Arduino Tutorial: Color OLED SSD1331 display with Arduino Uno from Banggood.com

In this video we are going to learn how to use the Color OLED display with the SSD1331 driver with Arduino. It's very easy!

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[yuudai]

I want to make displays for things I need around the house, like a clock or weather station. Much cooler than buying one, you make and program your own!
Great work, and thank you for guiding us through the process

[antongrobbelaar]

Thanks so much for clarifying the pin connections on this OLED. I was searching everywhere and thanks to your explanation, I got it working. Really appreciate it, it probably saved me days.

[samuelstuff]

just bought three of these; can't wait to test them out!

[johnellerington]

Great intro to these small screens, but a note of caution - they are extremely delicate, the top glass is very thin and easily broken at the corners, which wrecks the display.
If you buy from Ebay, they are cheap but shipped from China, some get damaged during shipping, so always test them on arrival. If they work OK, strengthen them up by running clear 2-part epoxy resin around the edges so that the corners are supported.

[WestSenecaValleyRailroad]

I plan on using a few of these as arrival / departure displays for the train layout I'm building. The size will be perfect!

[samuelstuff]

If you don’t want to wait a couple months I would recommend picking this up from amazon

[RCru]

Got it running straight away - good walkthrough - thanks!

[pedotec]

I very much like your work Nick!
One suggestion: a gps "corrected" RTC with one of your displays!

[legoleaderRyman]

you should use this screen to make a small smart watch with an arduino nano

[CurtRowlett]

Nick: Thank you for posting this video. Your tutorials are informative, easy to follow and you choose great projects. I'm subscribing to your channel so that I don't miss anything new!

[sakisv]

Hi Nick! Your videos are really great for getting knowledge! As amateur I programmed one nice ssd1351 1.5' display showing continuously values such as time, temp, hum and barometric press and in one month 'burn in' occured. I haven't seen, maybe i'm wrong, something relevant in your videos. Is in your plans to give some advices regarding how to avoid this terrible thing by scrolling, fading down the display or other techniques?

[TheWhitde]

I have a SSD1351 which is similar... but found the SSD1331 has RGB565 and RGB233 mode (the SSD1351 also has other modes but they're crap IMO because of the extra bandwidth and/or memory needed). The later is a good compromise on small MCU's as a transfer buffer is 128*128 instead of 128*128*2. Basically 16K instead of 32K. I can show video @ 128*128 with > 30fps and sound on an Arduino Due... so being able to do the same with 8 bit mode should allow me to store larger clips and with dithering still get good content. These are great little screens.

[carlospradovila]

Felicitaciones por lo bien expuesto y el mejor resultado de su explicación. Gracias.

[ВасилийТёркин-гм]

Why you did not show some hi-color 16b images on this screen? It could be interesting and spectacularly.

[MkmeOrg]

Great tutorial Nick! That in an I2C version would be fantastic! Cheers

[QualityRecord]

What is your experience with the lifespan of this? I think I'm seeing some degradation after only a couple of days of use. 100% on.

[sibaramdatta]

Sir thanks for your project. I wish to make one weather station using ESP32 & 1.5 inch waveshare rgb oled display. I have already made a weather station of ESP8266 & SH1106 1.3 inch blue colour oled which is not attractive rather than rgb display. Please posted it if possible .

[jaywon]

Hey Nick, I think it's time to integrate a 3D printer, great way to finalize your projects.

[ctbram]

I have a simple problem that has cost me an entire day trying to figure out. I have a 96x64x24-bit bmp file (19kB). I just want to display this damn image on the display. I spent the entire day today and CANNOT find a way to do it without an SD card. There does not seem to be a color drawImage function in the adafruit gfx library and I cannot find an application that will create a color array in C. Is there any way to store a 19kB bmp in program memory on the arduino and display the image on a 1331 oled?

[triac]

Thank you for another informative video.