Traffic lights - Microbit, GlowBugs and micropython

In a previous post, I got a GlowBug to work with a micro:bit (http://robotsandphysicalcomputing.blogspot.co.uk/2016/08/microbit-and-glowbug.html) . In this post, I will show a relatively simple traffic lights system produced by turning off and on the pixels via a micro:bit.




Code
from microbit import *
import neopixel

# Setup the Neopixel strip on pin0 with a length of 3 pixels
np = neopixel.NeoPixel(pin0, 3)

while True:
    #red
    np[0] = (255, 0, 0)
    np[1] = (0,0, 0)
    np[2] = (0,0,0)
    np.show()
    sleep(1000)
    #red and orange
    np[0] = (255, 0, 0)
    np[1] = (255, 69, 0)
    np[2] = (0,0,0)
    np.show()
    sleep(1000)
    #green only
    np[0] = (0, 0, 0)
    np[1] = (0, 0, 0)
    np[2] = (0,255,0)
    np.show()
    sleep(1000)
    #orange
    np[0] = (0, 0, 0)
    np[1] = (255, 69, 0)
    np[2] = (0,0,0)
    np.show()
    sleep(1000)





It is simple, timings and more lights can be added to make a more interesting system. If you have done something similar please use the comments to discuss or link to it.    

Thank you to @SCC_Lancaster for the loan of a micro:bit.


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