Josh's Brain

The terminalio.Terminal class implements a traditional 'terminal' with VT100 control codes. It does this by giving you a stream you can print to. It converts the stream of characters into a tilegrid using the bitmap font. It will wrap lines if necessary. Unfortunately it only supports a single color at a time. Multi-colored text isn't supported.

import terminalio
import displayio

# size of each font glyph (this is a monospaced font)
fontx, fonty = terminalio.FONT.get_bounding_box()

# adjust palette if desired
plain_palette = displayio.Palette(2)
plain_palette[0] = 0x000000
plain_palette[1] = 0x33ff33

# create grid using the font 
# width and height in tiles
# x and y in pixels
pgrid = displayio.TileGrid(terminalio.FONT.bitmap,
                           x=0,
                           y=0,
                           width=display.width // fontx,
                           height=display.height // fonty,
                           tile_width=fontx,
                           tile_height=fonty,
                           pixel_shader=plain_palette)

# terminal attached to the tilegrid
ptermx = terminalio.Terminal(pgrid, terminalio.FONT)

# add to the screen
display.root_group.append(pgrid)

Print to the terminal with print:

# with newline
print("some text", file=ptermx, end="\r\n")

# without newline
print("some text", file=ptermx, end="")