Introduction¶

Perform a variety of LED animation tasks

Dependencies¶

This driver depends on:

Adafruit CircuitPython

Please ensure all dependencies are available on the CircuitPython filesystem. This is easily achieved by downloading the Adafruit library and driver bundle.

Usage Example¶

import adafruit_dotstar as dotstar
import board
from led_animation import color
# setup the pixel
dot = dotstar.DotStar(board.APA102_SCK, board.APA102_MOSI, 1, brightness=.2)
# set the color by name
dot[0] = color.GOLD
# show the pixel
dot.show()

Contributing¶

Contributions are welcome! Please read our Code of Conduct before contributing to help this project stay welcoming.

Building locally¶

Zip release files¶

To build this library locally you’ll need to install the circuitpython-build-tools package.

python3 -m venv .env
source .env/bin/activate
pip install circuitpython-build-tools

Once installed, make sure you are in the virtual environment:

source .env/bin/activate

Then run the build:

circuitpython-build-bundles --filename_prefix circuitpython-led_animation --library_location .

Sphinx documentation¶

Sphinx is used to build the documentation based on rST files and comments in the code. First, install dependencies (feel free to reuse the virtual environment from above):

python3 -m venv .env
source .env/bin/activate
pip install Sphinx sphinx-rtd-theme

Now, once you have the virtual environment activated:

cd docs
sphinx-build -E -W -b html . _build/html

This will output the documentation to docs/_build/html. Open the index.html in your browser to view them. It will also (due to -W) error out on any warning like Travis will. This is a good way to locally verify it will pass.

Table of Contents¶

Simple test¶

Ensure your device works with this simple test.

examples/led_animation_simpletest.py¶

"""Blink LED animation."""
import board
import neopixel
from adafruit_led_animation.animation import Blink
import adafruit_led_animation.color as color

# Works on Circuit Playground Express and Bluefruit.
# For other boards, change board.NEOPIXEL to match the pin to which the NeoPixels are attached.
pixel_pin = board.NEOPIXEL
# Change to match the number of pixels you have attached to your board.
num_pixels = 10

pixels = neopixel.NeoPixel(pixel_pin, num_pixels)
blink = Blink(pixels, 0.5, color.PURPLE)

while True:
    blink.animate()

API Reference¶

Used by autodoc_mock_imports.