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Blimey, for a device that is supposed to be THE GREATEST IOT DEVICE EVER, what crap! I have discovered that you can use the generic I2C OLED Displays BUT! So there is no point paying $15 for the OLED Expansion when you can get the displays for $3 Problems... Unable to set screen orientation and as with the official board the text is tiny and cant be made bigger Even a basic Arduino board can do better.

Hello Garling, what about making a simple web page and use a server side technology to interface to the GPIO? You could use Python or PHP. If you don't know these languages, they are interesting to learn. I like Python the most because you can do much more than just server side scripting. You could also learn more about HTML/CSS/Javascript. An example project would be to make a webpage that display a schedule that you can apply to the output pin you want. You could plug a relay board (inexpensive on ebay) to the Omega and turn on/off lights in your home/backyard or stuff like that. With your OLED display, what about making a dashboard that can display your twitter timeline, check if you have any unread emails or other notification, or just simply display the local weather? It is a small Linux computer, there is a lot you can do. Lots of language to learn.