PICO4K for Raspberry Pi Pico | 6th in Wild Compo at Function 2022
7Video Capture of PICO4K, my Wild Compo entry for Function 2022 that achieved 6th out of 11 entries. It was an awesome first demoparty for me. Greetings to everybody who was there :)
The recording is the same as shown at Function. The video is 16:9 stretched, original aspect ratio is 4:3.
PICO4K is a less than 4KB large program for the Raspberry Pi Pico + Pimoroni VGA Demo Base that outputs 640x480@60fps video over VGA using the PIO unit and 48kHz stereo audio on 3.5mm jack using the PWM unit.
The Raspberry Pi Pico's processor (RP2040) has two Cortex-M0+ cores clocked at 125MHz here, but this intro still works even at clocks as high as 300MHz! The SoC has 264KB of on-chip RAM and external on-board QSPI flash (2MB on the Pico).
This and the many absolutely crazy peripherals on the RP2040 make it a great demo platform! (shoutouts to the PIO and Interpolator)
Source Code is available at the GitHub link below. Together with the intro source code I'm releasing picopack, a CMake library and depacker payload to run compressed intros and demos on the pico by decompressing them into RAM directly at boot time.
Packed Size: 3417 bytes
Source Code: https://github.com/Ferdi265/pico4k
Pouet Page: https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=92223
Pimoroni VGA Demo Base: https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/pimoroni-pico-vga-demo-base