Worm screens

Twelve little animations for the 128×64 screen on every bin: the two logos, then ten worms. A bin plays one between turns of its title marquee, in this order, round and round, with the readings back in between, and after each one a message the team typed in on the dashboard, if they left one. These are the real pixels: the same code that runs on the Pico was run on a desktop and every frame captured, so what you see here is what the screen does, three times bigger.

Make your own: draw a picture or a little video for your bin's screen, and pick which shows it plays, on Make your own show.

**Woodstock High** The wolverine zooms in from nothing, lands with a shake, and the school's name types in under it. The real mascot, traced to one-bit pixels.

**Maker Lab Kids** The gear, the flask and the rocket, wiped in and held.

**Big Worm** One fat worm crosses the screen, grinning, and the name comes up under it.

**Worm Party** Fifteen little worms wiggling at once. Some are thin, some are fat, none hold still.

**Wormhole** Rings rush outward like a tunnel and a worm shrinks into the middle. Then the name.

**Underground** A cross-section: sun, grass, two worms tunnelling and leaving tunnels behind, and a temperature probe stuck in the soil, warming up.

**Worm Pulse** A heartbeat trace drawn live, with a worm for the pen and five hearts beating in turn (an earthworm really has five pairs). 5 hearts, 1 worm.

**Compost** An apple core and a peel drop into the pile, and the worms come up for dinner. nom nom nom.

**Hello Worm** Zoom in on a worm face. It blinks. It says hi.

**Worm Lab** A worm in glasses watches a bar chart update on its own little screen. DATA!

**Conga** Six worms do the wave across the screen. Do the worm.

**Worm Radar** A radar sweep finds worms. Each blip wiggles when the beam passes. WORMS FOUND.

The logos are lib/logos.py, bitmaps that tools/gen-logos.py makes from the artwork (solid for the outlines, a checker for the colour fills: the only grey a one-bit screen has). The rest live in lib/wormshow.py, each one a few dozen lines of circles, lines and text. Make your own: copy one, give it a name and a draw(o, t), add it to SHOWS. A board can run all of them in a loop as a demo (tools/splash_demo.py), and tools/gen-splash.py plus tools/splash-gif.py make these pictures.