Bit\map Images on Pico Explorer Board

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Hello to anyone who’s listening!

I would like to use a prewritten script that will allow me to put an indexed BMP file and display it on a Raspberry Pi Pico using a Pimoroni Explorer Base board. The image doesn’t have to be complicated, but I need to know where to store the image, on the pico, how to access it, and how to send it to the display.

I would like to be able to do this in CircuitPython or in MicroPython or even possibly in both. I have tried watching the tutorials from Adafruit, and other places on the Internet, but I seem to get lost.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you for your time in this matter, Dick Burkhartzmeyer

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First let me say ,I know nuttin… but a google search shows for me its outside of my brainwaves … this is using Display and not the Pico explorer board Images and Animations on Raspberry Pi Pico Display pack (PNG / bitmap files) - YouTube

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Thank you very much for that information. Not sure I’m up to it but I’ll give it a try. Always something new to learn!
Dick Burkhartzmeyer

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I do believe they use the same driver chip. And the pinouts for each are on their respective shop page. I would think you could edit one for the other? Take your time, trial and error etc. If it was me it would be lots of errors, lol.

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Thank you for the information, I will try just about anything. Dick

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I have a Display Pack, I haven’t done the above with it though. Might give it a go over the weekend. Also just ordered an Explorer Pack for my PICO, and a couple more PICO’s. It will be a while before I see those, I cheeped out and used the snail mail shipping option.