OLED Displays with Arduino - I2C & SPI OLEDs

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You may have read somewhere that changing camera position keeps a video interesting, but I'd suggest that it is interesting because of your content. May have said that the two camera switching thing is a bad idea, and I agree if you switch without it having a meaning. If you need to switch, put a graphic or closeup. Switching between cameras can be used to tell the audience that you've got a side note to add for example, but switching for the sake of it tells them nothing. Camera angle is as much a part of your visual communication as you actual presentation. That said, thanks for the information. Very informative.

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@@verickfin9024 Me too. I can also see some unnecessary special effects creeping in to the vids too.

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Same thoughts here. Use two cameras only when there is an actual need. Otherwise, very good video.

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I actually liked the camera switching. Maybe I'm weird.

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[@jlucasound]

You are awesome. I learned a lot. Your delivery is exemplary. Your knowledge is paramount. Thank You. I am 56. Just ordered more (MM) jumpers and an AM2320 sensor AND an AM2302 sensor module. I have Arduino, breadboards, OLED displays, and power. Thank you for explaining the code so well. You make no assumptions as to how much any individual knows. I would rather say "already know that" than "Oh, what did I miss?". Thanks.

[@Giblet535]

SPI is a bus protocol. You don't need two SPI ports to run two displays. It's possible to run lots of SPI displays from an Arduino, as long as the display has a CS connection, you have a free GPIO pin to select the display, and the display library differentiates display objects by the CS pin value you defined. They can even be different display types with different clock (SCK) speeds and resolutions. On the 32 bit boards e.g., Teensy, it's possible to animate as many as four 320x200 displays, separately, at the same time with acceptable results, using one SPI port.

[@davidzatica408]

Surely you cant use the same SPI port as SPI is synchronous, and will relay the same information from it’s MOSI pin to every peripheral with the chip select set to low? If you wanted to send different information to different screens at the same time, wouldn’t you then need different SPI ports? Also I doubt you can have different clock speeds if every peripheral shares the same clock connection. I’m still new to electronics so correct me if I’m wrong haha

[@TheBozn]

​​@@davidzatica408I don't get your argument. Both protocols has one bus and communicate with one slave at a time(or same data t multiple slaves), but since spi has 2 data lines you can shift in and out parallell, and it can work with a much much faster clock speed(4-8MHz vs 400khz on atmega328p@16mhz). You'd get much better performance using spi for multiple displays than I2c. Basically, the only pro I2C has is less cables and "easier to program". But the performance you can get on a display via spi is a >magnitude that of i2c.

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[@francoisguyot9770]

I'm getting addicted to your channel. My "LED's" up there have been blinking like crazy since I tuned into it. What a nice way to "waste" my retirement time (and money)

[@escobar64]

I wish to you lots of money to continue doing this ;)

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Take a shot when the camera angle changes. Good times!

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I died.

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@@gkess7106 Same

[@celracing4425]

Hi Bill, nice to find your site. I too was struggling to unpack Adafruit's example for a SSD1306 driven OLED. Its very comprehensive, making it a bit complex for someone just starting. I used your example as a starting point and I'm integrating Adafruit's elaborations one at a time to understand them better. First time I've been able to get one working for my uses. I kept going back to their example originally just to see I had the hardware working, but was having a tough time modifying it without blowing up the sketch. Finding your example helped me to see how to drive it effectively. I do have to mention that I think your example seems to have one extra " void setup() { ". It seemed odd, so I commented it out, everything worked as expected. Thanks for the help.

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I enjoyed the instructional video and I am so thankful that you do not have background music. So many presenter’s videos have stupid background music that detracts from the information. You cannot always tell when they are going to play the music so I miss some of the talking after I mute the sound. If I want to listen to music I have my own library. Thanks again for the great video and no music.

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[@alejandroperez5368]

Shut the hell up, man. He has to do what he feels like doing. Also, changing camera views prevents OLED burn-in when viewing long videos like this one.

[@Reptex_cs]

Cool that you use it for temperature and RH, which is exactly what I will use it for. This guide couldn't have suited me better.

[@JosephStates]

Thank you for your command of the English language! Thank you for showing every step! Today is my first day diving in with a nano as I have put it off learning about adrino for months. Now I must get educated to move forward on an invention my wife came up with. I lost a lot of time trying to understand the other guys' videos. I am hoping to get enough info from your videos to not have to watch the others. So thankful!

[@stuartofblyth]

Another interesting video. I was presented with an OLED driven by an ESP8266 by my No. 2 Son, and it displayed a suitable Father's Day message. I transferred the components to a breadboard whereupon it stopped working. Thinking I'd blown up the OLED (they're unforgivably polarity-sensitive, apparently) I bought a second one and plugged it into the breadboard. Again, it didn't work. Investigation showed that the pin connections to the two OLEDS were different, so this may be worth bearing in mind - different manufacturers may use different pin arrangements. I thought I'd blown up this second one, too, because of the wrong connections, but closer examination revealed that the negative jumper lead from the ESP8266 to the OLED was open circuit! When this was replaced both displays worked fine. So two lessons learned - always check the pinouts, and don't assume the complicated stuff will fail and overlook basic troubleshooting techniques.

[@stevealdrich2472]

Thanks Drone Bot! My 128 x 64 OLED showed 0x78 on the chip as the address. I tried lots of values and options. Finally I tried 0x3C from your 128 x 64 display section and it worked! Viewers, the chip I bought that clearly showed addresses 78 and 7A on the back is the IZOKEE .96" 128 x 64. A startingelectronics.org site mentions this issue, so it apparently isn't exclusively this brand that has this exasperating goof.

[@mladinaucnik]

Helped me also, mine are 7B and 7A, and worked with 3C

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[@stevetobias4890]

Thanks for another great video. I am loving your tutorials as I am a fresh newbie to the Arduino world. Just bought my starter kit and a 45 set of sensors and now just ordered a few different OLED displays. Again thanks for your time teacher. 👨‍🎓

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Look at you! Shifting from camera to the other! Dedication! YESSS!!! Keep up the good, fella!

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[@opalprestonshirley1700]

Finally have a good understanding of the OLED's. Many thanks.

[@edcottingham1]

I ~love~ your videos! They are great and have really gotten me in the boat with Arduino. One suggestion on production values: You really need your camera aimed straight-on or slightly downward at you face without you lifting your chin.. Not an expert, but you seem to tilt your head back to try to look squarely into the camera. What happens is that the camera seems to be pointed at your Adam's apple. No matter how. pretty one is, no one can escape the reality that this the is the way old movies photographed villains! You're not a villain; you're the hero of the DroneBot Workshop! More like Captain Marvel!

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[@audreyflores243]

Thank you for providing this video. It was extremely informative and it helped me tremendously.

[@johnminners4840]

Thanks for the challenge. I used my DHT11 sensor and a small OLED to emulate your results. I had to do a lot of copying and pasting snippets of code from here and there along with a little bit of stuff I stole from this tutorial to make it work. My little OLED prints Temperature in Fahrenheit, as well as Celsius and Humidity. The DHT11 isn't the fastest or the most accurate but it does the job. BTW it took me TWO full days of frustration :). Thanks again for keeping me on my toes. It is much appreciated.

[@toniholpers4694]

Thank you for an very educational video (again) I am a Newbie and trying to understand the Arduino electronics and I can't express how well you are helping with your nice and understandable videos THANK YOU

[@mrbourdet]

Well done. Thank you Bill. I was hoping for RGB OLED.

[@warrenking970]

thank you very much for this tutorial , It helped clear up my problem. I was sending data to the display and not getting the results displaied. I checked out your video and found my problem in the first half of the example, thanks again!

[@raybonz7939]

Excellent, informative, clear and concise video! Thanks!

[@mkepler5861]

thanks Bill, that was a great video tutorial, I gotta buy some oleds a try them out. thanks for the fantastic instructions mike

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Great vids ya got. Put me in the camp of "change angles, but less frequent". Other than that, I think you are one of the best on KZbin for beginners to intermediate folks. Keep up the great work.

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Paul McWhorter is amazing too when you're new. He uses readily available kits. This channel is a good "get familiar with" channel. A tip. Don't watch mailbag videos, they just make you surf the web and not learn hahha. I'm onto buying bench gear, I could've had a sports car for my bench gear addiction. Haha

[@bernym4047]

As usual, a very clearly explained tutorial. Many thanks.

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[@johnbrandolini2915]

I've got several Arduino modules I've been shamelessly neglecting including one that uses the AD9850 DDS. The DDS will generate a stable sine wave up to 30 MHZ and my goal was to create a cheap bench top frequency standard for amateur use. Btw, I am a licensed radio amateur call N1ABE. Anyway creating the standard was a piece of cake. The DDS was an I2C device so the code was trivial. I had entertained the idea of writing a python script to control it but that meant you'd need a PC to use it and I wanted something stand alone. So the question was how to make it compact and not cost a fortune and also come up with a design someone other than me could build. Your tutorial was extremely helpful in explaining how to interface an OLED display to my project. Believe it or not I was able to get a 128x64 .96" I2C monochrome display for $3. One of your other tutorials showed how to implement switches in a resistive ladder configuration which was brilliant. However, I will make my own network since it is a really simple design. I'm an EE by trade but am no stranger to coding and find the sketch walk throughs very helpful. I do have to agree with a lot of the comments that the constant switching of the camera angle is distracting and annoying.

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[@irgski]

Very good, basic edu video! Good job as always. I noticed that, for the AM2320 sensor you don’t have to worry about the I2C address…unless it conflicts with the display address.

[@BobWiersema]

Thanks for the help with OLD's. I know this is a older video but I'm new to Arduino.

[@Nickjustdabs]

Man you’re GOOD!!! Where you an instructor at anytime in ur life? Better then many😅 you don’t over explain anything that’s my issue I start trying to go to deep after that cuz it seems like there more to it but ur straight to the point the rest is for chat GPT😂😂

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Some of the best explained material iv seen on KZbin for a long time, and that's before i realised, the best channel to learn Arduino, Thanks for the content

[@Billingtano]

I can see the matrix now. I am the One. Thanks for the great tutorial!

[@johnfrankforther8162]

Excellent tutorial on OLEDs as a friend and I are just starting to investigate their usage! Lots of great information. Thank you.

[@OtherDalfite]

Wow, that bit map bit blew my mind. Great video, thank you!

[@jadeotter3328]

LOOKING ARDUINO MAKES ME HAPPY. OLEDs are cool.

[@muslimhater2621]

This guys workshop is WAY too organized and clean. but vide is very complete and concise. Well done !

[@jamest.5001]

I wish I got into this 25 years ago, learning was so much easier then! Great info!.

[@puneethkumar703]

hi there, You can find good 🤖 Arduino projects 🤖 here: wokwi.com/arduino/libraries/SSD1306Ascii I hope you will find this link and examples - from Wokwi Arduino Simulator here: 👉wokwi.com You can play with the Arduino simulations for the OLED Displays

[@TheRainHarvester]

I've started to use the Nokia 5110 because it's big size and easy to read in daylight, and runs on very little power...and cheap! I might even put two into one project!

[@TheRainHarvester]

Oh I forgot why I posted...the oleds look very nice and grab your attention, so I've been very tempted to get one of the smaller ones. Just not sure if my eyes could read it! Lol

[@chrisw1462]

@@TheRainHarvester OLEDs are much higher contrast than LCDs, especially reflective LCDs like the Nokia. You don't have to use the small fonts that he did, either. You should have no problems seeing them if you can read the Nokia display. They're getting pretty cheap - get a small one and test it out!

[@ajayakumarvv3010]

Very nice presentation , very knowledgeable person and also a great teacher, super

[@namero999]

Another amazing video Bill! Your videos are the ones I look the most forward to in my recommendations. Have you ever worked with EEG sensors?

[@andiatbaden9990]

Very helpfull Video, thank you. The only thing that disturbs is the Camera switching.

[@torfinnsrnes6232]

I have used a few of these oled displays, and it is worth noting that they can suffer from burn in.

[@upir_upir]

This is great video, thank you for putting time and effort into creating those!

[@kresimircoric2503]

Once more, excellent video. Greetings from Croatia !

[@GeorgeWMays]

Excellent video. You Sir, do an excellent job at this. Thanks a bunch. It's appreciated.

[@midlandernc7403]

Your the best man. Clear concise plain and simple. Informative not just do this. Very professional. I like it better and get more out of it than I do Adafruit and some of their stuff. Don't get me wrong their great, your tutorials though are the absolute best. Do you have a DVD of all the lessons with maybe some bonus content. I would really like to purchase it if you do. I'm definitely going to get the I love Arduino tee. Thanks and I hope you come back and do more I thought you were just starting to catch on with the maker community and us newbie's.

[@dave_dennis]

I would recommend ALWAYS having a pull up resistor on I2C lines. It is an active low type of protocol so a good pullup will make it more immune to noise on the I2C lines.

[@markc9871]

Yes, depends though. As they are built right into a lot of sensors now.

[@Paddy_Roche]

Brilliant, thank you so much. I’m so glad I found this excellent channel.

[@winstonhale4674]

I like the camera angles switching, like reading different paragraphs on a page full of text

[@spikekent]

Just found this superb video, thank you. I've just built an OctoPi monitor using an OLED display and D1 mini. Since I ordered a few of them, I was wondering what else to do. Now I have a better understanding of how to do, whatever I decide on. Now I'm off to see what other videos you have 👍

[@myplasticbricks2239]

Z Great video! Looking forward to the next chapter.... Color OLEDS. I really like your history and explanation of the item before you get into the demo. Keep it up!

[@andymouse]

A fantastic "all round" tutorial...cheers.

[@warrenking1815]

Excellent job working out the details, as usual. Needed a start point to work with this type of display. Thanks for a another great lesson.

[@zwurltech9047]

Great information, thank you!

[@simonbancroft8579]

Excellent video, thank you. A heads up to anyone using a DHT11 temperature sensor, it does not use I2C, it needs its own digital pin for data.

[@johneagle4384]

I only wish my college instructors were like you.

[@rameshchadrapatel3448]

You are better them college professors!! Explaining the new technology how it works.

[@vonries]

I'm not sure how many times I have watched this video. All of your videos are great reference material. After watching again this time I noticed two things. 1) the long thin display does not appear to be using the full height of the unit. 2) the CJMCU-9548 allows you to display different data to the same i2c address just as if they each had different addresses. I think this unit came out awhile after you made this video though.

[@vonries]

I guess I was thinking of one of your other great videos as this one just came out.

[@MrBobWareham]

I really love your channel and the way you explain every little detail and your diagrams are awesome so thank you so much for all your hard work but one thing I don't understand is this flipping from one camera to the other camera can your cameraman stand still so you look at one camera, please Thanks Bob in the UK

[@kristofferchristensen232]

Thanks Bill. Very interesting video. Excellent way to explain "how to".

[@cw4608]

I do see the star, very interesting. Thank you for the excellent explanation of how OLEDs work.

[@puneethkumar703]

hi there, You can find good 🤖 Arduino projects 🤖 here: wokwi.com/arduino/libraries/SSD1306Ascii I hope you will find this link and examples - from Wokwi Arduino Simulator here: 👉wokwi.com Play with the simulations as much as you want, for free :)

[@captainpugwash4100]

Great timing, thanks! I have couple of these OLEDs on order, and expecting them to arrive in the next couple of days, so I needed a quick refresher.

[@alexgonzalez2338]

These videos are so professional. Thanks so much

[@thenextension9160]

Really enjoyed the primer and history.

[@AlienWacker]

19:15 ... Other than the lack of color, I was almost expecting the "Captain Marvel" logo (a-la the end of Avengers Infinity War) to show up on that tiny display... Thank you for this, and other, wonderful videos... I have already subscribed, and I am looking forward to understanding my Arduino projects more as I watch you!

[@joelh1880]

Great video. Perfect working room. So cool!

[@goodduck4]

Helped a lot with my project, thanks!

[@raymondmichael4987]

Nothing to add, other than "thanks for your wonderful work". Please can you shade light on interrupt in arduino!? I would like to make something involving timers but i heard delay() are nightmare, please advice, with your way of explaining things I'll gain a lot. Greetings from Tanzania 🇹🇿

[@MoritzSiestrup]

Just want to appriciate the quality of this Video

[@NickCornaglia]

Thanks for the video. Enjoyed the history segment and learned a bit about I2C as well.

[@luansalja60]

Allways great videos !!! Maximum Respect !!! i learn so much and so easy to understand ...

[@midlandernc7403]

I say it's just fine. And your the best by far. Thanks you make it simple. I believe prototyping is the best way to learn c, c++ and assembly. That leading to higher languages.

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Friend excellent channel, very clear, professional and detailed explanations. I only have an intermediate level of English but its clarity when speaking slowly makes it easy to understand. I will see all your videos with their respective likes and subscription !!! Greetings and thank you very much.

[@acestudioscouk-Ace-G0ACE]

I learnt a lot with this video, thank-you Bill!

[@KarimBab]

I love the way you talk