PeggyDraw 2

We are pleased to finally release PeggyDraw 2, a little bit of long-delayed software. It's a Processing application that you can use to draw simple 1-bit animations on a 25x25 grid. The neat bit, of course, is that you can press the "Save" button, and the file that it saves is actually an Arduino program, ready to be programmed onto a Peggy 2.

You can download PeggyDraw 2 right here. It's fully built in Processing, so that it works on Mac, Windows, and Linux. Also, open source, designed to be adaptable.

Some things to note about this program:

• If you don't have Processing on your computer, download it here.
• The editing interface is easy point-and-click. Try it out to see how it works.
• You can individually pick different delay times per frame, as low as 20 ms, or give every frame the same duration.
• The frame data is stored in Arduino program memory, so you're only limited by the flash memory in terms of frame number-- over 250 frames fit on an ATmega328P.
• The output file is located in the PeggyDraw2 sketch directory, inside a directory named "PeggyProgram" "data." The file is called "PeggyProgram.pde."
• You can both save a file and later reload it for editing.
• The formats used in PeggyDraw 2 should be easily adaptable to write sequences for other types of LED grids, even of different aspect ratio and control software.

And, special thanks to Matt Mets, http://cibomahto.com for assistance with Processing.

Update, 3/19/2011: We've posted a new version, PeggyDraw 2 v. 1.1, available at the same location. Note that the output file is now stored in the "data" directory, not a separate "PeggyProgram" directory.