Yep, 0.96" for about 4 bucks delivered to my door almost instantly (bite on that Amazon.com).
The screens ARE small but in the big scheme of things they are not necessary. They are useful for learning how to work with the ESP8266. I bought mine so I could follow along with the YouTube crowd but probably flashing an LED On and Off would have been just as useful. That would have been a lot less libraries to download and install!
The real purpose of the 8266 is to send and receive data by WiFi. Displaying to a screen, in my opinion, is better served by using an Arduino but I probably feel this way only because I've already figured out how to get an assortment of screens working with the different flavors of Arduinos.
The prices that I've seen for an Arduino WiFi solution are a bit spendy compared to the 8266 (about $3.40 USD including delivery for the NodeMCU board). I also bought a USB to TTL dongle for it before learning that it is happily programmed by the Arduino IDE (when the right libraries are installed) so the dongle was unnecessary.
It seems the ESP8266 dominates in the IoT universe.
One baby step at a time, I'm trying to take the "DI" out of IDIOT so I can IOT, at least for me
The first hurdle is behind me now - I can flash code to the 8266.
And the code looks like what we would expect from Arduino...
Here is a snippet:
// display text
display.setTextSize(3);
display.setTextColor(WHITE);
display.setCursor(2,1);
display.println(" Hello Tan :)");
display.display();
delay(2000);
display.clearDisplay();
A quirk is the
display.display();. Seems you tell it what to display and this line says "Now you can display it".
Makes sense.
