Working with Displays: Book 2 of the Arduino Short Reads Series

UPDATED in 2023 for Arduino IDE 2.0 and coverage of OLED display added.
This is the second book of the Arduino Short Reads series. Book 1 covers everything you need to get started with this popular, low cost and versatile micro controller eco-system. This book takes a comprehensive look at the most popular displays used as part of Arduino based projects. The book takes you through the basics of each display type and then takes a deeper dive to give a comprehensive understanding of its operation and its pros and cons when applied to Arduino environments.

There are now 14 experiments in this second edition to help reinforce your understanding, and these are designed to be easy to carry out with low cost and readily available components. You will look at basic operation of LEDs, Shift Registers, 7-Segment LED types, the TM1637 controller, the MAX7219 controller, the ever popular LCD1602 and now the 0.96inch OLED display.

This series of books are written with the novice engineer in mind, for students or those simply looking to have fun. Whatever your goals are, it is hoped that you find this book useful, engaging and that you have fun.
Figure 4-7 has been corrected in this edition.

There are over 680 pages of material in the overall series of books and 76 experiment! The series really is a comprehensive and definitive guide to the Arduino ecosystem, foundation electronics and coding.

Other books in the series cover the following subjects: Book 1 – First Steps with Arduino Book 3 – Controlling Motors Book 4 – Range Finding, Object Detection and Object Avoidance Book 5 – Building a Simple Rover Book 6 – Arduino Special Functions Book 7 – Communications with Arduino and the ESP32 Book 8 – The Arduino Leonardo