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Waveshare ESP32-C6-Touch-AMOLED-1.8

1.8" 368x448 AMOLED (SH8601, QSPI), FT3168 touch, ES8311 speaker and microphone, QMI8658A, PCF85063ATL, AXP2101.

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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 two 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	The MicroPython export drives a quad SPI panel on the ESP32-S3 only so far.
ESPHome	ESPHome has no driver for this controller.
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	Waveshare
MCU	ESP32-C6 RISC-V @ 160 MHz, 512 KB SRAM (no PSRAM)
Display	Sinowealth SH8601, 368 x 448 px, QSPI (quad SPI), 16-bit colour
Touch	FocalTech FT3168 / FT6146 (capacitive, I2C)
Backlight	None: the panel is its own light, dimmed by a command
Memory	16 MB flash, no PSRAM (N16)
Graphics library	GFX Library for Arduino

Display pins

SH8601 on QSPI (quad SPI): QSPI clock 40 MHz, host SPI2_HOST, RGB colour order, inversion off.

Signal	Pin
SCK	GPIO 0
D0 - D3	GPIO 1, 2, 3, 4
CS	GPIO 5
RESET	TCA9554 pin 4

Touch pins

FT3168 / FT6146: I2C address 0x38, 400 kHz, shares the display bus.

Signal	Pin
SDA	GPIO 8
SCL	GPIO 7
INT / IRQ	GPIO 15
RESET	TCA9554 pin 5

Also on the board

I2C (GPIO 8 / 7) - SDA GPIO 8, SCL GPIO 7
TCA9554 I/O expander at 0x20, driving the lines marked above
IMU - QMI8658, at 0x6B, on I2C (GPIO 8 / 7)
RTC - PCF85063, at 0x51, on I2C (GPIO 8 / 7)
PMIC - AXP2101, at 0x34, on I2C (GPIO 8 / 7)
BOOTButton - input on GPIO 9

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

Check your revision. Pins from Waveshare's demo code and schematic (https://github.com/waveshareteam/ESP32-C6-Touch-AMOLED-1.8). This is the V1 revision (SH8601 panel, FT3168 touch, no offset); a V2 board (CO5300, CST820, 16-column offset) has the same pins and needs the -v2 record - the vendor tells them apart by which touch address answers, 0x38 or 0x15. Every pin recorded here is the same in the vendor's code and on the schematic. The glass has rounded corners of radius 55 px: Waveshare gives none, and this is the measurement from the owner's ESP32-S3-Touch-AMOLED-1.8 V2 (2026-10-22), the same 1.8 inch 368 x 448 AMOLED (SH8601 on V1, CO5300 with the same 16-column gap on V2); not measured on a C6 board. On the board and not in this preset: TF card: this chip has one SPI controller and the panel has it (Waveshare's own code runs one or the other). Brightness is a command to the panel, not a backlight pin. Compiled; not run on a board here.

Designing for it in LCD Wizard

Choose Waveshare ESP32-C6-Touch-AMOLED-1.8 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 GFX Library for Arduino configuration, lv_conf.h and platformio.ini - a project that builds for this board as it comes.
The FT3168 / FT6146 is capacitive and needs no calibration. The firmware resets it and checks it answers on every boot.
The panel has no backlight pin: it is its own light, and its brightness is a command. Give a slider or a button a Set backlight action and it dims as a backlight would.
Screens are designed for 368 x 448 px in either orientation, with LVGL 9 or LVGL 8.

The parts

SH8601. AMOLED controller with per-panel brightness commands instead of a backlight pin. Waveshare's first 1.8" boards.

FT3168 / FT6146. Waveshare's AMOLED boards (1.43", 1.64", 1.8", 1.91", 2.06").

ESP32-C6. No PSRAM. SPI displays only in practice.

GFX Library for Arduino. Moshi Liu's library. Best QSPI/AMOLED and RGB coverage. Configured in code.

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.

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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

Nobody has published a design for this board yet. Publish yours from the designer and it appears here and 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