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Author: pid1

.gitignore

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 # PyPI configuration file
 .pypirc
+.DS_Store
+.vscode
+

README.md

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 # kernel-of-truth
+
 A MagTag quote board
+
+![Demo Image](demo.png)
+
+## Client Requirements
+
+MagTag code is written in CircuitPython. The following libraries are required:
+
+- Adafruit MagTag
+- Adafruit MagTag Libraries
+  - adafruit_bitmap_font
+  - adafruit_io
+  - adafruit_magtag
+  - adafruit_minimqtt
+  - adafruit_requests
+  - adafruit_ticks
+
+## Usage
+
+The MagTag display automatically updates every 24 hours with a new quote. Quotes are stored locally, so no network connectivity is required.

code.py

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+import time
+from adafruit_magtag.magtag import MagTag
+import random
+
+QUOTES = [
+    "The more I study, the more insatiable do I feel my genius for it to be. - Ada Lovelace",
+    "That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal; as time will show. - Ada Lovelace",
+    "Programming is the art of algorithm design and the craft of debugging errant code. - Ellen Ullman",
+    "The most damaging phrase in the language is: 'It's always been done that way.' - Grace Hopper",
+    "An algorithm must be seen to be believed. - Donald Knuth",
+    "Machines take me by surprise with great frequency. - Alan Turing",
+    "The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before. - Bill Gates",
+    "The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple. - Grady Booch",
+    "The best way to predict the future is to invent it. - Alan Kay",
+    "A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street. - Doug Linder",
+    "The most important property of a program is whether it accomplishes the intention of its user. - C.A.R. Hoare",
+    "The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers. - Richard Hamming",
+    "The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit. - Anonymous",
+    "The computer is a moron. - Peter Drucker",
+    "The computer is incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Man is unbelievably slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. The marriage of the two is a force beyond calculation. - Leo Cherne",
+    "The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. - Stephen Hawking",
+    "The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. - B.F. Skinner",
+    "The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim. - Edsger Dijkstra",
+    "The computing scientist’s main challenge is not to get confused by the complexities of his own making. - Edsger Dijkstra",
+    "The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state. - John Ousterhout",
+    "The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it’s too late. - Seymour Cray",
+    "The best programs are the ones written when the programmer is supposed to be working on something else. - Melinda Varian",
+    "The best way to get a project done faster is to start sooner. - Jim Highsmith",
+    "The best way to learn is to do. - Paul Halmos",
+    "The best way to understand recursion is to begin by understanding recursion. - Anonymous",
+    "The best way to predict the future is to create it. - Peter Drucker",
+    "The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it. - Alan Saporta",
+    "The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas. - Linus Pauling"
+]
+
+magtag = MagTag()
+
+magtag.add_text(
+    text_wrap=40,
+    text_position=(
+        (magtag.graphics.display.width // 2),
+        (magtag.graphics.display.height // 2),
+    ),
+    line_spacing=1,
+    text_anchor_point=(0.5, 0.5),  # center the text on x & y
+    text_scale=1,
+)
+
+quote = random.choice(QUOTES)
+magtag.set_text(quote)
+
+# wait 2 seconds for display to complete
+time.sleep(2)
+
+# sleep to save battery
+magtag.exit_and_deep_sleep(86400)