import gc import time from picographics import PicoGraphics, DISPLAY_PICO_DISPLAY, PEN_RGB332 # PEN_RGB332 is an 8 bit, fixed 256 colour palette which conserves your RAM. # Try switching the pen_type to PEN_RGB565 (16 bit, 65K colour) and see the difference! display = PicoGraphics(DISPLAY_PICO_DISPLAY, pen_type=PEN_RGB332, rotate=0) # set up constants for drawing WIDTH, HEIGHT = display.get_bounds() BLACK = display.create_pen(0, 0, 0) def free(full=False): # Calculates RAM usage gc.collect() F = gc.mem_free() A = gc.mem_alloc() T = F + A P = '{0:.2f}%'.format(F / T * 100) if not full: return P else: return (f"Total RAM \n{T} KB \nUnused RAM \n{F} KB \n({P} free)") def hsv_to_rgb(h, s, v): # From CPython Lib/colorsys.py if s == 0.0: return v, v, v i = int(h * 6.0) f = (h * 6.0) - i p = v * (1.0 - s) q = v * (1.0 - s * f) t = v * (1.0 - s * (1.0 - f)) i = i % 6 if i == 0: return v, t, p if i == 1: return q, v, p if i == 2: return p, v, t if i == 3: return p, q, v if i == 4: return t, p, v if i == 5: return v, p, q h = 0 while True: h += 1 r, g, b = [int(255 * c) for c in hsv_to_rgb(h / 360.0, 1.0, 1.0)] # rainbow magic display.set_pen(BLACK) RAINBOW = display.create_pen(r, g, b) # Create pen with converted HSV value display.set_pen(RAINBOW) display.set_font("bitmap8") display.text(free(full=True), 0, 0, WIDTH, 3) display.update() time.sleep(1.0 / 60)