Dancing Kitronik's Game Zap - reacts to music

You will glad to hear this is only a short post.  

In an earlier post, Build a Disco Cube:bit that reacts to music; the vibrations of music, makes the cube sitting on a speaker with the volume pushed to 11 (just to test it of course) react to the music. The accelerometers values in the micro:bit, in the three axis, are feedback to change the neopixels colour. Simple but good fun.

With some very minor (and I do mean minor) changes it works on the Kitronik's Game Zap - eight pixels are altered at a time instead of five but apart from that nothing more. The code in python is shown below:

from microbit import *

import neopixel, random

np = neopixel.NeoPixel(pin0, 64)

while True:

    for pxl in range (3,64, 8):

        rd=int(abs(accelerometer.get_x())/20)

        gr=int(abs(accelerometer.get_y())/20)

        bl=int(abs(accelerometer.get_z())/20)

        np[pxl] = (rd, gr, 0)

        np[pxl+1] = (rd, gr, 0)

        np[pxl-1] = (rd, gr, 0)

        np[pxl+2] = (rd, gr, 0)

        np[pxl+3] = (0, gr, rd)

        np[pxl-2] = (0, gr, rd)

        np[pxl-3] = (rd, 0, 0)

        np[pxl+4] = (0, gr,0)

        np.show()

I was impressed with a few tweaks it worked! Please feel to share and copy, if this useful to you please share in the comments.

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