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1.8 inch SPI TFT ST7735 LCD Serial Port Display Module 128x160 pixels

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Well, that was a mouthful, wasn't it.  I have been on a little bit of a mission to get a further / deeper understanding of how to use TFT / LCD screens (of all sizes) from a Raspberry Pi, more specifically from a PICO and currently just using MicroPython.  I shall dip into the world of C at a later stage once it makes a bit more sense. The good news is, I had a few existing LCD screens knocking around, from what looks like back in 2013 - the bad news is after wasting about 30hours of my life, they are either just dead or they are proprietary and must have been made before standards were adopted. Whilst I had purchased a waveshare 2.8" Pico-ResTouch-LCD-2.8 (320x240) that allowed you to connect a PICO directly to the back and it had an SD-Card reader onboard, again, it was a little bit locked down - basically I couldn't find any schematics and although I could make a guess at what PINs were doing what, it didn't seem to work for me - that could be down to a lot of facto...