I am trying to build a wearable display with this product and honestly don’t know where to start. I am looking for necessary additional components and also basic guidance to creating code for a simple numeric display. Any advice would be great!
Hi Ztyler,
If you have not read it already, I would recommend starting this project by reading through the [Hookup Guide for the Flexible Grayscale OLED. That will go over your basic connections, example code and will also have recommendations for a microcontroller to use with it. The display will work with a standard Arduino like the [SparkFun RedBoard so the best equivalent development board we have for a wearable project would be the [LilyPad Arduino 328 Main Board. That has the same pinout (albeit in a different form-factor) as the RedBoard so you can follow along in the Hookup Guide with the connections between the display and Arduino. Just note that you will need a separate USB-to-Serial converter like the [SparkFun FTDI Basic Breakout to connect your LilyPad Main Board to you computer to upload code.
From there, try playing around with the examples from the library and with some time you should be able to get the display showing the characters you want. One final resource that can help you with the other components for this project (power, conductive thread, etc.) is the [LilyPad Resource Center that hosts everything LilyPad including tutorials, projects and products for you to take a look through.
I hope this helps you get your project started. Let us know if you have any other questions about these or other SparkFun products you want to use for your wearable project and we would be happy to help as much as we can.](LilyPad Ecosystem - SparkFun Electronics)](https://www.sparkfun.com/products/9716)](LilyPad Arduino 328 Main Board - DEV-13342 - SparkFun Electronics)](https://www.sparkfun.com/products/13975)](Flexible Grayscale OLED Hookup Guide - SparkFun Learn)