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  • Font rendering on the SSD1351 display

    Font rendering on the SSD1351 display

    Now that we have image rendering down, it is time to look at font rendering on the SSD1351. As before the techniques used here will work with other graphics displays and libraries with minimal effort. Read more

  • Basic graphics on the SSD1351 display

    Basic graphics on the SSD1351 display

    Yesterday I wrote a post on how to wire up and initialise the SSD1351 display with a Raspberry Pi Pico. Today I’m going to delve a little into some routines to display things on the screen. A lot of what I’m covering from here onwards could be easily adapted to work on any graphic display,… Read more

  • How to use the SSD1351 OLED display

    How to use the SSD1351 OLED display

    In my previous post, I mentioned that I managed to get the SSD1351 working with a Raspberry Pi Pico. I figured I would write a few blog posts going into detail about how this is done. Read more

  • Interfacing a Raspberry Pi Pico to an SSD1351 OLED Display

    Interfacing a Raspberry Pi Pico to an SSD1351 OLED Display

    I was recently at FOSDEM in Brussels and noticed quite a few people walking around wearing digital badges. So, I thought when I get home I should see if I could cobble together my own one. Read more

  • Adventures with a “working” Pentium III Motherboard

    Adventures with a “working” Pentium III Motherboard

    In my quest to build my perfect early 2000s gaming PC I decided to build it into a tower machine with a full width ATX motherboard so I had all the expansion I could wish for. I bought one from eBay that was “tested working” and found it was anything but… Read more

  • PiStorm32-Lite and JLCPCB Soldering Issues

    PiStorm32-Lite and JLCPCB Soldering Issues

    There is a lot going on right now about PiStorm32-Lite and the delays in production due to some soldering issues. We now know why this is happening, so I figured I would summarise for everyone what is happening and why things are delayed. Read more