DIY Basic nonfunctional after flashing - no OLED, intermittent wifi

I’ve soldered the DIY basic kit using the guide and Jeff Geerling’s video. Uploading the blink sketch worked, but uploading the DIY_BASIC sketch doesn’t work, version 1.8.19. It uploads, and the light blinks repeatedly, but the OLED doesn’t turn on. I was able to connect to the wifi once, but went back to get the serial number, and have been unable to reconnect to wifi again since, even after re-uploading the sketch.

. Variables and constants in RAM (global, static), used 32240 / 80192 bytes (40%)
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╠══ DATA 1512 initialized variables
╠══ RODATA 3656 constants
╚══ BSS 27072 zeroed variables
. Instruction RAM (IRAM_ATTR, ICACHE_RAM_ATTR), used 62675 / 65536 bytes (95%)
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╠══ ICACHE 32768 reserved space for flash instruction cache
╚══ IRAM 29907 code in IRAM
. Code in flash (default, ICACHE_FLASH_ATTR), used 340948 / 1048576 bytes (32%)
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╚══ IROM 340948 code in flash
esptool.py v3.0
Serial port /dev/cu.usbserial-310
Connecting…
Chip is ESP8266EX
Features: WiFi
Crystal is 26MHz
MAC: 48:55:19:12:02:2b
Uploading stub…
Running stub…
Stub running…
Changing baud rate to 460800
Changed.
Configuring flash size…
Auto-detected Flash size: 4MB
Compressed 380176 bytes to 269710…
Writing at 0x00000000… (5 %)
Writing at 0x00004000… (11 %)
Writing at 0x00008000… (17 %)
Writing at 0x0000c000… (23 %)
Writing at 0x00010000… (29 %)
Writing at 0x00014000… (35 %)
Writing at 0x00018000… (41 %)
Writing at 0x0001c000… (47 %)
Writing at 0x00020000… (52 %)
Writing at 0x00024000… (58 %)
Writing at 0x00028000… (64 %)
Writing at 0x0002c000… (70 %)
Writing at 0x00030000… (76 %)
Writing at 0x00034000… (82 %)
Writing at 0x00038000… (88 %)
Writing at 0x0003c000… (94 %)
Writing at 0x00040000… (100 %)
Wrote 380176 bytes (269710 compressed) at 0x00000000 in 7.0 seconds (effective 434.1 kbit/s)…
Hash of data verified.

Leaving…
Hard resetting via RTS pin…

Please post some pictures of your built so that I can see if something has been connected wrongly.

There you go.

Can you run an i2c scan and see if it detects the address of the display?

Also when you re upload the sketch you need to explicitly set that it erases the partition with the WiFi password.

Otherwise it will not open again the hotspot.

How do I run that scan? I’m new to all this.

On the Arduino library you can install a library called “I2C Scanner by Luis Liamas” and then open the example sketch called “Scanner”. This should give you all the address on the i2c bus. Please post your results.

I am having a similar issue and I ran the scanner but resulted it “no I2C devices found”. I got a friend to doublecheck my soldering and it seems fine.