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OLED Breakout Board - 16-bit Color 1.5" w/microSD holder - EYESPI Connector

by Adafruit
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These big 1.5" color OLED displays are perfect when you need a small display with vivid, high-contrast 16-bit color.

The visible portion of the OLED measures 1.5" diagonal and contains 128x128 RGB pixels, each one made of red, green and blue OLEDs. Each pixel can be set with 16-bits of resolution for a large range of colors. Because the display uses OLEDs, there is no backlight, and the contrast is very high (black is really black). Adafruit picked this display for its excellent color, this is the nicest mini OLED we could find!

This OLED uses the SSD1351 driver chip, which manages the display. You can talk to the driver chip using 4-wire write-only SPI (clock, data, chip select, data/command and an optional reset pin). Included on the fully assembled breakout is the OLED display and a small boost converter (required for providing 12V to the OLED) and a microSD card holder. This design includes built-in logic level shifting so you can use it with 3-5VDC power and logic levels. Our example code shows how to read a bitmap from the uSD card and display it all via SPI.

Please note that OLED displays are made of hundreds of...OLEDs! That means each pixel is a little organic LED, and if its kept on for over 1000 hours it'll start to dim. If you want to keep the display uniformly bright, please turn off the display (set the pixels off) when it isn't needed to keep them from dimming.

This display breakout also features an 18-pin "EYESPI" standard FPC connector with flip-top connector. You can use an 18-pin 0.5mm pitch FPC cable to connect to all the GPIO pins for when you want to skip the soldering.

Of course, we wouldn't just leave you with a datasheet and a "good luck!" - Adafruit have written a full open source graphics library that can draw pixels, lines, rectangles, circles, text and bitmaps as well as example code. The code is written for Arduino but can be easily ported to your favorite microcontroller! We do not have a detailed wiring tutorial at this time, but if you follow the example code wiring it should work just fine.

Technical Details

Revision History:

  • As of December 28, 2022 - Adafruit have updated this OLED breakout with an EYESPI connector to make cabling easier with an 18-pin FPC. They also used Adafruit Pinguin to make a lovely silkscreen. The board is otherwise the same size, pinout, and functionality.

Specifications:

  • 1.5" diagonal OLED, 16-bit color
  • SPI interface
  • 3.3-5V logic and power
  • Dimensions: 43.17mm / 1.7" x 42mm / 1.65" x 5.42mm / 0.2"
  • Display current draw is completely dependent on your usage: each OLED LED draws current when on so the more pixels you have lit, the more current is used. They tend to draw ~30mA or so in practice but for precise numbers you must measure the current in your usage circuit. This does not include the SD card, which is separate

SSD1351 Datasheet, 1.5" OLED module Datasheet, schematics, and Fritzing Library available in the product tutorial

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These big 1.5" color OLED displays are perfect when you need a small display with vivid, high-contrast 16-bit color.

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SKU
ADA1431
EAN
0606034877306
Brand
Adafruit
Stock available
8 units
Backorder not allowed on this product
Weight
20g

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