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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

Technical requirements

The code files from this chapter can be found in the Chapter08 folder in the GitHub repository at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/MicroPython-Cookbook.

Many of the recipes in this chapter will make use of the Circuit Playground Express library, which will typically get imported in the first few lines of the script, with the following line of code:

from adafruit_circuitplayground.express import cpx

This library will help us to interact with the buttons and switches that come with the board. There is another library that will be imported in many of the recipes in this chapter, using the following statement:

from adafruit_crickit import crickit

This library will help us to interact with the CRICKIT board, so that we can control the servos and DC motors.

The recipes involving servos in this chapter expect the two servos to be connected to servo port 1 and...

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