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MicroPython Cookbook

You're reading from   MicroPython Cookbook Over 110 practical recipes for programming embedded systems and microcontrollers with Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838649951
Length 452 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Marwan Alsabbagh Marwan Alsabbagh
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting started with MicroPython 2. Controlling LEDs FREE CHAPTER 3. Creating Sound and Music 4. Interacting with Buttons 5. Reading Sensor Data 6. Button Bash Game 7. Fruity Tunes 8. Let's Move It, Move It 9. Coding on the micro:bit 10. Controlling the ESP8266 11. Interacting with the Filesystem 12. Networking 13. Interacting with the Adafruit FeatherWing OLED 14. Building an Internet of Things (IoT) Weather Machine 15. Coding on the Adafruit HalloWing Microcontroller 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Coding on the Adafruit HalloWing Microcontroller

In this chapter, we will create a joke-telling machine. We will use the Adafruit HalloWing M0 Express board that comes with a full color TFT display and capacitive touch sensors. Each time you press the touch button, a new joke riddle will be presented. You can try and figure out the answer to the riddle and when you are ready, touch the button to show the answer to the riddle. Pressing the touch button again randomly selects a new riddle and starts another game.

This chapter will be a useful source of information and help you build projects that let you leverage the power of a full color screen with a good enough resolution to present multi-line text and full color graphical images.

We will be covering the following recipe in this chapter:

  • Discovering I2C devices
  • Reading data from the accelerometer using I2C
  • Detecting board-flipping...
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