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Making a custom bootscreen for your TS100 Soldering Iron	post	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.	/assets/blog/TS100/real.jpeg	An image of a TS100 soldering iron showing a custom bootscreen that says 'solder boy'.

There are a bunch of posts 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.

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:

convert image.png -depth 1 -monochrome BMP3:LOGOIN.BMP

Then you can use identify to check that the metadata of the output is indeed 1-bit in depth.

identify LOGOIN.BMP

Designing my custom bootscreen in an Ipad app

What it looks like on the iron.