showanimation()

Function Definition: showanimation(animation = "happy")

Parameters

Name	Type	Description	Expected Values	Default Value
animation	string	The animation which needs to be played.	"happy", "nerdy", "thinking", "angry", "contempt", "blink", "fear", "surprise", "wink", "wave", and "crying"	"happy"

Description

The function sets the RGB LED display matrix to display the animation specified: “happy”, “nerdy”, “thinking”, “angry”, “contempt”, “blink”, “fear”, “surprise”, “wink”, “wave”, and “crying”.

Example

Quarky LED Animation – Python

The example demonstrates the various animation of the Quarky LED display in the Python Coding Environment.

Code

sprite = Sprite('Tobi')
quarky = Quarky()
import time

quarky.showanimation('happy')
quarky.showanimation('happy')

quarky.showanimation('nerdy')
quarky.showanimation('nerdy')

quarky.showanimation('thinking')
quarky.showanimation('thinking')

quarky.showanimation('angry')
quarky.showanimation('angry')

quarky.showanimation('contempt')
quarky.showanimation('contempt')

quarky.showanimation('blink')
quarky.showanimation('blink')

quarky.showanimation('fear')
quarky.showanimation('fear')

quarky.showanimation('surprise')
quarky.showanimation('surprise')

quarky.showanimation('wink')
quarky.showanimation('wink')

quarky.showanimation('wave')
quarky.showanimation('wave')

quarky.showanimation('crying')
quarky.showanimation('crying')

Output

Name Badge – Python

The example demonstrates how to display scrolling text to make a name badge in the Python Coding Environment.

Code

sprite = Sprite('Tobi')
quarky=Quarky()

while True:
	quarky.showanimation("blink")
	quarky.showanimation("blink")
	quarky.showscrollingtext("Quarky", 2, [0, 255, 0])
	quarky.showscrollingtext("Robotics", 2, [0, 0, 255])

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