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Waveshare ESP32-S3-Touch-AMOLED-1.8

1.8" 368x448 AMOLED (SH8601, QSPI), FT3168 touch, ES8311 speaker and microphone, TF card, QMI8658C, 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 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	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-S3 Xtensa LX7 dual-core @ 240 MHz, 512 KB SRAM (+ 2-16 MB PSRAM on most modules)
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, 8 MB octal PSRAM (N16R8)
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 11
D0 - D3	GPIO 4, 5, 6, 7
CS	GPIO 12
RESET	TCA9554 pin 0

Touch pins

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

Signal	Pin
SDA	GPIO 15
SCL	GPIO 14
INT / IRQ	GPIO 21
RESET	TCA9554 pin 2

Also on the board

I2C (GPIO 15 / 14) - SDA GPIO 15, SCL GPIO 14
TCA9554 I/O expander at 0x20, driving the lines marked above
IMU - QMI8658, at 0x6B, on I2C (GPIO 15 / 14)
RTC - PCF85063, at 0x51, on I2C (GPIO 15 / 14)
PMIC - AXP2101, at 0x34, on I2C (GPIO 15 / 14)
SDCard - SD card, CLK GPIO 2, CMD GPIO 1, D0 GPIO 3
TCA9554 pin 1 is set high at boot - AMOLED power enable
TCA9554 pin 7 is set high at boot - TF slot CD/DAT3
BOOTButton - input on GPIO 0

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-S3-Touch-AMOLED-1.8). This is the V1 revision (SH8601 panel, FT3168 touch), discontinued; boards shipped from 30 May 2026 are V2 (CO5300, CST820, 16-column offset) on the same pins and need the -v2 record - check the label on the back. Every pin recorded here is the same in the vendor's code and on the schematic; the disagreements are inside the vendor's code. The glass has rounded corners of radius 55 px: Waveshare gives none, and it was measured on the owner's V2 board (2026-10-22) with rings drawn at 50 to 60 px, 54 cut short at the corners and 56 clear inside them; this V1 preset takes the V2's measurement, the glass outline being the same. 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-S3-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.
With PSRAM the LVGL memory pool can live there, leaving internal RAM for everything else.
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-S3. The only common Arduino target with a hardware RGB565 LCD peripheral. PSRAM is effectively required for RGB panels.

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
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Troubleshooting - a white screen, mirrored image or touch that misses