So I'm waiting for the damn OLED display to be in stock in local distributors, which seems quite difficult to achieve over here.
In the mean-time I've played a bit with my Teensy 3.1 which was gathering dust at work. I was considering using NuttX RTOS as the base code for the device, however some basic functionality is not supported (mainly the RTC code). So, instead of over-complicating things, I will simply use the teensyduino IDE (Arduino IDE with Teensy support) until I really need something more complex (I'm abiding to KISS here, as an anti-procrastination measure).
My first goal is to be able to play with the OLED display in terms of interface design. After playing a bit with a simple smartwatch (which, co-incidentally has an OLED screen, but half size than the one I'm looking for) on my bike I've found some aspects I'm interested in:
- The screen should stay on. Seems obvious, but my smart(dumb)watch requires a key-press and will stay on for up to 15 seconds
- The screen should accommodate sufficient info all at once. My smartwatch (and other cheap bicycle computers, from what I've seen) requires key-presses to change screens (distance, time, speed, etc.). I would like to design a simple and informative screen which should accommodate things like speed as a gauge bar (I don't think reading a number makes sense here), distance as a small number (you don't need to read this while driving very fast), battery as a small icon, elapsed and current time, etc.
After I manage to find the OLED and this seems feasible, I will try to build a first version reading a standard magnetic sensor and having a LiPo battery + charger. Hopefully this should not take much more time.
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