Tutorial on the Pimoroni Pico Display -Part 1 

Nice job getting me started with graphics on the Pico! Well explained. It'll be at least a week before I actually get to programming, but now I know the steps involved, so thanks a big bunch o' somethin'. (Whatever ya like!) 'scribed! 👍👍 I'll be watching for more!

a couple of months ago i had to learn all this things through trial and error, it's great to see a video explaining the functions, i will make sure to see this video again any time i need to use the screen again

Just bought a Pimoroni Display Pack 2 so your tutorial was very useful to cover the library functions. Great little display.

Thank you, Chris, for producing such high quality content. I think I've watched all of your pico series videos. I noticed that you held up your production time sychronization device. It appeared to have a nice robust casing. I'm planning to build a few devices for some in-class actvities for my students. This display seems great for that. Can you kindly tell me what case you use and whether or not you think it will stand up to alot of use, passing around, dropping, etc. -best regards, Darin

Vielen Dank für diese Ausführliche Anleitung. Hat mir doch sehr geholfen :)

Thanks Chris for a great in depth tutorial. I’m trying to output to the pico onboard led and then eventually to other gpio at the same time the button is pressed but I’m not having only luck. Do you have a tutorial on this sort of thing Nick

great job Chris!

Just a quick issue on you code. For the animation you use: display.text("STOP!!", 150,60, angle = 20) but you show that it is flat. If I use that code with any of the vector fonts it does not show all of the word. If I just change it to: display.text("STOP!!", 150,60) It will work as you show.

Thank You

Hi Chris ,here is my modified code from machine import Pin, Timer import time import utime from pimoroni import Button from picographics import PicoGraphics, DISPLAY_PICO_DISPLAY_2, PEN_P4 from pimoroni import RGBLED led1_Pin =Pin(25,Pin.OUT) #output to onboard led hopefully # We're only using a few colours so we can use a 4 bit/16 colour palette and save RAM! display = PicoGraphics(display=DISPLAY_PICO_DISPLAY_2, pen_type=PEN_P4, rotate=0) display.set_backlight(0.5) display.set_font("bitmap8") led = RGBLED(6,7,8) led1_Pin = Pin(25,Pin.OUT) #onboard led timer = Timer() def blink(timer): led1.toggle() button_a = Button(12) button_b = Button(13) button_x = Button(14) button_y = Button(15) WHITE = display.create_pen(255, 255, 255) BLACK = display.create_pen(0, 0, 0) CYAN = display.create_pen(0, 255, 255) MAGENTA = display.create_pen(255, 0, 255) YELLOW = display.create_pen(255, 255, 0) GREEN = display.create_pen(0, 255, 0) # sets up a handy function we can call to clear the screen def clear(): display.set_pen(BLACK) display.clear() display.update() # set up clear() while True: if button_a.read(): # if a button press is detected then... clear() # clear to black display.set_pen(WHITE) # change the pen colour display.text("Button A pressed", 10, 10, 240, 4) # display some text on the screen display.update() # update the display led.set_rgb(255,255,255) led1_Pin.value(1) # onboard led led1_Pin.toggle() # onboard led time.sleep(1) # pause for a sec clear() # clear to black again elif button_b.read(): clear() display.set_pen(CYAN) display.text("Button B pressed", 10, 10, 240, 4) display.update() led.set_rgb(0,255,255) time.sleep(1) clear() elif button_x.read(): clear() display.set_pen(MAGENTA) display.text("Button X pressed", 10, 10, 240, 4) display.update() led.set_rgb(255,0,255) time.sleep(1) clear() elif button_y.read(): clear() display.set_pen(YELLOW) display.text("Button Y pressed", 10, 10, 240, 4) display.update() led.set_rgb(255,255,0) time.sleep(1) clear() else: display.set_pen(GREEN) display.text("Press any button!", 10, 10, 240, 4) display.update() led.set_rgb(0,255,0) time.sleep(0.1) # this number is how frequently the Pico checks for button presses Cheers Nick