Reader [Jasper] writes in with glowing praise for the TFT ... an LCD screen with an ESP8266 and Arduino, check this out for sure. As a testbed, [Jasper] ported his Tick Tock Timer project over ...

Even when using a standard Arduino, there are still speed and efficiency gains to be made when driving a TFT. [Xark] recently released his re-mix of the Adafruit GFX library and LCD drivers.