Images that fill the display are fine, but the array is pretty small and we might want to display something bigger. A scrolling display is often the way to do it. To make a scrolling display there are the shift_into_left(stripe) and shift_into_right(stripe) methods.
The stripe parameter is a list of colors, one per pixel, that will get shifted onto the display with the first one at the top.
The examples below show counting from 0 to 63 (i.e. 6 bits worth) and shifting each number onto the display from the left and right, respectively.
Both examples use the numbers_to_pixels(x, color) function that converts the number x to a list of color values: the color parameter when a pixel should be on, and (0, 0, 0) when it should be off. See the section on stripes for more detail.
For example, numbers_to_pixels(5, (32, 32, 8) would result in ((0, 0, 0), (0, 0, 0), (0, 0, 0), (32, 32, 8), (0, 0, 0), (32, 32, 8))
import board
import dotstar_featherwing
import time
wing = dotstar_featherwing.DotstarFeatherwing(board.D13, board.D11)
# count from 0->63, shifting the binary pattern in from the left
while True:
wing.clear()
for x in range(64):
wing.shift_into_left(wing.number_to_pixels(x, (64, 0, 0)))
wing.show()
time.sleep(0.2)
import board
import dotstar_featherwing
import time
wing = dotstar_featherwing.DotstarFeatherwing(board.D13, board.D11)
# count from 0->63, shifting the binary pattern in from the right
while True:
wing.clear()
for x in range(64):
wing.shift_into_right(wing.number_to_pixels(x, (64, 0, 0)))
wing.show()
time.sleep(0.2)
