My Top 5 Arduino Displays

Over the years I've tried many displays and I always return to only a few of them to use in my arduino projects. It can be confusing to choose the correct display to buy so on this video I talk about the best displays I've tried so far to use with arduino.

I made video tutorials for my top 5 displays:

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For the other displays that I show on the video, but that are not in my top 5, I don't have video tutorials but here I upload my example scketches that you can use to learn how to use them:

[justinw.]

I can’t believe how much the price has increased with the Nextion displays. I tried incorporating one into my project, but with how unintuitive their proprietary editor software is, the cost doesn’t outweigh any benefits. So I went back to the tft 2.8” route since I already knew how to program that, and didn’t feel the need to try understanding another display.

[pje_]

Accurately I purchased the same OLED display 3 days ago before I watched this video and tommorow it will be at my home :)

[gwtomsic]

Excellent! You are a natural teacher. Spot on, well paced, good summaries, perfect.

[joshua]

just want to say thanks, you saved me hours of research.

[퓨전테크하우스_FuHu]

You've covered almost all of the lcd. That's great. Thank you for the video.

[IvanIvan]

0:47 Like you said properly, the flickering is caused by delete the previous text/digits and then rewrite it at the same position.
This is simple to implement ad actually the first solution someone came up to.
The flickering is caused due the pixels(LED, OLED, TFT or whatever) switching off and on again after a while. If this "while" takes too long, human eyes can detect an annoying flickering, like switch on and off a ordinary LED.
But if you switch on-off-on fast enough our eyes don´t see a flickering anymore.

Unfortunately this is not always possible if you work with slow buses like I2C etc.
One way to solve this issue is to overwrite the previous text/digits and delete only what is leftover, and to go a step further, skip the digits which already are displayed and overwrite only those which differs from the previous ones.
If you for eg. write "432" and the next value is "431" skip "43" and overwrite "2" with "1" and delete the leftover.
The leftover is caused by the different widths of the digits, in this case "1" is smaller than "2" so you end up with an overflow on the right side.
I developed such a function which handles that process and it works well, no flickering and fast refresh rate, even on a I2C bus.
It took me some effort because I had to fight through datasheets of display driver micro controller etc. to setup the function properly.
Was it worth put that effort in it?
For sure!

[于文浩-ub]

OLED screen is good, but you should be careful if you want to show something for a very long time, as the brightness will decline after long time lighten up, and the brightness of each pixel will become uneven.

[Jaroav]

Didn't know about Nextion. It really looks gorgeous and proffesional, and not so expensive considering the capabilities. Will definitely consider. Thanks!

[nrdesign]

That's an impressive collection of displays

[jonathanduketis]

Thank you for your video. i am software engineer but always dreamed of making my own devices, so I am starting with my first project using an Arduino, Camera and LED screen. Can't wait to watch the rest of your videos to learn how to piece everything together. then I can start programming the magic of machine learning to detect speeds of a baseball :)

[isprithul]

I subscribed simply because you have so many arduinos. I know you love Arduino!

[gladiusso]

Really great and informative video! Thank you!

[microbits]

1:48 with the library oled i2c you can control the brightness

[bretharrell]

thank you for taking the time to share this information! Very helpful

[stevetobias]

Thank you, I am buying displays at the moment so great timing

[zikermu]

Great . Thank you very much for this great detailed presentation. You have done a great job that makes our lives easier.

[thedadgeek]

Your video is priceless thanks so much. Much abundance and love to you. 💪🏾

[critor]

Wow!
Thank you so much for this video. Just started to pick up more on the electronics hobby because I've been tearing down my mini mill, mini lathe and building tools out of salvaged treadmill motors. Have a feeling your videos will be very helpful in the following years of exploration. I made sure to subscribe and give a thumbs up. Cheers m8

[msayed]

Very Useful video, Thanks for your time & effort to help us with this great work

[thecombatengineer]

Awesome man, thank you! I am doing something similar. I have the OLED, 0x9488, and Nextion 3.5 Advanced... I love the HFX_8357 Lib for the TFts.