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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

Adding button interactions to the event loop

In this recipe, we will start to build our main event loop. Each player will be assigned a single push button to press during the game. Player 1 will be assigned push button A, and player 2 will be assigned push button B. The event loop will continually check each of these buttons, looking for new button press events. When a new push button event is detected, it will print a message.

This will be further expanded in the next recipes in this chapter, in order to add the rest of the Button Bash game's functionality. Event loops can be found in many types of software applications. Exploring their usage can help you whenever you have to make your own, or when you have to interact with a built-in event loop.

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