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3. Hardware Description

4Display-Shield-96 Arduino Shield – Featuring a 4D Systems µOLED-96-G2

3.1.

The 4Display-Shield-96 is an Arduino Shield featuring a 4D Systems µOLED-96-G2 display module, and a

joystick for a user interface.

The 4Display-Shield-96 provides a simple serial interface between the Arduino platform and the 4D Systems

display, allowing rapid hardware prototyping and development.

Programming the 4Display-Shield-96 with the 4D Systems Workshop 4 Software is required to get started, and

there the user can choose the programming environment to use.

Workshop 4 provides the user with 3 programming environments, to give the freedom of choice for how the

display module will be configured.

Please refer to the Datasheet of the µOLED-96-G2 display module for further information, available from the

4D Systems website, www.4dsystems.com.au

The Designer environment of the 4D Systems Workshop 4 software, enables the full display power of the

µOLED-96-G2 display module to be harnessed. This is where 4DGL logic is written in its natural form, and

enables the user to make this 4Display-Shield into a controller, along with simply being a display to the

Arduino. Please refer to the “4DGL-Programmers-Reference-Manual.pdf” and “GOLDELOX-4DGL-Internal-

Functions.pdf” documents for more information on the 4DGL programming language.

The ViSi environment enables a visual programming experience for the user to quickly create a display using

drag-and-drop objects. The user can simply lay the objects on the display and generate 4DGL code

automatically for those objects. The user then manipulates this code the 4DGL codespace to further configure

based on the users application requirements. This environment allows the user to immediately see what the

display will look like once programmed.

The Serial environment enables the display to turn into a slave serial display, allowing all development to be

done in the Arduino IDE. Writing commands from the Arduino and sending them over the Serial port, will

enable the user to draw primitives, text, play video, animations and much more. This is the most common

environment used for Arduino users. Please refer to the “Workshop-4-IDE-User-Manual.pdf” documentation

for futher information on the commands available.