You must have the adafruit_display_text library folder in your circuitpy lib folder for these examples to work.
How does the display.io library work in circuit python? Read more here
Example: Hello World
Example 2: Large text in a text area box
Example 3: Scrolling Text (note: long text and images will scroll slowly due to processing limitations)
Example 4: Add an image and text to the screen
(add this image to your circuitpy drive) + (online bmp image converter) recommended size 200 (width) x 135 (height)
Challenges:
Make a digital name tag
Make your name tag change names (and color!) every 5 seconds
Create a seconds counter that counts up or down toward something (ex: seconds to the end of class)
Have the screen display a random message or at least two random words from a list.
Can you figure out how to upload and display your own image?
Have two images play back to back so it looks like an animation