Snake Game for Twinkly LED Board

Snake for the Twinkly led matrix

This Python program allows you to play the classic Snake game on a Twinkly LED board. It uses the Twinkly LED board to display the game grid and the snake.

Youtube: Click here to view a youtube 🎬 movie of the 🐍 snake game on the Twinkly Ledboard

Image of the game in action:

Prerequisites

Before you can run this program, make sure you have the following:

1. Twinkly LED board
2. Python 3.x installed on your system. I dit use Python3 3.9.6 on a macbook pro M1
3. The following Python libraries installed:
   • xled
   • io
   • struct
   • time
   • random
   • keyboard
   • requests

You can install the required libraries using pip:

pip install xled keyboard requests

How to Play

• Connect your Twinkly LED board to your computer.
• Run the Python script, and the Snake game will start on your LED board.
• bash sudo python3 twinkly_snake.py I needed to add sudo to use the keyboard in OSX.
• Use the arrow keys or 'W', 'A', 'S', 'D' to control the snake's direction.
• Eat the red or yellow food to increase your score.
• Avoid colliding with the yourself.
• If you have a text to speach system, you can play the score after a game over your sound system. (see the last lines of code for that)

LED Matrix Configuration

The game grid is configured for a 6-tile Twinkly LED board. See my image for the correct tile and cable setup. If you have a different configuration, you may need to adjust the led_matrix in the code to match your setup.

LED Matrix Cable setup

if you don't do this the same, the snake will move onlogical over the tiles :-)