Micro controller based photo frame with TFT LCD

The objective of the project is to create a homemade photo frame using ARM7

LPC2148 microcontroller with the display on TFT LCD display.

Now a day’s so many useful technologies are coming out to make our life style more comfort,
luxurious and secure. With advancements in technologies now we are able to design more user
friendly systems with low cost.

Now a day’s users expecting smart products with more innovation, creativity, user friendly and
security, etc. So in this project we are designing a system to display effective pleasant, and
occasional based images based on our interest these images are displayed on the TFT LCD for
more clarity of the picture.

With present photo frames we can only display single image and if you want change that image
then we need to take print of another photo then we need to fix it in that. But with our digital
photo frame we can change multiple images on time based or whenever we want we can replace
new images based on our interest or special occasion like birthday, marriage day, etc.

The major components used in the project are TFT 3.2” 240×320 pixel 16-bit color LCD and
ARM7 based LPC2148 32 bit micro controller. We will store the images binary data in micro
controller memory and send this data to TFT LCD through TFT LCD data lines and control
lines.

TFT LCD (Thin film transistor liquid crystal display) is a variant of liquid crystal
display (LCD) which uses thin-film transistor (TFT) technology to improve image qualities such
as addressability and contrast. TFT LCD is an active matrix LCD, in contrast to passive
matrix LCDs or simple, direct-driven LCDs with a few segments.

The NXP (founded by Philips) LPC2148 is an ARM7TDMI-S based high-performance 32-bit

RISC Microcontroller with Thumb extensions 512KB on-chip Flash ROM with In-System
Programming (ISP), 32KB RAM, Two UARTs, Two I2C serial interfaces, Two SPI serial
interfaces Two 32-bit timers, Real Time Clock with optional battery backup.
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Software Tools:

 KEIL IDE for developing micro controller code

 ORCAD for designing schematics
 FLASH MAGIC for dumping the hex file into controller

Hardware Tools:

 ARM7 based LPC2148 Micro controller.

 TFT LCD.
 Regulated +3.3v and +5v Power supply.

Advantages:

 No need of take print of photos

 Easy to use
 Effective and attractive display system
 Multiple images can be displayed

Applications:

 Offices
 Homes and colleges
 Shops and busses for advertising displays