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Published inMay 2019
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ISBN-139781838649951
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Marwan Alsabbagh
Marwan Alsabbagh
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Marwan Alsabbagh

Marwan Alsabbagh has been coding in some form or other since before the web existed and has continued to develop software, with a particular passion for Python, his preferred programming language, for over a decade. He has been a speaker at a number of global Python conferences, where he has been known to present microcontroller projects with a healthy dose of humor and stage theatrics. The snow globe intruder alert system, which he created with his creative and curious daughters, was one of his favorite MicroPython projects. His research interests include software engineering, microcontrollers, and 3D printing.
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Detecting push button presses

In this recipe, we will learn how to create a program that will print a message when the push button is pressed. Push buttons are a great way to create user interaction on your devices. This board comes with two push buttons, A and B, so you can create all sorts of different interactions with your users by reading and responding to push button events.

Getting ready

You will need access to the REPL on the Circuit Playground Express to run the code presented in this recipe.

How to do it...

Let's perform the following steps:

  1. First, run...
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MicroPython Cookbook
Published in: May 2019Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781838649951

Author (1)

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Marwan Alsabbagh

Marwan Alsabbagh has been coding in some form or other since before the web existed and has continued to develop software, with a particular passion for Python, his preferred programming language, for over a decade. He has been a speaker at a number of global Python conferences, where he has been known to present microcontroller projects with a healthy dose of humor and stage theatrics. The snow globe intruder alert system, which he created with his creative and curious daughters, was one of his favorite MicroPython projects. His research interests include software engineering, microcontrollers, and 3D printing.
Read more about Marwan Alsabbagh