Have you wanted to play animated Gifs on the Raspberry Pi without showing or taking over the entire desktop? Or maybe you are only wanting to SSH into the Pi and play some kind of animation without the fancy graphical environment. Or possibly, you just want to know how to play animated Gifs with Python and the Pillow library. If so, this is the guide for you.
This is an animated Gif player that runs on the Raspberry Pi and uses a PiTFT Display. It works kind of like a Slideshow player, but displays animated Gifs instead. Because this is written in pure Python, it won't quite be as speedy as a C-based player, but the smaller the resolution of display that you use, the better the performance.
To get started, you will need a Raspberry Pi. A Raspberry Pi 4 is recommended because it's pretty fast.
You will also need a PiTFT to display the images. We recommend these smaller Mini PiTFT's since we can write to the display fairly fast.
You could use larger 320x240 ones too for slower images.
You can also get the PiTFT in 3.2" or 2.4", but they don't come with buttons, so you'll want to pick up some of those so you can scroll.
Of course you'll need a power supply for your Pi.
You may want a case for your Pi.
If you have a case, these little header extensions are really useful.
