Indiepixel

Contributions more than welcome!

Basically… pixlet in Python.

Why?

This is an example for generating images for the Tidbyt device, a nice LED display. The company that made the Tidbyt got acquihired and won't be developing the software much in the future.

Pixlet was very convenient, but is an oddball for a tech stack: implemented in Go for people to consume in Starlark. Starlark is a niche language. It'd be nice to support a mainstream language.

This is a WIP implementation of the same concepts as pixlet in Python.

Development

Environment setup

First make sure you have uv installed.

Install dependencies with:

uv sync

Install pre-commit hooks:

uv run pre-commit install

Running examples

To run examples/kitchen_sink.py:

uv run examples/kitchen_sink.py

Running tests

uv run pytest

Linting and formatting

uv run pre-commit run --all-files

Or run ruff directly

uv run ruff check
uv run ruff format --check

Status

• WebP generation
• Rendering the tb-8 pixel font without anti-aliasing
• Components
  • Text
  • Box
  • Rect
  • Column
  • Row
  • Animation
  • Image
  • PieChart
  • Plot
  • 'expand' option
  • WrappedText
• Fonts