Week 7

This week, I read up on a project by "Lithium ION" involving Arduinos and OLED screens. It displays how images and QR codes can be shown on an 0.96" OLED screen attached to an Arduino board. 

For this project, an Arduino Nano, miniature OLED display, nine volt battery. and a PCB shield are required, as well as your chosen images. I chose this project as it seems useful for what I could pursue for my own Arduino project, and all of the materials can be easily purchased online.

In this version, only static images can be shown, but it is also possible to play videos at a low framerate of 20FPS to be compatible with the Arduino. While the images do have some glitches, it is an impressive looking experiment. 

Within the code, there is a 5 second timer per image, which means the images are sequenced in a kind of slideshow. If you choose to display a QR code, it can remain static on the screen for easy scanning.

I believe this would pair well with the project I researched last week, "Mind the Uhh". I think that combining the two, and having the ability to recognise audio and display images relating to it just with one board, would be challenging but effective in terms of visuals, especially if it could be enclosed in a miniature TV case.