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SSD1306 display drivers and font rendering

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76 points todsacerdoti | 1 comments | 14 Apr 25 17:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.274s | source
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kaycebasques ◴[14 Apr 25 17:48 UTC] No.43684067[source]▶
I really love the SSD1306 for its educational value. If you've bought a sensor kit for Arduino or ESP32 or Pico or whatever, chances are decent that you already have an SSD1306 lying around. There's so much example code for it. And the datasheet was pretty easy to grok IMO. My first exposure to it was in the pico-examples repo: https://github.com/raspberrypi/pico-examples/tree/master/i2c...

There's a few Rust libraries for it, too. And it's supported in Wokwi! https://wokwi.com/projects/425067706980448257

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1. hadlock ◴[14 Apr 25 20:26 UTC] No.43685938[source]▶
I love the SSD1306 simply because a simple arduino can drive it at ~150fps making for some really smooth graphics. 1 bit per pixel monochrome OLED means it's got a tiny frame-buffer, and you can drive it ridiculously fast especially over SPI. It's really great for stuff like realtime gauges etc.