NON-PROGRAMMER HELP-BACK TO PRELOADED PATTERN

jdeleo11

I'm a non-programmer who's been playing with the Pattern Paint program! I figured it out and was able to do some cool things with my brand new tape- but now I want to go back to the cool pattern that was included on the tape when I got it. Can I do that? Thanks!

Also, there should be one place that has everyones PNG files that we can just upload ones we like. As opposed to having to search through these forums.

soundergumi

Hey Jdeleo;

I asked about this the other day, and currently the only way to restore it to factory default is here: http://blinkinlabs.com/blinkytape/docs/arduino/. It sounds like adding a factory restore to Pattern Paint may be on the way in a future release.

In the mean time these two images are a close second and third for the initial animation: http://i.imgur.com/jt3tmV0.png & http://i.imgur.com/TKNnhua.png

Threeethan

Thanks for the help soundergumi! We'd looking into putting a 'return to factory' option in PatternPaint to make this easier.

amarfresh

fyi, i noticed that the ColorSwirl arduino sketch does not restore the "dimmer" functionality to the microbutton.

Matt Mets

We just released a new version of PatternPaint, that has a function to restore the default sketch:
https://github.com/Blinkinlabs/PatternPaint/releases/tag/0.2.0

It's a little clunky, but if you run Pattern Paint, click 'Connect' to connect to your tape, then on the menu bar select 'Tools' then 'Restore Rainbow Sketch', it should load the original sketch back on.

Matt Mets

Thanks for pointing that out, Amar! I just updated the ColorSwirl sketch in the Arduino library, so if you download it again, it should have that functionality.

soundergumi

Wewt!

So many new functions to break!

jdeleo11

Works great! thanks!