Badger 2040 Schedule

This turns your Badger into a portable conference schedule viewer.

Configure the talks for a day, and skip forward and back with the face buttons.
Marvel at the progress bar at the bottom of the Badger.

This program requires some assets to be built (that is: images cropped and transformed). There is a Windows .bat file supplied to do this. If you're using another OS, you'll need to roll your own. Please fork/pull-request and contribute it back :)

Clarifications to this readme also welcome by fork/pull-request.

Use at your own risk, etc.

Building

System Setup

1. Install Thonny, which is used to compile and deliver MicroPython to the Badger.
2. Install ImageMagick for resizing/cropping images. The magick command should be available to the command line.
3. Ensure python3 can be called from the command line. Install it if it's not available.
4. Copy this Image Converter script into the external-code folder.
5. The conversion script has a dependency. Use pip3 install pillow to install it.

Configuration

An example is provided so you should be able to be running straight away. A skeleton is supplied so you can create your own schedule data to load.

To use the example as-is

1. Copy the contents of the config-example folder into config

To setup your own

1. Copy the contents of the config-example folder into config
2. Add your own images into the config/images folder.
3. Edit config/config.py to describe the day's schedule.

Building assets (run the first time and when source images or schedule change)

The Badger requires image assets to be compiled in a particular format. The build chain will have a crack at resizing, cropping, and converting images, leaving the originals untouched.

1. Run build-win.bat. This should create a _deploy folder containing a cn_schedule folder which has an images subfolder and your config.py file.

Deploying to Badger

1. Open Thonny.
2. Attach your Badger via USB.
3. Ensure Thonny is set up to deploy to Badger. Particularly, ensure the bottom right of the window says MicroPython (Raspberry Pi Pico) - change this by click-and-select if it does not.
4. Ensure the file browser is open in Thonny (in the menu: View -> Files should be ticked)
5. In the bottom browser pane (this is the Badger) delete cn_schedule folder if it exists.
6. Find the _deploy folder on your computer (the top file browser pane).
7. Right click _deploy/cn_schedule and click upload to /
8. Open badge.py in Thonny.
9. Hit the Run Current Script button. This will load badge.py onto Badger and run it.

All gone well?

Please send me a message / picture / video of your Badger :)

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References

General info / Hat tips

• Getting Started With Badger (Pimoroni)
• Setting up Badger (Thought Asylum)

License

You're welcome to lift any code you like, fork, or adapt. Please respect CC BY-SA for any significant chunks of code (Assertion: James Rutherford / creativenucleus 2022).