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Hello, I see that on the home page of this project, you say that this project is open source, and I commend you for trying to make it that. Did you know that for a program to be open source, you need to apply an open source license to it as well as distributing the source code? I recommend using the GNU General Public License. (See the article How to use GNU licenses for your own software.)

I bought DigiPixel many years ago from kickstarter. But didn’t play much with it. Now I just bought a Raspberry Pico, and I want to try DigiPixel with it. But Arduino is 5v and Pico is 3.3v on IO pin. So I wonder can it still work. I can’t find any docs mention what voltage is DigiPixel’s high level input voltage.

Thanks a lot.

I'm sure as people get more time to toy around with their DigiPixels and start experimenting, we're going to get lots of new variants of the samples, just wondering if anyone has any thoughts on how we should share these up?

One idea is we could keep then in our own forked branches and mention a link to them.. For some they could be added to the examples library as a new version, but probably don't want that to get that too cluttered. Plus part of me thinks the many great originals Brad has so graciously provided us should be left mostly alone, leaving room for others to experiment.

As an example here are a couple simple changes I did to the Snake and TheGreatRace games (see commit notes)...
SnakePixel (Head Color, +speed, a/b to restart) - bdowling@f996809
TheGreatRace (Horizontal/landscape play mode with B, Progressive speedup)- bdowling@894c219

So I haven't yet received my digipixel and I'm wondering how y'all are writing games for it already. Is there a way to emulate this that I don't know about? Can it just run in a normal terminal?

Hello Brad,
I've noticed that the Digipixel Library for arduino is missing on your first commit.

Good luck with those twins!
Gaspar

You'll want to make a public and private keypair for pushing to your repository.

$ ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096

and then give github your public key from ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
then you can clone down the repo

$ git clone [email protected]:bradsprojects/DigiPixel.git

inside the DigiPixel folder, you can then make your folders and files. Maybe a third-party folder where people can put code for a pull-request would be a good idea.

Once you make your folders, add them to the git repo.
The below command adds the current working directory, so make sure you're in the DigiPixel folder.

$ git add .
$ git diff --staged 
$ git commit -m 'this message says what changed in these files'
$ git push origin master

That'll get your changes into github nicely.

As for other people, we can fork the repo and put namespaced code in the third-party folder, then submit a pull request. You'll have to read more about pull requests when the time comes.

Best Wishes,
Lotus