Circuit Playground Express: Part 1

Circuit Playground: Part 1

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Circuit Playground Express is…
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Here are some of the great goodies baked into each Circuit Playground Express. (No need to memorize these.) LED Lights: - 10 x NeoPixels, able to display any color. - Green “On” LED, to show i…
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NeoPixels are a revolutionary and ultra-popular way to add lights and color to your project. These full-colo…
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So now we know how to turn all the lights into a single color, but how do we turn individual lights on? Circuit Playground Express has 10 built-in NeoPixels, numbered counterclockwise: - cpx.pix…
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The Circuit Playground Express has a slide switch on it, above the battery connector. The slide switch doesn’t control the power of the board. It is a switch that returns True or False depending …
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The Circuit Playground Express has two buttons. Button A is on the left and button B is on the right. We can use these buttons to update our board’s status when pressed. ![Buttons](https://s3.amaz…
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Congratulations! We have learned the basics of Adafruit’s Circuit Playground Express using CircuitPython.  Here are some of the things we learned: - The cpx module has a lot of nifty functions. …

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