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Author: isaacwellish

PyPortal_on_this_day/code.py

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+import random
+import board
+import adafruit_pyportal
+
+cwd = ("/"+__file__).rsplit('/', 1)[0] # the current working directory (where this file is)
+
+DAY = ["Day of the year"]
+PERSON = ["Person"]
+NOTABLE = ["Notable for"]
+YEAR = ["year"]
+ACCOMPLISH = ["Accomplishment"]
+WEB = ["Web Reference"]
+
+DATA = Fake_Requests(cwd+"/jan1_hist_json.py")
+
+# create pyportal object w no data source (we'll feed it text later)
+pyportal = PyPortal(url = DATA,
+                    json_path = (DAY, PERSON, NOTABLE, YEAR, ACCOMPLISH, WEB),
+                    status_neopixel = board.NEOPIXEL,
+                    default_bg = None,
+                    text_font = cwd+"fonts/Arial-ItalicMT-17.bdf",
+                    text_position=((5, 10), (5, 50), (5, 90),(5, 130), (5, 170), (5, 210)),
+                    text_color=(0xFFFFFF, 0xFFFFFF, 0xFFFFFF, 0xFFFFFF, 0xFFFFFF, 0xFFFFFF),
+                    text_maxlen=(50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50), # cut off characters
+                   )
+
+pyportal.set_text("loading ...") # display while user waits
+pyportal.preload_font() # speed things up by preloading font
+pyportal.set_text("What happened today in history?") # show title
+
+while True:
+    if pyportal.touchscreen.touch_point:
+        while True:
+            response = None
+            try:
+                response = pyportal.fetch()
+                print("Response is", response)
+            except RuntimeError as e:
+                print("Some error occured, retrying! -", e)

PyPortal_on_this_day/jan1_history_json.py

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+{
+    "Day of the year":"January 1",
+    "Person":"Mary Acworth Evershed",
+    "Notable for":"Astronomer, Scholor, born",
+    "year":"1867",
+    "Accomplishment":"Solar Eclipse documentation",
+    "Web Reference": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Acworth_Evershed",
+}