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MicroPython Cookbook

By : Marwan Alsabbagh
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MicroPython Cookbook

By: Marwan Alsabbagh

Overview of this book

MicroPython is an open source implementation of Python 3 that runs in embedded environments. With MicroPython, you can write clean and simple Python code to control hardware instead of using complex low-level languages such as C and C++. This book guides you through all the major applications of the MicroPython platform to build and program projects that use microcontrollers. This MicroPython book covers recipes that will help you experiment with the programming environment and hardware programmed in MicroPython. You'll find tips and techniques for building a variety of objects and prototypes that can sense and respond to touch, sound, position, heat, and light. This book will take you through the uses of MicroPython with a variety of popular input devices and sensors. You'll learn techniques to handle time delays and sensor readings, and apply advanced coding techniques to create complex projects. As you advance, you'll deal with Internet of Things (IoT) devices and integration with other online web services. In addition to this, you'll use MicroPython to make music with bananas and create portable multiplayer video games that incorporate sound and light animations into the gameplay. By the end of this book, you'll have mastered the tips and tricks to troubleshoot your development problems and take your MicroPython project to the next level.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Inverting colors on the display

This recipe will demonstrate how to use the invert feature to flip the color of all the pixels. This can be used for when you are displaying white text on a black background, and then want the colors to be flipped so that the screen shows black text on a white background. A number of key operations on the display, such as clearing the screen, can be quite slow compared to features such as invert. We can take advantage of these performance differences to use invert when we want fast, visual feedback to appear to people using the screen.

This recipe will help you whenever you are creating a project using a slow microcontroller and you need to find creative ways to make the device more responsive so that you can improve its usability.

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