04-14-2018, 05:43 PM
(04-11-2018, 11:08 AM)rollinhand Wrote:(04-10-2018, 01:11 PM)JST1963 Wrote:(04-10-2018, 10:53 AM)rollinhand Wrote:
Cool... Love the display
Can you give some more info about it (type, how you control it....)
Johan
Sure, the display is a standard one like this on ebay:
ebay link
It is configured in 4 wire SPI.
There is a smoked black acrylic insert glued into the metal as well. Sadly done by a local company here who are pretty good. I can share the design docs if it helps? Or get them made and send out if it helps, they fit really well.
I just call a python script I wrote (not great but it works, you need lots of text stripping etc) from the Moode interface.
I will post some more/better details when I am home this weekend like the wiring etc. You need to move a 0 ohm resistor too so I do not know how good your soldering skills are?
I want to improve it though, there is no scrolling text for instance which can be annoying and I want more control. I am going to try and use a different python library next to see if I can improve things. Happy to share the code though in the meantime.
It will be excellent if you can open up a thread for how to Enable that OLed display so that you can go on adding things to that as and when you improve your setup. Of course all at your leisure.