{"id":20898,"date":"2021-03-03T17:21:04","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T16:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=20898"},"modified":"2021-03-03T17:21:04","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T16:21:04","slug":"your-horse-runs-like-the-wind-with-this-raspberry-pi-pico-driven-animation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=20898","title":{"rendered":"Your horse runs like the wind with this Raspberry Pi Pico-driven animation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20899\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/The_Horse_in_Motion_high_res.jpg?resize=560%2C345&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/The_Horse_in_Motion_high_res.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/The_Horse_in_Motion_high_res.jpg?resize=300%2C185&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/The_Horse_in_Motion_high_res.jpg?resize=1024%2C631&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/The_Horse_in_Motion_high_res.jpg?resize=768%2C474&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/The_Horse_in_Motion_high_res.jpg?resize=1536%2C947&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/The_Horse_in_Motion_high_res.jpg?resize=560%2C345&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/The_Horse_in_Motion_high_res.jpg?resize=260%2C160&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/The_Horse_in_Motion_high_res.jpg?resize=160%2C99&amp;ssl=1 160w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/The_Horse_in_Motion_high_res.jpg?w=1120&amp;ssl=1 1120w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/The_Horse_in_Motion_high_res.jpg?w=1680&amp;ssl=1 1680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hari Wiguna has taken a Raspberry Pi Pico and a small SSD1306 OLED display and created a lovely animation project. It features the stop-motion frames from the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Horse_in_Motion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">galloping horse animation cards<\/a> by <a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eadweard_Muybridge\">Eadweard Muybridge<\/a> and uses CircuitPython to do the animation. You can see it in action below and <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/hwiguna\/HariFun_199_Galloping_Horse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">see the code on GitHub<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Adafruit for spotting this one.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"HariFun #199 - Galloping Horse on Pi Pico using CircuitPython\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cm2Fz9WTL1A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hari Wiguna has taken a Raspberry Pi Pico and a small SSD1306 OLED display and created a lovely animation project. 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