The Kitronik ZIP Halo HD is an attractive battery-powered circular board with 60 “ZIP” multicolour LEDs and a real-time clock (RTC) for the BBC micro:bit. The board was originally designed for the micro:bit V1 with most of the example code in MakeCode. This article shows how to make an accurate clock and stopwatch with many colourful background modes in MicroPython on the micro:bit V2 (only). The backgrounds are implemented as classes and the plentiful examples should make it easy for you to make your own.
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