Adafruit/SainSmart 1.8" TFT LCD display for Raspberry Pi

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Adafruit/SainSmart 1.8

I've been experimenting with tiny 1.8" TFT LCD display modules from Adafruit and SainSmart as displays for the Raspberry Pi. After a good bit of Linux kernel hacking on a driver for the ST7735R LCD controller chip, I got them to run as as the Pi's console device. Video demos of the whole thing in action:     Photos of standard framebuffer apps running on the display: fbterm in a couple of font sizes, and mplayer playing a video clip...

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