Pico Dinosaur Game

A Chrome offline dinosaur game implemented on a Pi Pico with a P5 display and push button.

Preview

picodino.mp4

Initial setup

Python venv

1. Install python3
2. Create a virtualenv using python -m venv .venv
3. Activate the virtualenv using .\.venv\Scripts\Activate.ps1
4. Install the requirements using pip install -r host-requirements.txt

CircuitPython deps

circup install -r device-requirements.txt

Creating graphic assets

You can use Piskel and import the BMP files to edit them.

For simplicity, they are saved as 256 color Bitmap in MS Paint. This results in green (usually) being index 250 in the palette and we make this transparent by fixed index in the code.