M5Stack-Avatar for CRT Display(Composite)

Features

• 😐 Draw avatar face
• 😄 Expression(Happy, Angry, Sad etc.)
• 😺 Customize face
• 💋 Lip sync
• 🎨 Color Palette
• 🔃 Move, Zoom and Rotation
• 2️⃣ Compatible with M5Stack Core2
• Output to Composite Video Signal(CVBS)

Installation

Prerequisites

• USB Driver is installed throwgh Getting Started: Installing the USB Driver
• Any of IDE is set up
  • This library is confirmed on Arduino IDE and Platform IO for now

Using Arduino IDE

• On Arduino IDE, Select "Sketch > Include Library > Manage Libraries..."
• Search "m5stack avatar"
• Select "M5Stack_Avatar" from the results then click "Install"
• The library gets installed

Using Platform IO

• Initialize your Platform IO project

mkdir my-avatar
cd my-avatar
platformio init -d . -b m5stack-core-esp32

• Install the library and its dependency

platformio lib install M5Unified
platformio lib install M5Stack-Avatar-lgfx-cvbs

• The library gets downloaded from repository to .piolibdeps directory

Usage

#include <M5GFX.h>
#include <LGFX_8BIT_CVBS.h>
#include <Avatar.h>

using namespace m5avatar;

static LGFX_8BIT_CVBS display;
static M5Canvas sp_avatar(&display);

Avatar avatar(&sp_avatar);

void setup()
{
  M5.begin();

  display.init();
  display.setPivot((display.width() >> 1), display.height() >> 1);

  avatar.init(1); // start drawing
  avatar.setScale(1.0);
  avatar.setRotation(0);
  avatar.setSpeechFont(&fonts::Font0);
  avatar.setSpeechText("Hello World!");
  avatar.setExpression(Expression::Happy);
}

void loop()
{
  // avatar's face updates in another thread
  // so no need to loop-by-loop rendering
}

Further usage

see examples directory.