From 482513c0244bc50d7b4abc8f6383edfad0dfa426 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mikayla Dobson <mikaylaherself@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2023 09:30:18 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] new color functions, readme

---
 README.md |  4 ++++
 main.py   | 15 +++++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 README.md

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..65f3237
--- /dev/null
+++ b/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+# IOT with Micropython and Raspberry Pi Pico W
+
+Starting a new project here towards building out a toolkit for developing some custom IOT tools, as well as associated web hosting
+technologies to host and interact with these tools.
diff --git a/main.py b/main.py
index d5c64a9..1d67d98 100644
--- a/main.py
+++ b/main.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 from machine import Pin, PWM
+from random import choice
 from time import sleep
 
 U16_MAX = 65535
@@ -32,7 +33,6 @@ class RGB:
         return self.r, self.g, self.b
 
 
-
 class StripLights:
     def __init__(self):
         self.B = Color(10)
@@ -83,6 +83,15 @@ class StripLights:
             self.set_color(color)
             sleep(sleep_interval)
 
+    def color_random(self, color_list, sleep_interval=1, logging=False):
+        color = choice(color_list)
+        self.set_color(color)
+
+        if logging:
+            print(color)
+
+        sleep(sleep_interval)
+
 COLORS = {
     'PURPLE': RGB(255, 0, 255),
     'RED': RGB(255, 0, 0),
@@ -90,11 +99,13 @@ COLORS = {
     'BLUE': RGB(0, 0, 255)
 }
 
+COLORS_U16 = [color.to_u16() for color in COLORS.values()]
+
 def main():
     lights = StripLights()
 
     while True:
-        lights.color_cycle([color.to_u16() for color in COLORS.values()])
+        lights.color_random(COLORS_U16)
 
     # while True:
     #     lights.breathe(0.01)