Microbit Sorting Hat

Here's a variation on the microbit magic 8 ball example themed after a well-known wizard school franchise and the ritual of deciding who goes into which house. Rather than wearing a hat, you can shake the microbit and have it decide on which house you belong in.

In common with the magic 8 ball, shaking the microbit is the trigger to invoking the program. First, the hat thinks for a while before picking a house at random, showing the house logo (more on that) and announcing the name of the house.

Code

from microbit import *
import random

# Images for the sorting hat and the four hogwarts houses
hat = Image(
            "07900:"
            "60750:"
            "07070:"
            "09090:"
            "99999")

# Snake            
slytherin = Image(
            "09999:"
            "90099:"
            "09940:"
            "40090:"
            "09940")
 
# Badger 
hufflepuff = Image(
            "99999:"
            "90909:"
            "90909:"
            "09090:"
            "00900") 

# Claw
ravenclaw = Image(
            "00900:"
            "00900:"
            "09990:"
            "90909:"
            "90909")

# Sword
gryffindor = Image(
            "00009:"
            "00090:"
            "90900:"
            "09000:"
            "90900")
            
choices = [

    ["Slytherin", slytherin],
    ["Hufflepuff", hufflepuff],
    ["Ravenclaw", ravenclaw],
    ["Gryffindor", gryffindor]
]

thinking = [

    "Hmm. Difficult",
    "Very Difficult...",
    "So where shall I put you?",
    "Ah, right then",
    "Hmm, right",
    "Hmm",
    "Okay",
    "Well, I know just what to do with you...",
    "Right, Ok",
    "Not Slytherin, Eh?"
]


# Game loop
while True:

    display.show(hat)

    if accelerometer.was_gesture("shake"):
        display.clear()
        display.scroll(random.choice(thinking))
        sleep(1000)
        
        house = random.choice(choices)
        
        # House name...
        display.scroll(house[0])
        # House picture
        display.show(house[1])
        sleep(2000)

Graphics

One of the biggest challenges with this program was coming up a representation of the sorting hat and the four houses that could be rendered in 5x5 LEDs. The sorting hat wasn't too bad but I had to severely compromise on the houses. I ended up after much experimentation and some tweaking with a snake (slyterin), a badger's head (hufflepuff), a claw (ravenclaw) and a sword (gryffindor). None of these will win any prizes but they are at least distinct and recognizable (I hope) in 5x5.