Frantic Glowbit Pico

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I have completed an alarm for my eBike using a Pico and PiicoDev Motion Sensor which powers a piezo screamer on activation. I also wanted visual warning to anyone trying to steal my eBike so I added a Glowbit Rainbow. This is the code I used, modified from the Core Electronics code. The While True loop could be improved but I have kept it simple to make changes you want to make, easy.
Certainly a fun device for displaying.
Cheers,
Brian

# Example using PIO to drive a set of WS2812 LEDs.
# Adapted from code courtesy of CoreElectronics
# Display of Glowbit Rainbow an alarm display -
#    fast colour chase a bit frantic -
#        green - forwards
#        blue  -  backwards
#        red   -  forwards
#        blue  - backwards

import array, time
from machine import Pin
import rp2

# Configure the number of WS2812 LEDs.
NUM_LEDS = 13
PIN_NUM = 0 # changed from 22 for physical convenience
brightness = 0.2

@rp2.asm_pio(sideset_init=rp2.PIO.OUT_LOW, out_shiftdir=rp2.PIO.SHIFT_LEFT, autopull=True, pull_thresh=24)
def ws2812():
    T1 = 2
    T2 = 5
    T3 = 3
    wrap_target()
    label("bitloop")
    out(x, 1)               .side(0)    [T3 - 1]
    jmp(not_x, "do_zero")   .side(1)    [T1 - 1]
    jmp("bitloop")          .side(1)    [T2 - 1]
    label("do_zero")
    nop()                   .side(0)    [T2 - 1]
    wrap()

# Create the StateMachine with the ws2812 program, outputting on pin
sm = rp2.StateMachine(0, ws2812, freq=8_000_000, sideset_base=Pin(PIN_NUM))

# Start the StateMachine, it will wait for data on its FIFO.
sm.active(1)

# Display a pattern on the LEDs via an array of LED RGB values.
ar = array.array("I", [0 for _ in range(NUM_LEDS)])

# if you want to understand above code ask CoreElectronics
#    as I have no idea.

##########################################
def pixels_show():
    dimmer_ar = array.array("I", [0 for _ in range(NUM_LEDS)])
    for i,c in enumerate(ar):
        r = int(((c >> 8) & 0xFF) * brightness)
        g = int(((c >> 16) & 0xFF) * brightness)
        b = int((c & 0xFF) * brightness)
        dimmer_ar[i] = (g<<16) + (r<<8) + b
    sm.put(dimmer_ar, 8)
    time.sleep_ms(10)

def pixels_set(i, color):
    ar[i] = (color[1]<<16) + (color[0]<<8) + color[2]

# do while added funcion to enable simple reverse direction -
def color_chase_reverse(color): # sleep time not passed
    i = (NUM_LEDS) - 1 # loop from 12 to 0
    while i > -1:
        pixels_set(i, color)
        time.sleep(0.005)
        pixels_show()
        i = i - 1

def color_chase(color): # sleep time not passed
    for i in range(NUM_LEDS):
        pixels_set(i, color)
        time.sleep(0.005)
        pixels_show()

# Other colours removed as not required.
RED = (255, 0, 0)
BLUE = (0, 0, 255)
GREEN = (0, 255, 0)
BLACK = (0, 0, 0)

while True:
    color_chase(GREEN)
    color_chase(BLACK)	
    color_chase_reverse(BLUE)
    color_chase_reverse(BLACK) 
    color_chase(RED)	
    color_chase(BLACK) 
    color_chase_reverse(BLUE)
    color_chase_reverse(BLACK)	
        
    #time.sleep(2) # remove rem to give time to stop on black
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My remarks have lost the # and appear to be in bold. You may have to fix that if you download the code, which I am happy for you to do.

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Hey Brian,

If you surround the whole thing in three ` marks, its the tilde key, left of the one button(one set of three on each end) marks then it will format it as code and display correctly.
Awesome adaptation! I’m loving the updates :smiley:

PS: if you are after some explanation behind the code on the PIO it was discussed in this topic here: WS2812 & pico - #22 by Dave161462

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Thanks Liam.
Will do that in future.
Am working on a charger scheduled using Rpi.
Will probably use the Glowbit to display charge methods. Will have to include more Glowbits with my next order.

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Hey @Brian22570 and @Liam,

Thanks for sharing your code! By the way, this is a Discourse forum so the formatting of posts is quite similar to Markdown parsing if you’re familiar with that:

Essentially your # and ## cause the following text to become <h1> tags, which even then I need to write using &lt; and &gt;

Otherwise the text appears like this, because you can also add HTML tags in here which let’s you do all kinds of other tricks

:grin:

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