Internet of Things with Python

Displaying text on an OLED display

The upm library includes support for the SeeedStudio Grove OLED display 0.96", 16 grayscale 96-by-96 dot matrix OLED display breakout board the in the pyupm_i2clcd module. As this OLED display uses SSD1327 driver integrated circuit, the SSD1327 class declared in this module represents a 96-by-96 dot matrix OLED display, connected to our board. The class makes it easy to clear the OLED screen, draw bitmap images, specify the cursor location, and write text through the I²C bus. The class works with the mraa.I2c class under the hoods to talk with the OLED display.

We will create a new Oled class that will represent the 96-by-96 dot matrix OLED and will use its default 8-by-8 character box to display text. We will ...