them, and we can get one displaying.
</p>
<p>in fact, maybe that's what we do next. BRB...</p>
+ <b>Code Updated. Check the github link to keep up.</b>
+ <p>
+ Excellent, here's one, first hit on google.
+ <a href="https://javl.github.io/image2cpp/">image2cpp</a>
+ Let's run the Cherchez La Femme image through it. and upload it
+ to the machine aaaand...
+ </p>
+ <a href="../img/projects/pipboy/errorlowmem.png">
+ <img
+ class="blog-img"
+ src="../img/projects/pipboy/errorlowmem.png"
+ alt="A screenshot of the espruino terminal reading 'New interpreter error: LOW_MEMORY,MEMORY'"
+ />
+ </a>
+ <p>
+ So, that's not good. In fairness, I am loading a 167x167 bitmap
+ into memory here, I suppose it makes sense that that wouldn't
+ exactly work. But it is going to make this more difficult.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Next question then. What is a reasonable maximum array size we
+ can use here? Time to experiment. We'll start with half the
+ resolution, 83x83.
+ </p>
+ <a href="../img/projects/pipboy/chercheztake1.jpg">
+ <img
+ class="blog-img-lrg"
+ src="../img/projects/pipboy/chercheztake1.jpg"
+ alt="A photo of the pipboy screen showing garbage in a square."
+ />
+ </a>
+ <p>
+ OK, it's display, but that's clearly not right. Here's what it's
+ supposed to look like:
+ </p>
+ <a href="../img/projects/pipboy/CherchezLaFemme.png">
+ <img
+ class="blog-img"
+ src="../img/projects/pipboy/CherchezLaFemme.png"
+ alt="The Cherchez La Femme perk icon from New Vegas"
+ />
+ </a>
+ <p>
+ That's ok though, there's options on the converter for just this
+ predicament. This was the default (Horizontal - 1bpp), and
+ Vertical - 1bpp landed similar results, so let's move on from
+ that converter and use the one hosted on
+ <a href="https://www.espruino.com/Image+Converter"
+ >Espruino's website</a
+ >
+ instead. Man I'm really proving myself soooo smart today.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Using the right tool for the job gives us this! And it's even
+ full resolution! Huzzah!
+ </p>
+ <a href="../img/projects/pipboy/cherchezsuccess.jpg">
+ <img
+ class="blog-img-lrg"
+ src="../img/projects/pipboy/cherchezsuccess.jpg"
+ alt="A photo of the pipboy screen showing the Cherchez La Femme icon."
+ />
+ </a>
+ <p>
+ OK, that's real, genuine progress. We can encode images and
+ display them, which we need for the perks screen. They are
+ pretty big though, so I think next order of business is going to
+ be keeping those strings in text files and loading them in when
+ we need to. Back to the docs... Although I might leave it there
+ tonight, my back hurts. No wonder Zuck had to be 19 to do this
+ live.
+ </p>
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