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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

Detecting button presses with GPIO pins

This recipe will demonstrate how to check the state of the three push buttons that come with the Adafruit FeatherWing OLED. We will poll each of these three buttons and continually print out their state so that we can detect the moment a button is pressed and when it is realized.

Each of these push buttons is attached to a different GPIO pin, so we will use a dictionary to map the button names to their associated GPIO pins. The physical buttons on the board are labeled A, B, and C. We will use the same naming to map the button events to print statements in the script.

This recipe is useful because it will enable your project to take different actions, depending on which buttons are being pressed. Because there are three buttons on this board, you have a lot of options in terms of how you can design your application. For example, you could...

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