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PeterB
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Joined: 05/02/2015
Location: Australia
Posts: 668
Posted: 01:50am 20 May 2026
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G'day All
To help me through this winter I bought a 5 in touch screen with ESP32-S3-WROOM chip attached. Using available documentation, I have managed to get HELLO WORLD running and that is as far as it goes. Where is the documentation that lets me draw on the 5 in screen?
Up to now I have used the PIC32MX470F with a 7 in screen so this is all a bit new to me.
I should also point out that I am 88.5 and sinking fast so please be gentle.  
Peter.
 
RonnS
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Joined: 16/07/2015
Location: Germany
Posts: 123
Posted: 02:08am 20 May 2026
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Hello Peter, to support the ESP32 board, I can recommend the Annex Rapid Development System (Annex RDS). With it, you can quickly program your board in Basic, and many screens are also supported. You will also be able to meet a helpful fellow countryman there.
The  ESP32  isnt  Supported  by  MMBasic as far as this is concerned
 
PhenixRising
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Joined: 07/11/2023
Location: United Kingdom
Posts: 1902
Posted: 07:19am 20 May 2026
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I have the 7" version. Those things are really nice because they have the more resilient capacitive touch screen.

Code for pretty much anything already exists.

I experimented by writing some code in MMBasic, giving it to Google Gemini and asking it to convert to Arduino. It worked after I discovered that it was trying to use an out-of-date library.  
 
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