how to use Transparent OLED display with raspberry pi zero?

Components & Accessories Displays
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Hello there,

I recently bought the transparent OLED display from sparkfun, but the hookup guide at sparkfun site shows only the arduino libraries for the display, it would be really helpful if you can help me out to display the print out text from python in raspberry pi to this cool display, by giving me raspberry libraries or something else.

Waiting for your reply!! :wink:

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Hello Sangeeth,

Unfortunately, we don’t have Raspberry Pi support for this product directly.

However, this product does use our [Qwiic ecosystem. We have several Qwiic [Hats for the Raspberry Pi available to connect to these devices. This particular product doesn’t have Raspberry Pi compatible code currently available, but you could tinker and work with the Raspberry Pi I2C bus to make code that could work.

I hope this helps point you in the right direction.](https://www.sparkfun.com/categories/396)](https://www.sparkfun.com/qwiic)

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Thanks for replying, but I have further doubts, that is if I use a hat for the raspberry pi, would I still need to tinker with Raspberry pi and make a code to work the I2C bus or would I get a direct SPI connecction to the display through the hat. And also there are many different hats I see, please recommend one hat model

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I would recommend using the [Qwiic pHAT v2.](SparkFun Qwiic pHAT v2.0 for Raspberry Pi - DEV-15945 - SparkFun Electronics)

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Would I still have to write my own I2C interfacing library for the transparent display??

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Yes, we only have I2C libraries and support for our Qwiic ecosystem on the Arduino. If you’re wanting to use it on the Pi, then you’ll have to write the supporting code.

However, I would suggest giving GitHub or other programming communities a search to see if someone has already put in the leg work. I wish you the best of luck.