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  • Intel Inside (but not how you would expect)

    Intel Inside (but not how you would expect)

    I last left my Acorn RiscPC with a StrongARM CPU card and an IBM/Cyrix based 5×86 CPU card. I saw something come up cheap on eBay which I decided to purchase just due to its uniqueness which changes things a little. Read more

  • Shape drawing on the SSD1351 display

    Shape drawing on the SSD1351 display

    Based on the previous few posts, we now have lots of things we can do with the SSD1351 display. One additional thing we can play with this time is drawing shapes. There are a few tricks to doing this quickly. As with previous posts, this will work on other displays with minimal effort to convert… Read more

  • 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