import time import random from board import TOTAL_DOTS, BOARD class Pixo: """ Class that provides ease of life methods for displaying content on the board. During boot, `BOARD.auto_write` is set to False, which prevents newly written data from immediately updating the content. Call `BOARD.show()` whenever you want content to be updated. """ def _random_color(self): """ Generates a random value from 0-224 """ return random.randrange(0, 7) * 32 def clear(self): """ Fills the board with a 0 value and updates the content, turning off all LEDs """ self.fill((0, 0, 0)) BOARD.show() return self def fill(self, color): """ Fills the board with an RGB value, provided via `color` as either a list or tuple """ BOARD.fill(color) BOARD.show() return self def fill_image(self, image, show=True, slow=False): """ Fills the board with the provided `image`, which is a list of tuples containing RGB values When `show` is False, the board will not be updated automatically. This is useful if chaining commands together (such as setting the image, and then forcing a specific color for active pixels in the image) When `slow` is True, the content is updated pixel by pixel, rather than all at once """ for dot in range(TOTAL_DOTS): BOARD[dot] = image[dot] if slow and show: BOARD.show() if not slow and show: BOARD.show() return self def fill_random(self, slow=False): """ Fills the board with random RGB values When `Slow` is True, the content is updated pixel by pixel, rather than all at once """ for dot in range(TOTAL_DOTS): BOARD[dot] = ( self._random_color(), self._random_color(), self._random_color() ) if slow: BOARD.show() if not slow: BOARD.show() return self def blink_image(self, image, force=(), delay=0.3): """ Fills the board with the provided `image`, which is a list of tuples containing RGB values When `force` is set, it should be a tuple of RGB values; it will override all colors on the board that are active. `delay` is a float of how many seconds to wait before the board gets blanked out. To blink multiple times, call this in a loop """ if len(force) > 0: self.fill_image(image) else: self.fill_image(image, False).force_color(force) time.sleep(delay) self.fill((0, 0, 0)) return self def force_color(self, color): for dot in range(TOTAL_DOTS): if BOARD[dot] != (0, 0, 0) and BOARD[dot] != color: BOARD[dot] = color BOARD.show() return self # This doesn't give the desired cycle that a gaming keyboard would # def color_cycle(self): # for r in range(100, 200): # for g in range(100, 200): # for b in range(100, 200): # print((r, g, b)) # self.fill((r, g, b))