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As an introduction to Arduino, I decided to get the Adafruit 2.8" TFT Touch Shield which was an excellent purchase. Hint hint, go buy one if you haven't already:

http://www.adafruit.com/products/376

https://github.com/adafruit/TFTLCD-Library

It was extremely easy to get up and running. Pop the shield onto my UNO R3, modify a line in the header, and load the sketch; less than three minutes. After doing so, I noticed that everything was pretty slow compared to what I thought it could be. Hence, I took the existing driver with the intention of making it faster, and ended up rewriting most of it as I learned more and more.

Things I learned:

Old Driver vs New Driver

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Performance gain (54.2% to 82.8% faster per test operation for graphicstest.ino):

Speed Differences

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