Now I wanted to make use of this display with a PI Pico and Micropython. Pimoroni provide a Micropython release with a small number additional libraries on top of MicroPython :https://github.com/pimoroni/pimoroni-pico(unlike CircuitPython which is significantly different from Micro...
Pinout can be changed, but you need to make changes toCMakeList.txt(e.g.OUTPUT_DATA_PIN/OUTPUT_SPI_DATA_PIN/OUTPUT_SPI_CLOCK_PIN) and recompile the project. Also multi-segment mode can be enabled in this file:SECOND_SEGMENT_INDEXoption at the beginning and optionallySECOND_SEGMENT_REVERSED...
Also the arrangement of the leds as the same as the corresponding GPIO in the header and the silkscreen is naming all of them in a quite readable way. This is a really handy feature, as I can't remember the pinout of the raspi-GPIO's. ...
For my first I based it from my test setup which used jumper wires but to make it easier to follow I've mapped the pinout to the cable. The cable is shown looking into the pins with the wires then numbered from 1 to 16 starting with the red wire. Below is a video showing how I...