At this point you should be able to upload code (such as the “Blink” sketch) to the board, the basics are confirmed working. If not, work though the prior two pages.

Source Code

Source code for this project is found in the Adafruit_Learning_System_Guides repository on Github, specifically in the M4_Eyes subdirectory. Here’s a direct download link:

Download M4_Eyes project from GitHub

Libraries

The following libraries are used by the eye code (or are referenced indirectly by libraries used). These can be installed through the Arduino Library Manager (Sketch→Include Library→Manage Libraries…)

Adafruit_Arcada
Adafruit_GFX
Adafruit_BusIO
Adafruit_ImageReader
Adafruit_LIS3DH
Adafruit_NeoPixel
Adafruit_Seesaw
Adafruit_Sensor (Adafruit Unified Sensor in Library Manager)
Adafruit_SPIFlash
Adafruit_ST7789
Adafruit_TinyUSB
Adafruit_TouchScreen
Adafruit_ZeroDMA (Adafruit Zero DMA in Library Manager)
Adafruit_ZeroPDM (Adafruit Zero PDM in Library Manager)
Adafruit_ZeroTimer
ArduinoJson (not Arduino_JSON)
SdFat - Adafruit fork (not the standard SdFat fork)

Additionally, depending on which of the “user” code tabs is active, you might need:

Adafruit_AMG88xx (used by user_watch.cpp)

Project Settings

Tools→CPU Speed→180 MHz (overclock) (200 MHz is a bit too much for some boards and may lock up, but you can give it a try. We use 180 MHz for our prepackaged .UF2 files since it’s likely to work on more boards in the wild.)
Tools→Optimize→Fastest (-Ofast) (don’t use the “dragon” setting for this, it may cause problems)
Tools→USB Stack→TinyUSB (the code will not compile without this selected!)