Hackaday: These days, adding a little LCD or OLED to your project is so cheap and easy that you can do it on a whim. Even if your original idea didn’t call for a display, if you’ve got I2C and a couple bucks burning a hole in your pocket, why not add one? Surely you’ll figure out what to show on it as the project develops.
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This is such a cool tool! A few years ago when I was really into mechanical keyboards I found myself enamored with a little OLED display you could put on a custom keyboard that showed the famous bongo cat playing the bongos as you typed. I can imagine that there are many other use cases for these cute little screens—for myself, I imagine they could be used in the design of a system for controlling something like color-changing lighting, or for help in the care of plants (as one example from the homepage of Lopaka shows). It’s really remarkable to contrast Lopaka’s user-friendly editor and the Java source code that it outputs; it makes it obvious that this tool could be instrumental in expediting the speed of projects involving these tiny screens as well as making them more accessible. It’s also pretty awesome that not only is it possible to draw shapes, add text, and use icons from Lopaka’s own libraries, but you can import your own images too.
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