{"id":12733,"date":"2015-06-10T10:06:44","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T09:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12733"},"modified":"2015-06-10T07:14:26","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T06:14:26","slug":"create-images-for-the-raspberry-pi-astropi-hat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12733","title":{"rendered":"Create images for the Raspberry Pi AstroPi HAT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-52L6XCz574U\/VXS32dVSJUI\/AAAAAAAAEWE\/CZT2-UCyxqk\/s320\/draw.png?resize=304%2C320\" alt=\"\" width=\"304\" height=\"320\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/richardhayler.blogspot.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Hayler<\/a> and his Code Club\u00a0are currently experimenting with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raspberrypi.org\/astro-pi\/\" target=\"_blank\">AstroPi board<\/a>\u00a0and were fascinated by the way you can display scrolling text and images on the 8&#215;8 matrix display. Richard has created a little Python\/Pygame app that will allow you to create an 8&#215;8 image and then export it as a PNG or as a Python-ready list that can be pushed to the matrix. <a href=\"http:\/\/richardhayler.blogspot.co.uk\/2015\/06\/creating-images-for-astro-pi-hat.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more here<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/topshed\/AstroPiGridDraw\" target=\"_blank\">download the code from Github here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Hayler and his Code Club\u00a0are currently experimenting with the AstroPi board\u00a0and were fascinated by the way you can display scrolling text and images on the 8&#215;8 matrix display. Richard has created a little Python\/Pygame app that will allow you&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12733\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gpio-boards","category-software"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Create images for the Raspberry Pi AstroPi HAT - Raspberry Pi Pod<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12733\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Create images for the Raspberry Pi AstroPi HAT - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Richard Hayler and his Code Club\u00a0are currently experimenting with the AstroPi board\u00a0and were fascinated by the way you can display scrolling text and images on the 8&#215;8 matrix display. 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