In case you missed it, the big news is that a minimal Arduino core ... have a cheapo ILI9341 screen that only works with an old TFTLCD library, rather than with the nice Adafruit_ILI9341 libs.

The library is intended for use with the Arduino platform ... of hardware lots of us have lying around is not a huge hassle. Adafruit provide a few application examples in the project GitHub ...