The code for this project is written in Arduino, but you will use the CIRCUITPY drive filesystem to store your GIF images on the Feather RP2040.
Once you've finished setting up your Feather RP2040 with CircuitPython, plug your Feather RP2040 into the computer's USB port with a known good USB data+power cable. You should see a new flash drive appear in the computer's File Explorer or Finder (depending on your operating system) called CIRCUITPY. You can drag and drop your GIF image files onto the CIRCUITPY drive.
You can download some Adafruit-themed GIFs below. There are versions sized for both the 1.4" and 1.9" displays.
After copying your GIF files, follow the steps for using the Feather RP2040 with the Arduino IDE. When your Arduino IDE is setup and working with the Feather RP2040, download the code file and open it in the Arduino IDE.
// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Limor Fried for Adafruit Industries // // SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT #include <AnimatedGIF.h> #include <SdFat.h> #include <Adafruit_SPIFlash.h> #include <Adafruit_GFX.h> #include <Adafruit_ST7735.h> // Hardware-specific library for ST7735 #include <Adafruit_ST7789.h> // Hardware-specific library for ST7789 #define TFT_CS 7 #define TFT_DC 8 #define TFT_RST 9 #define DISPLAY_WIDTH 320 #define DISPLAY_HEIGHT 174 #define GIFDIRNAME "/" #define NUM_LOOPS 5 #if defined(ARDUINO_ARCH_ESP32) // ESP32 use same flash device that store code. // Therefore there is no need to specify the SPI and SS Adafruit_FlashTransport_ESP32 flashTransport; #elif defined(ARDUINO_ARCH_RP2040) // RP2040 use same flash device that store code for file system. Therefore we // only need to specify start address and size (no need SPI or SS) // By default (start=0, size=0), values that match file system setting in // 'Tools->Flash Size' menu selection will be used. // Adafruit_FlashTransport_RP2040 flashTransport; // To be compatible with CircuitPython partition scheme (start_address = 1 MB, // size = total flash - 1 MB) use const value (CPY_START_ADDR, CPY_SIZE) or // subclass Adafruit_FlashTransport_RP2040_CPY. Un-comment either of the // following line: // Adafruit_FlashTransport_RP2040 // flashTransport(Adafruit_FlashTransport_RP2040::CPY_START_ADDR, // Adafruit_FlashTransport_RP2040::CPY_SIZE); Adafruit_FlashTransport_RP2040_CPY flashTransport; #else // On-board external flash (QSPI or SPI) macros should already // defined in your board variant if supported // - EXTERNAL_FLASH_USE_QSPI // - EXTERNAL_FLASH_USE_CS/EXTERNAL_FLASH_USE_SPI #if defined(EXTERNAL_FLASH_USE_QSPI) Adafruit_FlashTransport_QSPI flashTransport; #elif defined(EXTERNAL_FLASH_USE_SPI) Adafruit_FlashTransport_SPI flashTransport(EXTERNAL_FLASH_USE_CS, EXTERNAL_FLASH_USE_SPI); #else #error No QSPI/SPI flash are defined on your board variant.h ! #endif #endif Adafruit_SPIFlash flash(&flashTransport); // file system object from SdFat FatFileSystem fatfs; Adafruit_ST7789 tft = Adafruit_ST7789(TFT_CS, TFT_DC, TFT_RST); AnimatedGIF gif; File32 f, root; void * GIFOpenFile(const char *fname, int32_t *pSize) { f = fatfs.open(fname); if (f) { *pSize = f.size(); return (void *)&f; } return NULL; } /* GIFOpenFile() */ void GIFCloseFile(void *pHandle) { File32 *f = static_cast<File32 *>(pHandle); if (f != NULL) f->close(); } /* GIFCloseFile() */ int32_t GIFReadFile(GIFFILE *pFile, uint8_t *pBuf, int32_t iLen) { int32_t iBytesRead; iBytesRead = iLen; File32 *f = static_cast<File32 *>(pFile->fHandle); // Note: If you read a file all the way to the last byte, seek() stops working if ((pFile->iSize - pFile->iPos) < iLen) iBytesRead = pFile->iSize - pFile->iPos - 1; // <-- ugly work-around if (iBytesRead <= 0) return 0; iBytesRead = (int32_t)f->read(pBuf, iBytesRead); pFile->iPos = f->position(); return iBytesRead; } /* GIFReadFile() */ int32_t GIFSeekFile(GIFFILE *pFile, int32_t iPosition) { int i = micros(); File32 *f = static_cast<File32 *>(pFile->fHandle); f->seek(iPosition); pFile->iPos = (int32_t)f->position(); i = micros() - i; // Serial.printf("Seek time = %d us\n", i); return pFile->iPos; } /* GIFSeekFile() */ // Draw a line of image directly on the LCD void GIFDraw(GIFDRAW *pDraw) { uint8_t *s; uint16_t *d, *usPalette, usTemp[320]; int x, y, iWidth; iWidth = pDraw->iWidth; // Serial.printf("Drawing %d pixels\n", iWidth); if (iWidth + pDraw->iX > DISPLAY_WIDTH) iWidth = DISPLAY_WIDTH - pDraw->iX; usPalette = pDraw->pPalette; y = pDraw->iY + pDraw->y; // current line if (y >= DISPLAY_HEIGHT || pDraw->iX >= DISPLAY_WIDTH || iWidth < 1) return; s = pDraw->pPixels; if (pDraw->ucDisposalMethod == 2) // restore to background color { for (x=0; x<iWidth; x++) { if (s[x] == pDraw->ucTransparent) s[x] = pDraw->ucBackground; } pDraw->ucHasTransparency = 0; } // Apply the new pixels to the main image if (pDraw->ucHasTransparency) // if transparency used { uint8_t *pEnd, c, ucTransparent = pDraw->ucTransparent; int x, iCount; pEnd = s + iWidth; x = 0; iCount = 0; // count non-transparent pixels while(x < iWidth) { c = ucTransparent-1; d = usTemp; while (c != ucTransparent && s < pEnd) { c = *s++; if (c == ucTransparent) // done, stop { s--; // back up to treat it like transparent } else // opaque { *d++ = usPalette[c]; iCount++; } } // while looking for opaque pixels if (iCount) // any opaque pixels? { tft.startWrite(); tft.setAddrWindow(pDraw->iX+x, y, iCount, 1); tft.writePixels(usTemp, iCount, false, false); tft.endWrite(); x += iCount; iCount = 0; } // no, look for a run of transparent pixels c = ucTransparent; while (c == ucTransparent && s < pEnd) { c = *s++; if (c == ucTransparent) iCount++; else s--; } if (iCount) { x += iCount; // skip these iCount = 0; } } } else { s = pDraw->pPixels; // Translate the 8-bit pixels through the RGB565 palette (already byte reversed) for (x=0; x<iWidth; x++) usTemp[x] = usPalette[*s++]; tft.startWrite(); tft.setAddrWindow(pDraw->iX, y, iWidth, 1); tft.writePixels(usTemp, iWidth, false, false); tft.endWrite(); } } /* GIFDraw() */ void setup() { Serial.begin(115200); while (!Serial); Serial.println("Adafruit SPIFlash Animated GIF Example"); // Initialize flash library and check its chip ID. if (!flash.begin()) { Serial.println("Error, failed to initialize flash chip!"); while(1); } Serial.print("Flash chip JEDEC ID: 0x"); Serial.println(flash.getJEDECID(), HEX); // First call begin to mount the filesystem. Check that it returns true // to make sure the filesystem was mounted. if (!fatfs.begin(&flash)) { Serial.println("Failed to mount filesystem!"); Serial.println("Was CircuitPython loaded on the board first to create the filesystem?"); while(1); } Serial.println("Mounted filesystem!"); if (!root.open(GIFDIRNAME)) { Serial.println("Open dir failed"); } while (f.openNext(&root, O_RDONLY)) { f.printFileSize(&Serial); Serial.write(' '); f.printModifyDateTime(&Serial); Serial.write(' '); f.printName(&Serial); if (f.isDir()) { // Indicate a directory. Serial.write('/'); } Serial.println(); f.close(); } root.close(); tft.init(DISPLAY_HEIGHT, DISPLAY_WIDTH); tft.fillScreen(ST77XX_BLUE); tft.setRotation(1); gif.begin(LITTLE_ENDIAN_PIXELS); } void loop() { char thefilename[80]; if (!root.open(GIFDIRNAME)) { Serial.println("Open GIF directory failed"); while (1); } while (f.openNext(&root, O_RDONLY)) { f.printFileSize(&Serial); Serial.write(' '); f.printModifyDateTime(&Serial); Serial.write(' '); f.printName(&Serial); if (f.isDir()) { // Indicate a directory. Serial.write('/'); } Serial.println(); f.getName(thefilename, sizeof(thefilename)-1); f.close(); if (strstr(thefilename, ".gif") || strstr(thefilename, ".GIF")) { // found a gif mebe! if (gif.open(thefilename, GIFOpenFile, GIFCloseFile, GIFReadFile, GIFSeekFile, GIFDraw)) { GIFINFO gi; Serial.printf("Successfully opened GIF %s; Canvas size = %d x %d\n", thefilename, gif.getCanvasWidth(), gif.getCanvasHeight()); if (gif.getInfo(&gi)) { Serial.printf("frame count: %d\n", gi.iFrameCount); Serial.printf("duration: %d ms\n", gi.iDuration); Serial.printf("max delay: %d ms\n", gi.iMaxDelay); Serial.printf("min delay: %d ms\n", gi.iMinDelay); } // play thru n times for (int loops=0; loops<NUM_LOOPS; loops++) { while (gif.playFrame(true, NULL)); gif.reset(); } gif.close(); } else { Serial.printf("Error opening file %s = %d\n", thefilename, gif.getLastError()); } } } root.close(); }
Plug your Feather RP2040 into the computer's USB port with a known good USB data+power cable and upload the code with the Arduino IDE. After the code finishes uploading, you should see your GIFs playing on your screen.
You can change the TFT's pin numbers depending on how you have wired the screen to your board.
#define TFT_CS 7 #define TFT_DC 8 #define TFT_RST 9
You can change the DISPLAY_WIDTH
and DISPLAY_HEIGHT
to match your display's dimensions.
#define DISPLAY_WIDTH 320 #define DISPLAY_HEIGHT 174
By default, all of the GIF's that are loaded onto the Feather RP2040's main directory will play, looping five times each. If you only want one GIF to play, then you can edit the GIFDIRNAME
to point to a specific file or folder rather than the main directory. If you want to change the number of times that a GIF loops, edit the NUM_LOOPS
variable.
#define GIFDIRNAME "/" #define NUM_LOOPS 5
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