LED Display - Pixels

2.5. LED Display - Pixels#

The LED display consists of a 5x5 grid of Red LEDs, which are individually addressable with 256 levels of intensity.

Note

https://microbit-micropython.readthedocs.io/en/v2-docs/display.html

2.5.1. Addressing Pixels#

Each pixel is individually addressable, which means that we can set their brightness individually by their location.

Set a pixel brightness#

microbit.display.set_pixel(x, y, value)

where:

  • x is the column number

  • y is the row number

  • value is the brightness between 0 and 9 inclusive

Get a pixel brightness#

value = microbit.display.set_pixel(x, y)

Which may be useful if you are not storing the pixel values yourself to save memory.