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title: Making a custom bootscreen for your TS100 Soldering Iron
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It's a right of passage to add a custom bootscreen to your TS100 soldering iron but it took me a while to figure out how to generate a 1bit per pixel bitmap image.
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image: /assets/blog/TS100/real.jpeg
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alt: An image of a TS100 soldering iron showing a custom bootscreen that says 'solder boy'.
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There are a bunch of [posts](https://blog.dbrgn.ch/2017/9/5/creating-custom-ts100-logo-with-gimp/) online about how to add a custom bootscreen to a TS100 soldering iron. These things are great, if you get a little USB-C to jack adapter you can run them off a powerbank and they're tiny so you can keep them with you wherever you go. Which of course you should.
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I did have some trouble getting the image into the write format though, after messing around a little I settled on this command using ImageMagick:
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```bash
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convert image.png -depth 1 -monochrome BMP3:LOGOIN.BMP
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```
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Then you can use `identify` to check that the metadata of the output is indeed 1-bit in depth.
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```bash
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identify LOGOIN.BMP
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```
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<figure>
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<img src = "/assets/blog/TS100/pixels.jpeg">
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<figcaption>
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Designing my custom bootscreen in an Ipad app
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</figcaption>
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</figure>
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<figure>
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<img src = "/assets/blog/TS100/real.jpeg">
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<figcaption>
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What it looks like on the iron.
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</figcaption>
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</figure> |