Arduino shield tft to Teensy

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harleybussell

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Hi,

I'm just starting out with a Teensy 3.6 and trying to find a good way to connect this Adafruit tft shield.
https://www.adafruit.com/product/1947

Still prototyping so want to hook it up to my breadboarded teensy. Would it be good to solder hookup wire from the male headers of the shield and connect those to the breadboard?
Or should I look for teensy to arduino shield board similar to https://www.sparkfun.com/products/13288?
Is there a common way people connect shields to the teensy?

Any advice would be really appreciated.
Thanks!
 
The Sparkfun shield is only suitable for the Teensy 3.1/2. The downside of trying to use an AVR targeted shield is that you'll need to supply 5 volts unless you want to start removing parts and/or jumpering around the boards exsisting voltage regulators.

If I needed to connect a Teensy and that board together, I'd look at using female to female "DuPont Jumpers" commonly found on eBay, Sparkfun and Adafruit. I'd use the 100mm length wires wherever possible.

Lastly, you probably want to abandon the Adafruit library, at least for the display, and use the Teensy specific ILI9341 SPI TFT LCD library found in the Teensy example program listings in the IDE. You can find lots of relevant info here:
https://www.pjrc.com/store/display_ili9341_touch.html
 
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