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:
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:
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.