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In this final part of the series we will use three SSD1306 128×64 pixel OLED display modules to create the kind of display you’d find on the concourse of a mid-sized railway station. Two screens will detail departures, the third will feature a clock and train arrivals. By pulling together the code from this series,…
In this series, we are building a main passenger information display for a model railway using a SSD1306 128×64 pixel OLED display module, driven by a nano. So far we have covered how to create a departures board, a combined clock and an arrivals board. In this latest post we will revisit our departures board…
We continue our series looking at how to use a SSD1306 128×64 pixel OLED display module on a model railway. In this part we will be making an Arrivals board. The information we need for arrivals is very similar to that for our departures board. We will be adapting the departures code to create the…
This series is looking at how to use a SSD1306 128×64 pixel OLED display module as a passenger information display on a model railway. The first in the series created a train departures display. The second a clock to keep time. We are going to combine these two to create a dynamic departures board that…
This series looks at how to use a SSD1306 128×64 pixel OLED display module as a passenger information display on a model railway. The first post in the series created a train departures display. We now move on to creating and displaying a clock. It is possible to fit a real time clock module to…
This is the first post in a series looking at how to use a SSD1306 128×64 Pixel OLED Display Module as a passenger information display on a model railway. The screens on these modules are 22mm by 11mm. This makes them a scale size of 1.6m wide by 0.8m high at OO scale. So they…
Recently we seem to be having a running theme for wanting to drive multiple displays from a single Arduino, and our latest library is no exception. To coincide with the release of a larger 1.3†version of our ever popular uOLED displays we have also decided to release a new Arduino library to make it…
To compliment two of our latest product releases we have now released a brand new Arduino library for controlling WS2812 based RGB LED products. You can check out the following compatible products for this library on our website here: Digitally controlled 8x RGB LED Light Strip (HCMODU0075) Flexible Digitally Controlled RGB LED strips (HCOPTO0028) Using…
We’ve now updated our HCMAX7219 led driver library to support serial dot matrix displays such as our dot matrix module shown in the above image. The library supports multiple drivers connected in series and a built-in alphanumeric font to make displaying text and numbers simple. With the new added commands it is easy to make a…
The MAX7219 LED driver is a handy IC for when you want to drive multiple LED’s. Although your Arduino may have plenty of digital IO pins for most applications, when you interface to LEDs such as seven segment displays or LED matrix modules you’ll very quickly run out of pins. The MAX7219 can take care…
