00:00Every Arduino maker hits the same wall, you build a menu, then you need a screen, a knob, and about
00:0540 wires.
00:06Then you find out somebody already put both on one tiny board.
00:10I went through the listings and pulled the 5 rotary encoder displays actually worth your money, sorted by the ones
00:16you should probably buy first.
00:18First one, the 2.0-inch TFT with an EC11 encoder, IIC and SPI, made for ESP32 and Raspberry Pi.
00:262-inch screen means real menus with real text, not three letters and a sad face.
00:31It's $7.65 with a 4.8 rating off 4,500 sales, and the wiring is plug-and-play, you're
00:38not soldering a rat's nest to get a knob and a screen talking.
00:42Second one is basically that same 2.0-inch TFT with the EC11, but it's $6.15 instead of $7
00:49.65, and it's rated 4.9 across almost 4,400 buyers.
00:55Same job, same interface, $1.50 back in your pocket.
00:59If you just want a big screen with a knob and don't care about brand naming, this is the one
01:04I'd click.
01:05Third is the little guy, a 1.3-inch OLED with an EC11 encoder, white or blue, straight over IIC.
01:12It's $5.73, the cheapest thing here, and it holds a perfect 5.0 rating over 4,000 sold.
01:20OLED means true blacks and it looks sharp at any angle, so for a compact menu controller on a bench
01:25project, this is tough to beat.
01:28Fourth is that same idea but flexible, you pick 1.3-inch or 0.96-inch OLED, both with the
01:34EC11 and IIC.
01:36It's $6.07 at 4.9 stars.
01:40The point is the size choice, if your enclosure is tight, grab the 0.96 and it disappears into the
01:46panel.
01:47Fewer sales, but the people who bought it clearly got what they wanted.
01:51Fifth is for when you need more real estate, 1.8 or 2.4-inch TFT with the EC11, SPI,
01:57and ST7735S or ST7789 drivers.
02:02It's $7.90 and sits at 4.9 stars.
02:07SA7789 is a chip every library already knows, so it works on the first try, and 2.4-inch is
02:13the biggest screen on this list, good for graphs, not just labels.
02:17All 5 links are in the description, sorted cheapest to biggest screen.
02:21Grab the one that matches your enclosure and stop hand-wiring knobs.
02:26If this saved you a scroll, hit like and subscribe, I dig through these listings every week so you don't
02:31have to.
