Arduino Tutorial: Color OLED SSD1331 display with Arduino Uno from Banggood.com

[@yuudai1400]

I want to make displays for things I need around the house, like a clock or weather station. Much cooler than buying one, you make and program your own! Great work, and thank you for guiding us through the process

[@samuelstuff4557]

just bought three of these; can't wait to test them out!

[@johnellerington2676]

Great intro to these small screens, but a note of caution - they are extremely delicate, the top glass is very thin and easily broken at the corners, which wrecks the display. If you buy from Ebay, they are cheap but shipped from China, some get damaged during shipping, so always test them on arrival. If they work OK, strengthen them up by running clear 2-part epoxy resin around the edges so that the corners are supported.

[@antongrobbelaar8040]

Thanks so much for clarifying the pin connections on this OLED. I was searching everywhere and thanks to your explanation, I got it working. Really appreciate it, it probably saved me days.

[@samuelstuff4557]

If you don’t want to wait a couple months I would recommend picking this up from amazon

[@legoleaderRyman]

you should use this screen to make a small smart watch with an arduino nano

[@thedankoona_5854]

like tinkernut

[@Educ8s]

Yes, that's a good idea!

[@rodrimunoz9110]

educ8s.tv Hi Nick, what if I want to use this screen for a project that also needs to save data in a SD card; the MOSI,MISO,CLK pins are already busy with the screen! (using arduino UNO or an Attiny84) Thanks beforehand! :)

[@kevinconnors5070]

And also attach a bluetooth receiver to upload video/alerts/programs/games from cell phone or cpu!

[@michaelladen7049]

I came to this video because I am considering using this display to make a smart watch with the nano actually! Still deciding on the batteries to use, and it's a very hard choice!

[@WestSenecaValleyRailroad]

I plan on using a few of these as arrival / departure displays for the train layout I'm building. The size will be perfect!

[@RCru24]

Got it running straight away - good walkthrough - thanks!

[@sblantipodi]

Is there a i2c version of this display?

[@faizakram3686]

Yes..

[@TheWhitde]

I have a SSD1351 which is similar... but found the SSD1331 has RGB565 and RGB233 mode (the SSD1351 also has other modes but they're crap IMO because of the extra bandwidth and/or memory needed). The later is a good compromise on small MCU's as a transfer buffer is 128*128 instead of 128*128*2. Basically 16K instead of 32K. I can show video @ 128*128 with > 30fps and sound on an Arduino Due... so being able to do the same with 8 bit mode should allow me to store larger clips and with dithering still get good content. These are great little screens.

[@Avidiy]

hello sir i am trying to put it toghter but my display has d0 and d1 (d0 near your scl and d1 near your sda) plz help asap

[@ctbram0627]

I have a simple problem that has cost me an entire day trying to figure out. I have a 96x64x24-bit bmp file (19kB). I just want to display this damn image on the display. I spent the entire day today and CANNOT find a way to do it without an SD card. There does not seem to be a color drawImage function in the adafruit gfx library and I cannot find an application that will create a color array in C. Is there any way to store a 19kB bmp in program memory on the arduino and display the image on a 1331 oled?

[@sakisv4138]

Hi Nick! Your videos are really great for getting knowledge! As amateur I programmed one nice ssd1351 1.5' display showing continuously values such as time, temp, hum and barometric press and in one month 'burn in' occured. I haven't seen ,maybe i'm wrong, something relevant in your videos. Is in your plans to give some advices regarding how to avoid this terrible thing by scrolling, fading down the display or other techniques?

[@ВасилийТёркин-г3м]

Why you did not show some hi-color 16b images on this screen? It could be interesting and spectacularly.

[@macasoft5260]

Is it possible to make it work with an esp32?

[@sibaramdatta5625]

Sir thanks for your project. I wish to make one weather station using ESP32 & 1.5 inch waveshare rgb oled display. I have already made a weather station of ESP8266 & SH1106 1.3 inch blue colour oled which is not attractive rather than rgb display. Please posted it if possible .

[@QualityRecord]

What is your experience with the lifespan of this? I think I'm seeing some degradation after only a couple of days of use. 100% on.

[@pedotec]

I very much like your work Nick! One suggestion: a gps "corrected" RTC with one of your displays!

[@Educ8s]

That's a good idea, I think about it!

[@xxxd6068]

I connected it to 5v by mistake and would that affect the screen plz help

[@princeansarikali9596]

Sir please. make a video can display the coins already inserted to the coin slot

[@tanbirsohail]

Dont you need level shifters? Are the pins capable of handling 5v logic signals?

[@colonfrancelj9356]

Yes

[@thibaut6519]

Does bigger OLED display exist ?

[@Educ8s]

Yes, I have seen a 1.3' one but it is monochrome

[@rothpe1]

Hi, thanks for this video. I installed Display but if i will change rotation to 90° it doesn't work. Text is not rotate. Code: Display.setRotation(1); I use LIbrary ssd1331. Perhaps you can help. Thansk and best regards Peter

[@flyingbrick88]

Super confused about mine.. IV had my code working on a color tft (that you also reviewed) but with it changed over to the oled its just painfully slow :-( have you noticed with your oled vs tft that the two adafruit demos actually display in quite different way? Any idea why this is?, Does the oled just not process data as well?

[@flyingbrick88]

changed a few things... a little faster but still terrible. Its like it always refreshes from left to right line by line and is visibly slow... dammit. Also.. can anyone give advice on library to show hex images on this color OLED? I see there is stuff available (and you did a video) on displaying images on the older single color OLED

[@migueldoliveiracomposer]

Hi. Anyone knows if its possible to change the SDA and SCL pins in the code? (if you have pins 11 and 13 already in use). Thanks in advance

[@StanMoi]

Is it possible to display on it images from web?

[@interlinkknight]

It's slow. each frame takes 1 second or more to load. is the interface fault? or arduino itself fault?

[@Educ8s]

Having a faster microcontroller will speed things up!

[@SettimaLegione]

What is max SPI frequency? 400KHz or some MegaHertz?

[@colonfrancelj9356]

LOL

[@colonfrancelj9356]

It is slow because you're refreshing every second. Try only clearing stuff you change. Additionally you can use a faster library like this github.com/sumotoy/SSD_13XX

[@rowanr-m2373]

use hardware spi, it's way faster

[@aerojani]

i have connected oed with same connection with arduino uno .its not working when i plug arduino power supply with usp cable to laptop.

[@colonfrancelj9356]

Have you tried turning it off and an again? But, seriously though, check your connections, and make sure you're using the same library as he is.

[@lamogus2350]

Just one question is arduino Can play doom

[@HX2003]

What a nice display!

[@vinco1]

When will you make a tutorial with the chip?

[@Educ8s]

Yes, now that GPIO library is available, it is a lot easier to work with the CHIP

[@LuisRamos-gh3ud]

I used all the steps, but it seems that the it doesn't any text with size 1. Board issue?

[@Educ8s]

That's very strange. Did you change anything at the code?

[@LuisRamos-gh3ud]

It's working. I've swapped de DC-CS cables !!I guess I better use diferent color cables ;)Interesting that the other text size and drawings were working fine

[@dimitriskarampistis7605]

The screen is blinking every second with the update of the screen is it possible not to blink and just change the specific value?

[@colonfrancelj9356]

Yes it is. Just don't update the things you don't need to, but clear the stuff you are

[@MkmeOrg]

Great tutorial Nick! That in an I2C version would be fantastic! Cheers

[@Educ8s]

Thank Eric! Yes I miss the ease of use of the I2C version of the display! Cheers!

[@BenjaminEsposti]

The only thing is, if you're using I2C, you won't be able to update the display as fast as you would with an SPI or even a parallel interface. (This is especially so, because the display is RGB! The display has just over 2x the number of pixels as a regular monochrome 128x64 display. But this is assuming the display is RGB - it may in fact be RGBW (four colors). In that case, there are even more pixels!).

[@triac777]

Thank you for another informative video.

[@easynow6599]

i had an "..sendCommand' was not declared in this scope..." error at compile.. and couldnt find the solution..Adafruit_SSD library was fine. solution: i had to update Adafruit gfx library.. Also..for Arduino Nano i used the same pins as in the video.. and for the complilation error "expected ',' or '...' before numeric constant" i change "#define sclk 13" to "const int sclk = 13;" (and the next define lines in similar way)

[@anedosugov]

is this screen readable outside on a bright day? thanks!

[@colonfrancelj9356]

I believe so

[@carlospradovila8328]

Felicitaciones por lo bien expuesto y el mejor resultado de su explicación. Gracias.

[@nednoah1]

I keep getting these messages whenever I try to upload the test sketch. Please help haha exit status 1 no matching function for call to 'Adafruit_SSD1331::writePixel(unsigned int)'

[@stephenmorris-jones6010]

Watching this as I get the same error.

[@nednoah1]

I deleted this whole part at the bottom void lcdTestPattern(void) { uint8_t w,h; display.setAddrWindow(0, 0, 96, 64); for(h=0; h71){display.writePixel(BLUE);} else if(w>59){display.writePixel(GREEN);} else if(w>47){display.writePixel(CYAN);} else if(w>35){display.writePixel(RED);} else if(w>23){display.writePixel(MAGENTA);} else if(w>11){display.writePixel(YELLOW);} else {display.writePixel(BLACK);} } } display.endWrite(); } and then this part lcdTestPattern(); and then it worked.. I still would like to know what was wrong with the stuff i deleted, will figure it out eventually

[@stephenmorris-jones6010]

@@nednoah1 Thank you, I'll try that. It won't be for a couple of weeks as I'm away for a trip.

[@stephenmorris-jones6010]

@@nednoah1 Brilliant, thanks you for that simple fix :-) Your help was much appreciated, Steve

[@nednoah1]

@@stephenmorris-jones6010 My Pleasure :D

[@pembatamang8233]

what does dc mean..how does it work

[@jaywon555]

Hey Nick, I think it's time to integrate a 3D printer, great way to finalize your projects.

[@Educ8s]

Yes I have already bought a 3d printer and I am learning to design my own things. Expect a video soon ;-)

[@CurtRowlett]

Nick: Thank you for posting this video. Your tutorials are informative, easy to follow and you choose great projects. I'm subscribing to your channel so that I don't miss anything new!

[@VikasKumar-yy3rx]

Will it work with raspberry?

[@joacimwennerberg8310]

Thanks Nick! 😀

[@gauravkesharwani5877]

U knw what sir, I will definitely suscribe

[@lofi_lover_girl]

hey, my test didnt work :(

[@energymaster190]

unfortnunatelly is not forking for me....i dont know why.... my screen rest black ans nothing happen...

[@stephenmorris-jones6010]

See NEd Noah's suggestion above. His dele tion worked for me

[@IvanGeorgiev]

nice video! i would appreciate some help with a project of mine. Maybe you've done something like this. Can point me to some resource or make a video about Arduino Uno Wifi with Esp8266 powered by the Arduino. Do you know how to wire this setup correctly?

[@curtisnewton895]

sda/scl are not SPI

[@ovi_4]

Your videos are always great videos but can you please tone down the music? It is disturbing when try to concentrate @ what you are saying. Thank you.

[@AhCup]

Is it possible to use this screen on Raspberry pi?

[@Educ8s]

Yes, I think so

[@AhCup]

It would be cool if you show us how. It would make some cool project combine with Pi zero.

[@scottcote711]

Did you ever post the pong game code?

[@Educ8s]

Sure, check the video description of the Pong Game

[@legohexman2858]

The code doesn’t work for me

[@ashrulkhair21]

i got this error, could you help me big bro? wht's wrong ? Arduino: 1.6.6 (Windows 10), Board: "Arduino/Genuino Uno" D:\RFID PROJECTS\RFID\RFID.ino: In function 'void readRFID()': RFID:53: error: invalid conversion from 'byte {aka unsigned char}' to 'MFRC522::PICC_Type' [-fpermissive] MFRC522::PICC_Type piccType = rfid.PICC_GetType(rfid.uid.sak); ^ exit status 1 invalid conversion from 'byte {aka unsigned char}' to 'MFRC522::PICC_Type' [-fpermissive] This report would have more information with "Show verbose output during compilation" enabled in File > Preferences.

[@Educ8s]

What version of the IDE are you using?

[@supercables251]

This is an error with the RFID code, the problem is an "invalid conversion from byte to 'MFRC522::PICC_Type' [-fpermissive]" Look where you are making this conversion

[@redcurtain6851]

Hello am getting this error containing loop for(t = 0 ; t

[@dzplayer0149]

did not work my screen is just white nothing happens

[@kuwala]

Thanks great video~!

[@seaha3750]

ho dude. your videos arw absolutly great. the helped me alot. maybe you can help me with a problem. i have made a programm for an monochrom oled and everything worked fine. Now i changed the code to use it with a color oled an it does not work really fine. i have one button and switch between 3 menu points. temp high and voltage. but every screen is running from left to right every second. What have i done wrong i searched all the websites but found nothing. Maybe you can help me. please

[@colonfrancelj9356]

It will do this if you constantly clear the screen. I would only clear the parts you're changing. Additionally, you could use another library like this one: github.com/sumotoy/SSD_13XX. It is much faster

[@dylanhd1536]

Could be used in augmented reality

[@rodrimunoz9110]

Hi Nick, what if I want to use this screen for a project that also needs to save data in a SD card; the MOSI,MISO,CLK pins are already busy with the screen! (using arduino UNO or an Attiny84) Thanks beforehand! :)

[@colonfrancelj9356]

I believe you can use both simultaneously

[@carlospradovila8328]

I would like to have the pin-pong game that you are writing. Greetings and thanks.

[@sujay_12]

Watching after 6 years later 😶‍🌫️😶‍🌫️

[@4Erlik]

Great video but the PONG really did it for me. *subscribe*

[@Educ8s]

Thank you!

[@TutocarloCV]

nice

[@princeansarikali9596]

Sir please. make a video can display the coins already inserted to the coin slot