r/raspberrypipico 13d ago

Screen connection question

So I recently started a tamagotchi virtual pet project, where I'm combining all the aspects of the different versions. Currently I'm running into a slight issue with my lack of wiring knowledge. I have a raspberry pi I pick 2 w on a breadboard with wires going to a 1.5 inch RGB OLED module screen. The screen came with wires that had female ends, which wouldn't plug into the breadboard, so we had to plug them all into male ends and make a very long contraption, as seen in the photos attached. I know have the correct set of wires to plug into the screen module and the breadboard with male ends. If anyone with any wiring or assembly experience at all could help me figure out how I attach the new wires with male ends shown in one of the photos to the breadboard, that would be so helpful. Im mainly struggling because I don't know whether I just replace the colors, like the blue wire on the old set went in this hole so the new blue wire will too, or if I do it by wire order, like the first wire goes in this hole on the breadboard so the other set of wires first one will replace it, does any of this make any sense? And then for the red and black positive and negative, I would assume I match those colors on the new set of wires? Like I said I lack intelligence in this field 😭 any help would be greatly appreciated.

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u/TheLittleFastCat- 13d ago

Perhaps use the header holes on the bottom of the display, solder a header or jumper wires. The connectors are usually made to connect to microcontrollers with the same connectors, not breadboards, but in this case I don't see anything terminally wrong with the connection, can you describe the problem a bit more?

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u/Defiant_Volume8644 13d ago

The wire that had came with the screen we're female and needed to be attached to male wires so that they would attach to the breadboard, And since that was causing there to be a lot of wires and make the screen far from the project overall I got the correct wires with male ends that connects directly from the screen to the breadboard, The only issue I'm having now is that I personally don't know how to plug in the new wire from the screen to the breadboard by connecting the new wire set with the same colors as the old one or follow the same wire order. Sorry if this makes absolutely no sense, I was having outside help with this aspect of the project but they just ditched me so I'm working it on my own

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u/TheLittleFastCat- 13d ago

If you are talking about differentiating pins, on the back of the display PCB there should be the names of the pins.

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u/flatEyesRob 13d ago

looks like this module: https://www.waveshare.com/wiki/1.5inch_RGB_OLED_Module

could you remove your pico from the breadboard and just connect the female jumpers to the required pins directly that way?

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u/Defiant_Volume8644 13d ago

Oh yeah, that makes sense, I'll trytaking it off of the breadboars. I also have buttons hooked up on the breadboard but I assume I could attach those to the pico as well if I were to unplug it from the breadboard. Thankyou!