Our timeless silly bouncing balls demo, shows off drawing in PicoGraphics.
Want to test your buttons? Look no further!
We'd be remiss without an example to flex our new PicoVector and PicoGraphics improvements. If you're not using your Explorer for anything else, then here's a handy Analog or Digital desk clock for you. Connect to your computer and use Thonny to automagically set the time.
Seen those spinny wire mesh cube demos and wondered "how do they do that?" well you can continue to wonder, because this code makes me cry.
As the name suggests, this example will display a JPEG. Remember, it's "f" as in "Photographic" so technically you should pronounce it "jfeg.""
Bored of jfegs? Display a PNG instead... no, not the sound, but an image. PNG's are great because they can be paletted and give you super crisp details for low colour applications. Think icons, icons and, uh, icons!
A delightful example for the LSM6DS3 accelerometer on our multi sensor stick. Knock on your desk, go on!
The async version uses asyncio.create_task to poll for a tap event. Keeps your main loop all nice and clean.
Another example for our multi sensor stick. Uh, sorry. I guess this is a bit of an upsell. But it's three pretty cool sensors in one... and not a bag of virtual gems!
Displays light, accelerometer and temperature data!
Gotta put something on that little breadboard, right! How about more buttons. You can never have enough buttons. The ones they keep taking out of cars must go somewhere!?
More bling for your breadboard! If you liked it then you should have put an LED on it.
What's better than an ordinary LED? A RGB LED! (it's actually three teeny tiny ordinary LEDs smooshed together, but don't tell anyone!)
At a loss for what to do with your Explorer. Clock just not your cup of tea? How about a digital photo frame! Those are still cool, right?
If you haven't Google'd "permanent marker font" yet, you really should. It's about the only worthwhile thing Google.com still does.
It's a-maze-ing! Use the C, Z, A and B buttons to navigate.
You can't do much with one servo, so how about multiple? You could be well on your way to being the next terrifyingly lifelike robot engineer!
While it sounds like something for detecting ghosts or 1920s Soviet silent movies, a potentiometer is actually just a resistor, in a circle, with a knob to change its resistance. This one weird trick gives you a rotary control for your projects... use it to wiggle a servo!
Cue appropriate musical accompaniment before launching.
Another example for our multi sensor stick. A truly classic falling sand demo. Shake it off. Shake it off.
How to menu? How to menu!
Nobody wants one servo... though I guess this does demonstrate all the cool features Chris packed into our servo library. Give it a go!
Another example for our multi sensor stick. Turns out the LSM6DS3 has turnkey step counting built right in... I guess we know how all those sports trackers work now!
By the grace of alphabetical ordering this wonderful musical example has come last. I think parents will thank us for this.