing Rectangles
  • Tutorial 8 – Drawing Needles
  • Tutorial 9 – Setting Graphics Context
  • Tutorial 10 – Screen Control
  • Tutorial 11 – Audio Primitives
  • Tutorial 12 – Video Primitives
  • Tutorial 13 – Touch Primitives
  • Tutorial 14 – CleO Utilities
  • Tutorial 15 – Device Control
  • Tutorial 16 – CleO Camera
  • Tutorial 17 – CleO File System
  • Tutorial 18 – Built-In FT81x Widgets
  • Tutorial 19 – Misc. Commands
  • Tutorial 20 – CleO Resource Utility

    • Projects

  • Project 1 – Basic Audio Sounds Demo
  • Project 2 – A DTMF Dialer
  • Project 3 – An Analog Thermometer
  • Project 4 – Retro Digital Clock (Nixie Type)
  • Project 5 – Digital Clock – 7 Segment Style Display
  • Project 6 – A Traditional Analog Clock
  • Project 7 – A Modern Style Analog Clock
  • Project 8 – An Analog Stop Watch
  • Project 9 – Setting Graphics Context
  • Project 10 – A Digital Voltmeter
  • Project 11 – An Analog Voltmeter
  • Project 12 – A Speedometer Display
  • Project 13 – Temperature, Humidity and Light Data Logger
  • Project 14 – Post-It-Note Like Scribble Message Pad
  • Project 15 – A Spectrum Analyzer Display
  • Project 16 – An ECG (Heart Rate) Display
  • Project 17 – A Digital FM Radio
  • Project 18 – A Still Photo Camera
  • Project 19 – A Video Recorders
  • Project 20 – A Rotary Display
  • Project 21 – An LED Matrix
  • Project 22 – Weather Station

    • CleO50 Utility Widgets

    CleO50 comes complete with a set of professional utility widgets which are used for data entry and can automate common tasks with just a couple of lines of code. These are:

  • Color Picker
  • Set DateTime
  • AlphaNumeric Keyboard Input
  • Numeric KeyPad Input
  • Sketch Pad Input