A little fun with displays and Micropython

[Chris Savage]

So your moving to Tennessee? that would be cool. Nashville is booming its one of the fastest growing regions in the country. 

Tennessee? My sister use to live in Nashville, but she didn't stick around. I'm not sure why. She said the same thing to me before she moved there, convincing me to move there. This is when I was travelling in my RV. But she didn't stay, so I ended up not going there to visit and check stuff out.

I'm in NY. I'm moving 30 minutes from here onto some farm land from my wife's farm. We're subdividing a one acre lot for us to live on. My new office will be two of the three extra bedrooms. She gets the other.

As for the code, as I save the examples you posted, I will save those as V1.0 so that as I make changes, I can track them.

[Jeff_T]

Chris I have a video that gives a demo of converting a bmp to a binary file for use with microcontrollers and tft displays, the demo uses python but the resulting file could be used with any programming language that you wanted.

If you think it's useful I can post the bmp to bin sketch.

At the end of the video the image is displayed on a 1.8 inch display with a ST7735 driver chip, I will modify the code in my original post of this thread to fall in line with this demonstration video.

[Chris Savage]

A little while ago I bought a TFT display from Waveshare for use with a BBC microbit microcontroller. The display was based on the ST7735 driver.

I'm at work, so I didn't take the time to investigate, but would this be the same display I bought in that kit recently?

[Jeff_T]

@Chris Savage , no the displays with the ST7735 that I have are 1.8 inch, I think they are a great balance of readability, update speed and size.

On the other hand the display from the dev kit is a monster in comparison, whether it's the 7 or the 10 inch you are going to love it.

[Chris Savage]

the other hand the display from the dev kit is a monster in comparison, whether it's the 7 or the 10 inch you are going to love it.

Yeah, I got the 10" one...whenever it arrives...