We'll reuse the same approach taken in the Arduino section for representing the dice roll using patterns of NeoPixels.

Storing the Face Patterns

Here's a simple approach for storing the patterns of the NeoPixels for the dice rolls. We can use a dictionary, which is a storage class in CircuitPython that can store any amount of values which are accessed by using their associated keys. These are called key-value pairs, and a dictionary can hold any number of them. We will use the dice roll number as our key and then a tuple of NeoPixels values associated with the number to represent the dice face patterns.

Like this:

dice_pixels = {
 1 : (2,),
 2 : (4, 9),
 3 : (0, 4, 7),
 4 : (1, 3, 6, 8),
 5 : (0, 2, 4, 5, 9),
 6 : (0, 2, 4, 5, 7, 9)
}

You'll see this get used later in the final code.

This guide was first published on Dec 16, 2016. It was last updated on Mar 08, 2024.

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