{"id":2641,"date":"2020-08-04T14:26:49","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T04:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jandmf.com\/?p=2641"},"modified":"2020-08-04T14:26:51","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T04:26:51","slug":"a-slightly-bigger-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jandmf.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/04\/a-slightly-bigger-display\/","title":{"rendered":"A slightly bigger display"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Adafruit 128×64 OLED Bonnet for Raspberry Pi<\/h3>\t\t\t

So after getting the little display I decided to have a go with the Adafruit 128×64 OLED Bonnet for Raspberry Pi. After a bit of messing about this is what it looks like in operation<\/span><\/p>\n

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Adafruit 128×64 OLED Bonnet for Raspberry Pi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’ve put eight lines of text on it and enabled a few of the buttons \/ joystick. The test is date, time, cpu temp, CPU and memory used percentages, root partition usage, swap usage, uptime and the boot time. The buttons thus far assigned are button 5 for reboot, button 6 for power off, joystick down is Samba restart and joystick up is Apache2 restart. It required a fair bit of messing around as well as learning a bit about GPIO pins and acting on the buttons.<\/p>\n

Anyway here’s the Python3 script.<\/a> It isn’t particularly well commented – the comments were more for my use while I was writing it. And nor is there any error checking. Python3 seems to do a pretty good job of that.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>

The next step<\/h3>\t\t\t

For my next trick I want to have a play with a Adafruit Mini PiTFT – 135×240 Color TFT Add-on for Raspberry Pi<\/a>. I don’t know what I’ll display on it yet but I’m sure I’ll think of something.<\/span><\/p>\n

I’m also tossing around the idea of having a play with the PiTFT Plus 320×240 2.8 TFT + Resistive Touchscreen<\/a><\/p>\n

Because of all this messing around during the COVID-19 restrictions that we are living under here in Victoria, Australia I reckon I may have to get another Pi. Probably a 2GB Pi 4 this time – I already have a 4GB and a 1GB and I cant see a reason for forking out the extra cash for the 8GB iteration.<\/p>\n

Of course another Pi means another SSD to boot from, another case and probably a fan shim. Hmmm. I can see the price of all this creeping well toward unaffordable already.<\/p>\n

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So after getting the little display I decided to have a go with the Adafruit 128×64 OLED Bonnet for Raspberry Pi. After a bit of messing about this is what it looks like in operation I’ve put eight lines of text on it and enabled a few of the buttons \/ joystick. The test is … Continue reading “A slightly bigger display”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pi"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jandmf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jandmf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jandmf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jandmf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jandmf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2641"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/jandmf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2655,"href":"https:\/\/jandmf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641\/revisions\/2655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jandmf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jandmf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jandmf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}