Can anyone recommend tools for doing pixel art / bitmaps for SSD1306-based OLEDs?
I'd like to draw some simple icon-style graphics with 2-3 frames of animation.
@skanman Sweet. Let me fire up my totally legit copy of Trumpet WinSock. :)
Hmm. It does make me wonder if something like TheDraw from the ANSI Art days might be suited for this task.
@baldengineer I was recommending MS-Paint because it can take a modern JPEG or TIFF and reduce the bit depth automatically when you specify it when saving as a bitmap. So you can start with a modern pre-existing image, crop, resize, save it as 8-bit or 16-bit or whatever, and now you have a great base image to edit anywhere you want.
@baldengineer I've always just made the icons in GIMP (saved as bitmap) and ran them through image2cpp:
@tomnardi Oh wow. This tool is nice for the code-conversion. Thank you!
@baldengineer you're gonna think I'm crazy, but Ms paint from the windows 3.1 era. Those old versions of mspaint let you fully control color depth down to black and white. If you're only doing 2-3 frames of animation, keep it simple. 👍