A 128×32 OLED add on board fro a Raspberry Pi

This is a mini OLED which is designed for the Raspberry Pi, it can work with Pi 1, B +, Pi 2, Pi 3 and Pi Zero. We tried it on a Raspberry Pi 3 and a Pi Zero.

The PiOLED comes with a monochrome 128×32 OLED, with blue pixels. The OLED screen uses only the I2C pins so you have plenty of GPIO connections available for LED sensor buttons, etc. It is also nice and compact so that it fits in any case.
These screens are small, only 1 inch diagonal, but very legible due to the high contrast of an OLED screen.

This screen is made of 128×32 single OLED blue pixels, no backlighting is required.
Using the oled is very easy, we will show the Python library taht we used later which has several interesting built in examples.

It comes completely pre-assembled and tested so you do not need to do anything else than plug it in.

Features:
6 pin header
Voltage: 3.3 v
Use 2 GPIO pins
Interface: I2C

The main chip is the popular SSD1306

Parts

Name	Link
Raspberry Pi 4	Aliexpress product link Amazon. com link Ebay search
128×32 OLED	Aliexpress product linkAmazon link ebay link

Software

I used the adafruit https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_Python_SSD1306. Open a command prompt on your Raspberry Pi and perform the following steps

Installing

sudo python -m pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel
git clone https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_Python_SSD1306.git
cd Adafruit_Python_SSD1306
sudo python setup.py install

Example:

There are several interesting examples, I picked the stats example which displays

You simply type in the following

cd examples
sudo python stats.py

For reference here is the code of this example

[codesyntax lang=”python”]

import time

import Adafruit_GPIO.SPI as SPI
import Adafruit_SSD1306

from PIL import Image
from PIL import ImageDraw
from PIL import ImageFont

import subprocess

# Raspberry Pi pin configuration:
RST = None     # on the PiOLED this pin isnt used
# Note the following are only used with SPI:
DC = 23
SPI_PORT = 0
SPI_DEVICE = 0

# Beaglebone Black pin configuration:
# RST = 'P9_12'
# Note the following are only used with SPI:
# DC = 'P9_15'
# SPI_PORT = 1
# SPI_DEVICE = 0

# 128x32 display with hardware I2C:
disp = Adafruit_SSD1306.SSD1306_128_32(rst=RST)

# 128x64 display with hardware I2C:
# disp = Adafruit_SSD1306.SSD1306_128_64(rst=RST)

# Note you can change the I2C address by passing an i2c_address parameter like:
# disp = Adafruit_SSD1306.SSD1306_128_64(rst=RST, i2c_address=0x3C)

# Alternatively you can specify an explicit I2C bus number, for example
# with the 128x32 display you would use:
# disp = Adafruit_SSD1306.SSD1306_128_32(rst=RST, i2c_bus=2)

# 128x32 display with hardware SPI:
# disp = Adafruit_SSD1306.SSD1306_128_32(rst=RST, dc=DC, spi=SPI.SpiDev(SPI_PORT, SPI_DEVICE, max_speed_hz=8000000))

# 128x64 display with hardware SPI:
# disp = Adafruit_SSD1306.SSD1306_128_64(rst=RST, dc=DC, spi=SPI.SpiDev(SPI_PORT, SPI_DEVICE, max_speed_hz=8000000))

# Alternatively you can specify a software SPI implementation by providing
# digital GPIO pin numbers for all the required display pins.  For example
# on a Raspberry Pi with the 128x32 display you might use:
# disp = Adafruit_SSD1306.SSD1306_128_32(rst=RST, dc=DC, sclk=18, din=25, cs=22)

# Initialize library.
disp.begin()

# Clear display.
disp.clear()
disp.display()

# Create blank image for drawing.
# Make sure to create image with mode '1' for 1-bit color.
width = disp.width
height = disp.height
image = Image.new('1', (width, height))

# Get drawing object to draw on image.
draw = ImageDraw.Draw(image)

# Draw a black filled box to clear the image.
draw.rectangle((0,0,width,height), outline=0, fill=0)

# Draw some shapes.
# First define some constants to allow easy resizing of shapes.
padding = -2
top = padding
bottom = height-padding
# Move left to right keeping track of the current x position for drawing shapes.
x = 0


# Load default font.
font = ImageFont.load_default()

# Alternatively load a TTF font.  Make sure the .ttf font file is in the same directory as the python script!
# Some other nice fonts to try: http://www.dafont.com/bitmap.php
# font = ImageFont.truetype('Minecraftia.ttf', 8)

while True:

    # Draw a black filled box to clear the image.
    draw.rectangle((0,0,width,height), outline=0, fill=0)

    # Shell scripts for system monitoring from here : https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/119126/command-to-display-memory-usage-disk-usage-and-cpu-load
    cmd = "hostname -I | cut -d\' \' -f1"
    IP = subprocess.check_output(cmd, shell = True )
    cmd = "top -bn1 | grep load | awk '{printf \"CPU Load: %.2f\", $(NF-2)}'"
    CPU = subprocess.check_output(cmd, shell = True )
    cmd = "free -m | awk 'NR==2{printf \"Mem: %s/%sMB %.2f%%\", $3,$2,$3*100/$2 }'"
    MemUsage = subprocess.check_output(cmd, shell = True )
    cmd = "df -h | awk '$NF==\"/\"{printf \"Disk: %d/%dGB %s\", $3,$2,$5}'"
    Disk = subprocess.check_output(cmd, shell = True )

    # Write two lines of text.

    draw.text((x, top),       "IP: " + str(IP),  font=font, fill=255)
    draw.text((x, top+8),     str(CPU), font=font, fill=255)
    draw.text((x, top+16),    str(MemUsage),  font=font, fill=255)
    draw.text((x, top+25),    str(Disk),  font=font, fill=255)

    # Display image.
    disp.image(image)
    disp.display()
    time.sleep(.1)

[/codesyntax]

As you can see it displays some interesting system monitoring information on your OLED