Help with your CYD (Cheap Yellow Display)
Firstly, congratulations on being the proud owner of a CYD!
Here are some links that Hobby Stuff have found to help or inspire when trying to get to grips with the CYD.
If you have any suggestions to tutorials or links which have helped you out, please do send it on to us.
Resources / Links
Below are a series of links to external websites which may be of use to you in your projects. Please note some of these links have not been verified to work with the CYD (we only have so many hours in the day available to us!).
| Website | Page / Article / Description | Tested by Hobby Stuff |
| 🤚 Hobby Stuff Customer Feedback | 📌 TFT Driver ST7789 (changed from earlier CYD version which had ILI9341). |
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Random Nerd Tutorials Search results (for all CYD articles) |
These folk are fantastic and have a very good selection of tutorials for many SBC's such as the CYD. Definitely one to bookmark! | |
| 📌 Weather Station Turn your CYD into a weatherstation of pure beauty. |
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| 📌 Image Display Guide detailing how to display an image on your CYD. |
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| 📌 ESP32 with Arduino IDE A great tutorial on how to get started with ESP32 module programming from the Arduino IDE. |
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| Like this very page you're looking at, the kind fellow behind this GitHub page has collated many, many links regarding the CYD. | ||
| 📌 Pinout Details on pins and connectors for your CYD. |
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| 📌 ESPHome Examples showing how to get the CYD to integrate with ESPHome. |
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| In addition to writing an entire book on the ESP8266, Craig has also released a couple of projects for the CYD. Truly an utter legend and all-round fantastic chap for making all his efforts available online! | ||
| 📌 CYD Bluetooth Music Player | ❌ | |
| 📌 CYD Scientific Calculator | ❌ | |
Random Nerd Tutorials
The guys over at Random Nerd Tutorials have some fantastic articles guiding on how to get the best out of your CYD. Simply visit their website and search for "CYD" to discover a treasure trove of tutorials.
From these tutorials, Hobby Stuff likes these wonderful tutorials in particular...
Weather Station
Link: https://randomnerdtutorials.com/esp32-cyd-lvgl-weather-station/
Working flawlessly, this turns the CYD into a thing of beauty! And with such a fantastic practical use, your hobby stuff is sure to start turning heads! Just be sure not to skip the section of the tutorial regarding Partition Scheme, else your uploads will fail!
Image Display
Link: https://randomnerdtutorials.com/esp32-cyd-lvgl-display-image/
If all has gone to plan, then your wonderful new CYD supplied by Hobby Stuff will have the a beautiful logo on it. As well as being part of our testing process, this demonstrates how this tutorial can put the screen to use in displaying an image.
