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This project is about controlling a LED Matrix (made out of adressable WS2812b LED-Strips) and implementing some basic Tetris fundamentals (the actual Tetris logic will be done by some other person), like displaying the standard tetris-Blocks, implementng a falling-animation of the block, the possibility to remove a whole row of pixels. The Game will be controlled by some game controllers (I don't know which ones at the moment). The whole development is done on a Raspberry Pi 3 B2 and written in python.
The LEDs will be controlled using Adafruits Neopixel library, the installation instruction of this library can be found here:

All scripts are programmed using python3 and must run as root!

At first I want to implement the following classes:

• Matrix.py -> creates a Matrix of the LED-adresses and gives the programmer the possibility to manipulate the matrix, so it will fit the actual order of the data line of the LEDs.
• Blocks.py -> creates the standard Tetris-Blocks and returns them as an object.
• Controller.py -> interacts with the controller
• GameBoard.py -> creates the game board and manipulates the Matrix-object
• Colors.py -> provides methods to ouut colored text to the terminal
• Leds.py -> controls the LEDs of the matrix

The project structure is intended to be used the following way: first create a game board by calling the Board-constructor, the board then creates a new matrix as fundament for the game board and manipulates the matrix according to the game logic, so the programmer of the game logic should only use the Board class.

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Example:

from lib import GameBoard
import board

PIN = board.D18 # GPIO18
VERBOSE = True X = 8
Y = 15
gBoard = GameBoard.gameboard(X, Y)
m = gBoard.getMatrix()
# invert Matrix horizontally:
if VERBOSE == True:
    for y in range(m.Ymax):
        m.invert_horizontally(y)

print(m.toString(m.adresses))
gBoard.setAllLeds((0, 0, 0))
print(m.toString())

gBoard.setBlock(0, 5, 'i_block')
gBoard.updateLEDS()
print(m.toString())
gBoard.wait(1)

gBoard.setBlock(1, 3, 'o_block')
gBoard.updateLEDS()
print(m.toString())
gBoard.wait(1)

gBoard.setBlock(2, 6, 'l_block')
gBoard.updateLEDS()
print(m.toString())
gBoard.wait(1)

gBoard.setBlock(3, 3, 'z_block')
gBoard.updateLEDS()
print(m.toString())
gBoard.wait(1)

gBoard.setBlock(4, 10, 't_block')
gBoard.updateLEDS()
print(m.toString())