Toggling a value during a loop without time.sleep() Question: I’m trying to make a toggleable value in my program, during a loop. I can’t use time.sleep() in the program, as I can’t have the program stopping completely (so that you can’t press buttons during this time). I could just do this: while True: if button.is_pressed(): …
bit manipulation in CircuitPython Question: I’ve to perform bit-level operations using CircuitPython, like extracting and manipulating 3 bits from a bytes() object. In normal Python I use the Bitarray library. Is there an equivalent for CircuitPython? Thanks. Asked By: mik3.rizzo || Source Answers: Even with regular Python it’s typical to use the bitwise & and …
Circuitpython can't find port Seeed XIAO nRF52840 Sense Question: I have a Seeed XIAO nRF52840 Sense and it had been working fine with circuit python, but one time when I turned it on, circuit python gave this error message: Couldn’t find the device automatically. Check the connection (making sure the device is not in bootloader …
Where is the line of code in the Adafruit implementation of the PCA9685 PWM driver that writes to I2C? Question: Looking at the source of the PCA9685 python lib I do see that an instance of I2C is passed in with var name i2c_bus to create an instance of the PCA9685 class. The i2c_bus variable …
Circuit Python: I have generated an array of random times between 0700 and 2300. How do I repeat this action for every day in a set number of days? Question: I have the following code which generates one random time in each 30-minute slot from 0700 to 2300. Now I need to repeat this operation …
Python put requests on a CIRCUITPY Question: I have a CIRCUITPY macro board (keybow 2040) that I want to make automatically download a file, but I don’t have enough storage space on the board to put all the required libraries for the python requests module. The board’s available storage space is 866 KB, which is …
Raspberry Pi Pico ImportError: no module named 'machine' Question: I am running the following blink program on my raspberry pi pico. I am using circuit python. from machine import Pin import time led = Pin(13, Pin.OUT) while True: led(1) time.sleep(1) led(0) time.sleep(1) When I run it though it gives this error: Traceback (most recent call …
