Pro Mini 328 and LCD or OLED Display Compatibility

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Newbie here.

I am awaiting an Arduino Pro Mini 328 - 5V/16MHz sku: DEV-0921 which I purchased from Sparkfun. http://www.sparkfun.com/products/9218

Question: Not sure if I can use the LCD or the OLED that I also bought w/ the Pro Mini 328.

The LCD is: Basic 16x2 Character LCD - RGB Backlight 5V sku: LCD-10862 http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10862

and the OLED is: Graphic OLED Display - 0.96" Blue sku: LCD-10132 http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10132

Do I need a backpack display?

I would like to put the finished project in the smallest project box w/ just the Pro Mini board, a 3.7v Li-ion battery or maybe 2 in series and one of the Displays, preferably the OLED.

Thank you guys, hope some one can help out. I see a lot of unanswered postings on this forum or a one line answer that doesn’t really address the issue.

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Really confused.

How does one connect this OLED display to this board?

http://breaktru.com/ecig/arduinominipro.jpg

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You wouldn’t use the parallel interface. Either SPI or I2C. Google is your friend. This came when searching for ssd1308 arduino - http://dangerousprototypes.com/2011/10/ … inoteensy/ It uses SPI. Good luck - post your experiences back.

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Thank you so much for your reply Philba, I’ve been Googling my head off for several days but I guess I didn’t query correctly being a Newb.

Also, I didn’t see a Diagram for serial hook up in the controllers datasheet but did mentioned an MCU Serial Interface (4-wire SPI) and a (3-wire SPI)

Once I get my parts and get it together, I will post something.

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I just noticed the Arduino descriptions states- SPI: 10 (SS), 11 (MOSI), 12 (MISO), 13 (SCK). These pins support SPI communication, which, although provided by the underlying hardware, is not currently included in the Arduino language

Can I use this- I2C: 4 (SDA) and 5 (SCL). Support I2C (TWI) communication using the Wire library.

The link says: the library Marcus provides is SPI only

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http://arduino.cc/en/Reference/SPI

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I have successfully got the Basic LCD working but have no clue on how to proceed with the OLED display. I found the code in the link above but compiling generates a ton of errors. I think it’s for AVR Studio. I’m using Sketch 1.0, or I just don’t know what I’m doing. Sorry for all these Newbie idiotic questions.