Raspberry Pi Pico Animations on OLED displays using CircuitPython 

Good work. Back in 2017 I learned how to display bitmap image on Nokia lcd from your tutorials.

Your circuit Python videos are great!

Yasou Nick! Summers in Kim’s, Evian😁 Great video. I joined your other channel too. Looking forward to more videos.

Brilliant - as always. Thanks!!

Great find Great video as always Thanks for sharing your experiences with all of us 🙂

Great stuff. Love what you are doing with CIrcuitPython.

You are such a cool guy doing great videos! Muchas Gracias Thank You.

Great, I am using micropython and i cannot upload bmp file, do i have to switch to circuit python for this feature?

Is there a faster way to display gifs? the animation playback is quite slow this way. When i was using micropython i was able to play at 60fps by using blit with individual frames

Have you had any luck connecting multiple oleds to a pico ?

Good video

Good video😉

Hi Nick, thank you for making amazing training material. I have a question about little project i'm doing. The project has two buttons and a 12v LED strip. One button press needs to start LEDs flash then when the button is pressed again LEDs to stop. Second button when pressed LEDs will start flashing then stop on its own after few seconds. How can I go about doing that? I don't have your email so wrote it here if that ok :) I'm useing FastLED library and this is my code without buttons (not sure how to make add buttons to make the above operation) : #include #define NUM_LEDS 60 #define LED_PIN 6 CRGB leds[NUM_LEDS]; void setup() { FastLED.addLeds(leds, NUM_LEDS); FastLED.setBrightness(1); } void loop() { // Turn the LED on, then pause fill_solid( leds, NUM_LEDS, CRGB( 255, 255, 255 ) ); FastLED.show(); delay(20); fill_solid( leds, NUM_LEDS, CRGB( 0, 0, 0 ) ); FastLED.show(); delay(200); } Sorry if this is a wrong place to post. Don't have your email. Thank you :)

If you take out the micro usb will the animation run independently with a separate power source

Will you make tutorial for micropython too? I recently bought ESP32 and flashed bootloader to use micropython. I wonder if this will work with this OLED too.

Do you think i can do the same if I have Feather RP2040 board and ST7789 TFT 1.47" display? I have been trying to make Mini gif player with the guide, but couldn't get it to work. So right now I'm trying yours project.

RuntimeError: No pull up found on SDA or SCL; check your wiring 😢

I'm trying code with Pi Pico, circuit python, screen nokia 5110 with adafuit_pcd5844 but it's not run yet. Please help: run_action.bmp (1bit depth, 84x48 pixel, x 25 fp) # import board, busio, displayio, time import digitalio import adafruit_pcd8544 import adafruit_imageload image, palette = adafruit_imageload.load( "run_action.bmp", bitmap=displayio.Bitmap, palette=displayio.Palette ) tile_grid = displayio.TileGrid(image, pixel_shader=palette) IMAGE_FILE = "run_action.bmp" SPRITE_SIZE = (84, 48) FRAMES = 25 def invert_colors(): temp = icon_pal[0] icon_pal[0] = icon_pal[1] icon_pal[1] = temp displayio.release_displays() mosi_pin = board.GP11 clk_pin = board.GP10 spi = busio.SPI(clock=clk_pin, MOSI=mosi_pin) dc = digitalio.DigitalInOut(board.GP16) # data/command cs = digitalio.DigitalInOut(board.GP18) # Chip select reset = digitalio.DigitalInOut(board.GP17) # reset display = adafruit_pcd8544.PCD8544(spi, dc, cs, reset) display.bias = 5 display.contrast = 8 icon_bit, icon_pal = adafruit_imageload.load(IMAGE_FILE, bitmap=displayio.Bitmap, palette=displayio.Palette) invert_colors() icon_grid = displayio.TileGrid(icon_bit, pixel_shader=icon_pal, width=1, height=1, tile_height=SPRITE_SIZE[1], tile_width=SPRITE_SIZE[0], default_tile=0, x=48, y=0) group = displayio.Group() group.append(icon_grid) display.show() timer = 0 pointer = 0 while True: if (timer + 0.1) < time.monotonic(): icon_grid[0] = pointer pointer += 1 timer = time.monotonic() if pointer > FRAMES-1: pointer = 0