Text Editor
Adafruit recommends using the Mu editor for using your CircuitPython code with the CLUE boards. You can get more info in this guide.
Alternatively, you can use any text editor that saves files.
To use with CircuitPython, you need to first install a few libraries, into the lib folder on your CIRCUITPY drive. Then you need to update code.py with the example script.
Thankfully, we can do this in one go. In the example below, click the Download Project Bundle button below to download the necessary libraries and the code.py file in a zip file. Extract the contents of the zip file, open the directory CLUE_Purse_Slideshow/ and then click on the directory that matches the version of CircuitPython you're using and copy the contents of that directory to your CIRCUITPY drive.
Your CIRCUITPY drive should now look similar to the following image:
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 Anne Barela for Adafruit Industries
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
# Bright Wearables Purse Slideshow with FancyLED
# Anne Barela for Adafruit Industries, February 2020
# MIT License
import board
import adafruit_dotstar as dotstar
from adafruit_clue import clue
from adafruit_slideshow import SlideShow, PlayBackDirection
import adafruit_fancyled.adafruit_fancyled as fancy
# Set the LED ring speed and brightness
LED_SPEED = 0.2 # pick a number from 0 (no motion) to 1.0 (fastest!)
BRIGHTNESS = 0.2 # pick a number from 0 (dark) to 1.0 (bright!)
# colors available are RED, YELLOW, ORANGE, GREEN, TEAL
# CYAN, BLUE, PURPLE, MAGENTA, WHITE, BLACK, GOLD, PINK
# AQUA, JADE, AMBER, VIOLET, SKY - pick any color set!
# 3 to 5 colors looks best...
palette = [clue.PINK, clue.GOLD, clue.JADE]
# For the Bright Wearables DotStar LED Ring
num_leds = 12
pixels = dotstar.DotStar(board.P13, board.P15, num_leds, auto_write=False)
offset = 0
# Create the BMP displayer
slideshow = SlideShow(clue.display, None, folder="/",
auto_advance=False)
# turn palette to fancytype
for i, color in enumerate(palette):
palette[i] = fancy.CRGB(*[x / 255 for x in color])
while True:
if clue.button_b:
slideshow.direction = PlayBackDirection.FORWARD
slideshow.advance()
if clue.button_a:
slideshow.direction = PlayBackDirection.BACKWARD
slideshow.advance()
# spin the LEDs
for i in range(num_leds):
# Load each pixel's color from the palette using an offset, run it
# through the gamma function, pack RGB value and assign to pixel.
color = fancy.palette_lookup(palette, offset + i / num_leds)
color = fancy.gamma_adjust(color, brightness=BRIGHTNESS)
pixels[i] = color.pack()
pixels.show()
offset += LED_SPEED / 10
