I am wanting to create a setup which is essentially timer/stopwatch, with small display, a couple of buttons (to start, stop, pause, restart), while writing files to an SD of the times.
I have achieved this with a pico and the pico OLED 1.3 and love it but that doesn’t have the SD card writing. I am also planning on printing a case, including depressible button caps, but I think the size of the screen and buttons on the OLED 1.3 is going to be a bit tight.
I’m now wondering if I can make it all a little cleaner and not have the pre-connected display/button setup of the OLED 1.3. Essentially something like this is what I was envisioning.
My only hang up is I would like to avoid soldering, hence why I went for the pre-soldered Pico and OLED 1.3 in the first place.
Am I wanting too much without having to solder things myself, or does there exist some kind of Zero (for SD card) + display + button product combination that hits all my criteria?
There are usually enough HATs for the Pi to get around most, if not all of the soldering with the Pi.
If soldering is out of the question, than probably something like the Adafruit 128x64 OLED with buttons or the Pimoroni GFX HAT with touch buttons would work. Both of them are compatible with the Zero and come with buttons. They are both a bit smaller however.
Probably your best option is the Display HAT Mini which comes with four buttons on a 320 by 240 pixel display. It’s still small, see image below of it on the back of the Zero for reference, but its probably the best option if you want the buttons as well.
That’s awesome, thank you so much. I was looking at the Adafruit OLED but hadn’t seen those other two (wasn’t super keen on the joystick for this project).
