Installation

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Pinguin has the following prerequisites:

  • Autodesk EAGLE PCB design software. If reading this guide, you’re likely already a user… but if not, a limited free version is available for Windows, Mac and Linux.
  • A recent (3.X) version of Python…a standard feature on many systems now (e.g. macOS includes Python 3.7). Type python -V from a command prompt and see what you get. If not present, visit Python.org for installation help.
  • The Pillow graphics library. This might already be installed with Python, or you can type:
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pip install pillow

(may require “pip3” or capitalized “Pillow”, but that’s the basic idea.)

The Pinguin software can be retrieved either via git if you have that installed:

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git clone https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_Pinguin

…or by downloading and uncompressing the ZIP archive from GitHub:

You’ll have a folder, Adafruit_Pinguin, containing the pinguin.py Python script and a fonts subdirectory.

 Overview Using Pinguin 

This guide was first published on Sep 18, 2022. It was last updated on Sep 18, 2022.

This page (Installation) was last updated on Sep 18, 2022.

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