OLED Switch click

An OLED built in a button

This board has a module that combines a button and a full color organic LED display, plus input/output screw terminals for connecting an external circuit (to toggle it on and off).

The mechanical button itself is nicely built, with a translucent black housing. When pressed, it gives satisfying tactile feedback.

The display, built in the button itself, can show 64 by 48 pixel images with up to 65k colors (16-bit depth).

Displays crisp and clear images

The display is big enough to display simple information, whether as icons or words. Small characters are legible and clear.

The most interesting feature is that the display can be programmed to change the picture when needed (for example, you can design a reprogrammable keypad that would allow users to switch from latin to cyrillic script or to chinese characters).

VisualTFT can be used to prepare the bmp images. There is a learn.mikroe.com article that explains how to to take 16 or 24 bit bmp pictures and create C arrays. The article is about RGB matrices but the same principle applies.

The board communicates with the target MCU through the mikroBUS™ SPI interface. It uses a 3.3V power supply only.

Features

• NKK Switch ISC15ANP4
• OLED: 64x48px; 65k colors (16-bit depth)
• Long-lasting (3 million actuations minimum)
• All-in-one solution reduces complexity of HMI designs
• Screw terminals for connecting external electronics
• 3.3V power supply
• SPI interface
• Ready-to-use examples save development time

Specification

Features and usage notes

Hardware: a full color OLED built in a button

This board has a module that combines a button and a full color organic LED display, plus input/output screw terminals for connecting external electronics.

The mechanical button itself is nicely built, with a translucent black housing. When pressed, it gives satisfying tactile feedback.

The display, built in the button itself, can show 64 by 48 pixel images with up to 65k colors (16-bit depth).

With the screw terminals, you can toggle an external circuit on and off.

Software: frame buffering

The internal frame buffer on the OLED display holds 96x64 pixels with 2 bytes of 565 formatted color information for each. When displaying an image the size of the display, (64x48) the image will be displayed well, unless scrolled. To scroll an image without having random pixels from unused space in the internal frame buffer, load a 96x64 image onto the OLED Switch click with your desired image centered like the blue colored area in the picture below.

Programming

This code snippet takes a 565 formatted 16-bit bitmap and displays it on the OLED display, and then scrolls the image across the display.

 1 #define BIG_IMG_SIZE  12288
2
3 void main()
4 {
5     //Local Declarations
6     scroll_t scroll;               //Used for scroll settings
7
8     scroll.col_horiz_shift = 0x01; //Shift left to right
9     scroll.row_offset      = 0;    //No offset of rows
10     scroll.row_horiz_shift = 64;   //64: BIG IMAGE, 47:SMALL ( SMALL doesn't work well, because of firmware on click side )
11     scroll.row_vert_shift  = 0;    //No vertical shifting
12     scroll.interval        = 1;    //1: 10 frames between each shift
13
14     //Setup
15     system_setup( BIG ); //Provide size of allocated space for images ( 64x48 or 96x64 )
16
17     oled_switch_deactivate_scrolling();                                   //Scrolling must be absolutely deactivated first
18     oled_switch_scrolling_setup( scroll );                                //Next, setup scroll settings
19     oled_switch_draw_565_img( oled_switch_logo_big_bmp, BIG_IMG_SIZE );   //Draw the image to scroll
20     oled_switch_activate_scrolling();                                     //Activate scrolling on screen
21
22     while( 1 )//Forever
23     {
24
25     }
26 }

Code examples for OLED Switch click, written for MikroElektronika hardware and compilers are available on Libstock.

Pinout diagram

Notes	Pin	mikroBUStm				Pin	Notes
		1	AN	PWM	16	D/C	Data/Command
	RST	2	RST	INT	15
	CS	3	CS	RX	14
	SCK	4	SCK	TX	13
	MISO	5	MISO	SCL	12
	MOSI	6	MOSI	SDA	11
	+3.3V	7	+3.3V	+5V	10
	GND	8	GND	GND	9	GND