Hi, recently I found this cheap chinese OLED LCD based on SSD1306 controller. And because I already have I2C driver written in Python for EasyVolts, I decided to try to control this LCD from my PC. For this, I don’t need anything but EasyVolts and the LCD. I made Python script that shows 2 pictures in a loop with 1 sec pauses between them. You can use any other pictures with 128*32pix resolution or even extend the suggested script to draw text (it should be much faster than sending bitmaps).
The python script looks pretty simple, complete project is in this archive: OLED_demo.
#main program starts here print("Open control serial port. To exit press CTRL+C") serialPort = serial.Serial('COM38')#set your port name here print('Set voltage:3300mV. Set current protection limit: 100mA.') serialPort.write(b'u3300\r') #set voltage value serialPort.write(b'i100\r') #set current limit value print("Init I2C bus") EasyVolts_SWI2C.init(serialPort) time.sleep(0.5) #init SSD1306 print("Init SSD1306(0x3c) OLED LCD") init_SS1306(serialPort) print("Send text to the LCD") try: while (1): print("show picture 1") ShowImageOnLCD(serialPort,"picture1.bmp") time.sleep(1) print("show picture 2") ShowImageOnLCD(serialPort,"picture2.bmp") time.sleep(1) except KeyboardInterrupt: pass #before exit set output power to 0 and TxRx pins to Z state serialPort.write(b'u0\r') serialPort.write(b'zT\r') serialPort.write(b'zR\r') serialPort.close() print("Exit!")
Video of the demostration is below:
Loved reading tthis thank you
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