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M5Stack Core2 (v1.0, AXP192)

2.0" 320x240 ILI9342C with FT6336U touch. The first Core2: its panel's supply, reset and backlight are the AXP192's.

The M5Stack Core2 board — Photograph: M5Stack · vendor product photo, no licence stated

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Building for it

A project is made for one toolchain, picked when you start it. For this board you can use three of the four:

Toolchain
Arduino (C++)	Every board, every widget and every peripheral here. The most control, and the most to set up. Start a project
MicroPython	Change a screen by editing a file on the board. No compiler once it is flashed. Start a project
ESPHome	A line it sets before the panel is Power LDO2, a supply of its power chip. A panel reset, or a line set before the panel, that is a supply of the power chip is switched by the Arduino, ESP-IDF and MicroPython exports; ESPHome has no component for the AXP2101 or the AXP192, so nothing would switch it and the panel would stay in reset. Use the Arduino, ESP-IDF or MicroPython export.
ESP-IDF (C)	Espressif's own framework: esp_lcd, the component registry and idf.py, with nothing of Arduino in it. Start a project

At a glance

Part	Detail
Maker	M5Stack
MCU	ESP32 (WROOM / WROVER) Xtensa LX6 dual-core @ 240 MHz, 520 KB SRAM (+ up to 8 MB PSRAM on WROVER)
Display	Ilitek ILI9342 / ILI9342C, 320 x 240 px, SPI (4-wire serial), 16-bit colour
Touch	FocalTech FT6236 / FT6336U (capacitive, I2C)
Backlight	Always on, or controlled by the board
Memory	16 MB flash, 8 MB quad PSRAM (N16R8)
Graphics library	LovyanGFX

Display pins

ILI9342 / ILI9342C on SPI (4-wire serial): SPI clock 40 MHz, host VSPI, BGR colour order, inversion on.

Signal	Pin
SCK / CLK	GPIO 18
MOSI / SDA	GPIO 23
MISO / SDO	GPIO 38
CS	GPIO 5
DC / RS	GPIO 15
RESET	Power GPIO4 (power chip supply)

Touch pins

FT6236 / FT6336U: I2C address 0x38, 400 kHz, shares the display bus.

Signal	Pin
SDA	GPIO 21
SCL	GPIO 22
INT / IRQ	GPIO 39
RESET	not connected

Also on the board

Internal I2C (GPIO 21 / 22) - SDA GPIO 21, SCL GPIO 22
Port A (Grove, GPIO 32 / 33) - SDA GPIO 32, SCL GPIO 33
SPI (TF card, shared with the panel) - SCK GPIO 18, MOSI GPIO 23, MISO GPIO 38
Power - AXP192, at 0x34, on Internal I2C (GPIO 21 / 22)
The panel's supply (LDO2), its reset (GPIO4), the backlight (DCDC3) and the speaker amplifier's enable (GPIO2) are this chip's: it is started before the panel.
SDCard - SD card, on SPI (TF card, shared with the panel), CS GPIO 4 (arrives switched off in a new design)
The TF card slot, on the panel's SPI pins (18 / 23 / 38) with CS 4, powered by LDO2 with the panel. Switched off as it arrives: switch it on to use a card.
Power LDO2 (power chip supply) is set high at boot - Panel and SD card supply (LDO2, 3.3 V)
Power DC3 (power chip supply) is set high at boot - Backlight (DCDC3)

The preset adds these to the Hardware tab with the board, so a sensor can go straight onto the connector.

Check your revision. This is the first Core2 (v1.0), with an AXP192 power chip; a Core2 v1.1 has an AXP2101 - choose the v1.1 preset for that one (the chip's id says which: 0x03 at register 0x03 is an AXP192, 0x4A an AXP2101). The panel's supply, reset and backlight are driven through the AXP192 as M5Stack's own start-up drives them; the backlight is on and does not dim. MicroPython starts the chip before the panel too, on the touch panel I2C bus; ESPHome has no component for it and is not offered. The speaker (an NS4168 on I2S: BCLK 12, LRCK 0, DATA 2, enabled through the AXP192's GPIO2, held off until the player starts) and the TF card (CS 4, on the panel's SPI pins) come with it, switched off, as M5Stack's M5Unified has them; the MicroPython export has neither (it has no audio player, and cannot share the panel's SPI pins with the card). Compiled; not seen on a panel by LCD Wizard.

Designing for it in LCD Wizard

Choose M5Stack Core2 (v1.0, AXP192) on the Hardware tab (or use the button above) and every pin on this page is filled in. The export writes the sketch, lcd_pins.h, the LovyanGFX configuration, lv_conf.h and platformio.ini - a project that builds for this board as it comes.
The FT6236 / FT6336U is capacitive and needs no calibration. The firmware resets it and checks it answers on every boot.
With PSRAM the LVGL memory pool can live there, leaving internal RAM for everything else.
Screens are designed for 320 x 240 px in either orientation, with LVGL 9 or LVGL 8.

The parts

ILI9342 / ILI9342C. Landscape-native sibling of the ILI9341. Used by M5Stack Core / Core2.

FT6236 / FT6336U. Register-compatible with the FT6206. Very common on 2.8"-3.5" capacitive TFTs.

ESP32 (WROOM / WROVER). No native RGB parallel peripheral - use SPI or an 8/16-bit i80 bus.

LovyanGFX. Widest panel and bus coverage, DMA on ESP32. Configured with a C++ config class.

The pinout on one page

Every pin above, laid out to print and keep beside the bench. Generated from this preset, so it says exactly what the designer writes into lcd_pins.h.

Download the pinout (PNG)Open it as SVG

The same pins as data - board.json and pins.csv - are in the open pinout dataset on GitHub, free to reuse under CC BY 4.0.

From the people who made it

The board’s own documentation. Pinouts on vendor pages do sometimes disagree with the hardware in front of you - where this page and that one differ, trust your board and tell us.

Designs for this board

Espresso Shot TimerNo sensors. The board is the whole of it. A shot is twenty-five to thirty seconds, and what you want is a numb...by jonathan harrocks

Clone any of them into the designer, or see every design for this board in the gallery.

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Quick start - from an empty screen to firmware on the board
Boards and displays - presets, controllers, pins and touch in the designer
Flashing and configuration - PlatformIO, the Arduino IDE and first-boot checks
Troubleshooting - a white screen, mirrored image or touch that misses