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LINKERKIT OLED for Raspberry Pi and Arduino 1. GENERAL INFORMATION Dear customer, thank you for choosing our product. In the following, we will show you how to use your product. Should you encounter any unexpected problems during use, please do not...
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2. CONNECTION TO RASPBERRY PI 1. connect the display Use our LinkerKit sytem so that you can plug in the LinkerKit cable into the I2C port like in the following picture. If you want to connect the display directly with your device, the table shows you the pin assignment.
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You can edit the file directly on the Raspberry with the following command: sudo nano/boot/config.txt config.txt can be edited directly on the Raspberry With the key combination „Strg“ + „X“ and a following „Y“ and „Enter“ as a confirmation, changes will be saved. 3.Installation of the Adafruit SSD1306 library The developers of adafruit offer a library to control OLED displays with a SSD1306 chipset.
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4. Application of code examples In the adafruit library are some code examples. To invoke them, you first must switch to the example file with the following command. cd examples From there you can invoke the following commands: show ticker sudo python animate.py show a little picture sudo python image.py happycat_oled_64.ppm...
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If you want to connect the display directly with your device, the table shows you the pin assignment. pin name display pin name Arduino 2.Installation of adafruit libraries The developers of adafruit offer a library to control OLED displays with a SSD1306 chipset.
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These must be changed like that: -------------------------------------------------- #define SSD1306_128_64 #define SSD1306_128_32 #define SSD1306_128_16 /* =============================================== ...\libraries\Adafruit_SSD1306-master\examples\ssd1306_128x64_i2c.ino must be the following lines: //by default, we‘ll generate the high voltage from the 3.3v line internally! (neat!) display.begin(SSD1306_SWITCHCAPVCC, 0x3D; // initialize with the I2C addr 0x3D (for the 128x64) init done These must be changed like that: //by default, we‘ll generate the high voltage from the 3.3v line...
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... and can be directly compiled and loaded on the Arduino.
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We send you a parcel stamp with which you can send us your old appliance free of charge. For this possibility, you must contact us via e-mail at service@joy-it.net or via telephone. Information about packaging: Please package your old appliance safe during transport. Should you not have a suitable packaging material or you do not want to use your own material, you can contact us and we will send you an appropriate package.
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