📺 Hiletgo 0.96" SPI Serial OLED LCD Display SSD1306: High-quality 12864 Characters for Arduino, STM32, and 51 Review

This single board computer falls short of expectations. While it is affordable, the performance is severely lacking when compared to other options in the same category. The user interface is difficult to navigate, and the overall design feels cheaply made. On the plus side, it does run basic programs and functions, but for anyone looking for a more powerful device, it's best to look elsewhere.

This review refers to the HiLetgo I2C 0.96 inch OLED display. First of all I have to say that this is a nice little display and it is easy to use. I like the I2C device as it only requires 4 wire connections including the power connections (i.e. VCC and GND). This makes wiring very easy and eliminates unnecessary confusion. SDA and SCL are I2C signal pins. In my case I am using my ESP8266 D1 to drive this OLED. For the software I used Adafruit's ssd1306 oled driver. After installing the library

I liked it, but it took me a while to get the context. I'm using an Arduino Pro Micro and, on the advice of another reviewer, the u8g2 library. You can get this from the library manager in Arduino 1.8.5. What I wanted to silkscreen informatively were the names for the clock and the dates: D0=clockD1=dates. I commented out that line to select SSD1306 and used those values. :U8X8_SSD1306_128X64_NONAME_4W_SW_SPI u8x8(/* clock=A2*/ 20, /* data=A3*/ 21, /* cs=A10*/ 10, /* dc=A0*/ 18, /* reset=A1*/…