How to control the pixel matrix on your Sense Hat using the joystick - Raspberry Pi
This quick tutorial shows you how you can create a picture on the sense hat screen and then control it using the joystick. In this specific example we create a smiley face and then make it face, left or right depending on which direction we push the joystick.
#Below is the code from the video
from sense_hat import SenseHat
sense = SenseHat()
sense.clear()
r = (255,0,0)
g = (0, 255, 0)
b = (0, 0,255)
O = (0,0,0)
X = (255,255,255)
smileLeft = [
O,X,X,X,X,X,X,O,
X,O,O,O,O,O,O,X,
X,O,X,O,X,O,O,X,
X,O,O,O,O,O,O,X,
X,X,O,O,O,X,O,X,
X,O,X,X,X,O,O,X,
X,O,O,O,O,O,O,X,
O,X,X,X,X,X,X,O
]
smileRight = [
O,X,X,X,X,X,X,O,
X,O,O,O,O,O,O,X,
X,O,O,X,O,X,O,X,
X,O,O,O,O,O,O,X,
X,O,X,O,O,O,X,X,
X,O,O,X,X,X,O,X,
X,O,O,O,O,O,O,X,
O,X,X,X,X,X,X,O
]
def left():
sense.set_pixels(smileLeft)
def right():
sense.set_pixels(smileRight)
sense.stick.direction_left = left
sense.stick.direction_right = right
while True:
pass