“Dear friends welcome to another Instructable! This is Nick from educ8s.tv and today we are going to build this small but impressive digital photo frame using an Arduino.
I am using the 1.8” color ST7735 TFT display a lot. The reason for that is that this display is very easy to use, it costs less than $5 and it offers color! At the back, the display has an SD card slot, so I thought that we have to learn how to use that as well. As it turned out, it is really easy to use the SD card slot on the display! That makes this display even better.
The project that we are going to build today is this. A simple photo frame which loads images from the SD card. I have placed some .bmp images on the SD card and the project loads them and displays them at the display in full color! As you can see the speed of the project is very high if we take into consideration that the brains of this project are the old and slow Arduino Nano. In my opinion, this is really impressive. But lets now see how to build this project.”