{"id":12228,"date":"2016-10-18T10:53:14","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T14:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/?p=12228"},"modified":"2016-10-18T10:53:14","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T14:53:14","slug":"pc-stats-tiny-oled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/pc-stats-tiny-oled\/","title":{"rendered":"PC stats on a tiny OLED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rupert Hirst bought a new Nvidia GTX1080 graphics card, and in order to monitor its performance, he built an <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/runawaybrainz.blogspot.com\/2016\/10\/gnat-stats-tiny-oled-pc-performance.html\" target=\"_blank\">external PC stat display<\/a><\/strong> using an Arduino Pro Micro and a 128&#215;64 pixel I2C OLED display. Note that unlike in Arduino Uno, the I2C pins on the Pro Micro are available at\u00a0the D2(SDA) and D3(SCL) I\/O pins. In order to minimize the footprint of his project, he directly hooked the 4 pins (VCC, GND, SCL, and SDA) of the OLED display to the 4 I\/O pins in a single row (D5, D4, D3, and D2) of the Pro Micro to minimize the footprint of the project. Because the OLED only consumes ~19mA current during operation, he was able to\u00a0power the display by pulling D5 High(5v) and D4 Low(to ground).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/P1080959-Large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12230\" src=\"http:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/P1080959-Large.jpg\" alt=\"p1080959-large\" width=\"800\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/P1080959-Large.jpg 800w, https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/P1080959-Large-580x397.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rupert Hirst bought a new Nvidia GTX1080 graphics card, and in order to monitor its performance, he built an external PC stat display using an Arduino Pro Micro and a 128&#215;64 pixel I2C OLED display. Note that unlike in Arduino Uno, the I2C pins on the Pro Micro are available at\u00a0the D2(SDA) and D3(SCL) I\/O pins. In order to minimize the footprint of his project, he directly hooked the 4 pins (VCC, GND, SCL, and SDA) of the OLED display to the 4 I\/O pins in a single row (D5, D4, D3, and D2) of the Pro Micro to minimize<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[1512,1511],"class_list":["post-12228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arduino-2","tag-arduino-oled","tag-pc-stats-monitor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12228"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12231,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12228\/revisions\/12231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}