Pi Pico - Conway's Game of Life - Demonstration With Code

You can read about the origin of this Game here:

Conway's Game of Life - Wikipedia

Coding this game has often been an early project when a programmer got access to a new display screen. I've recently taken delivery of two new screens from Pimoroni. The larger has 240 x 240 pixels on a Pico Explorer Base, while the smaller has 240 x 135 pixels on a Pico Display. Both devices are driven by the recently released Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller coded using MicroPython.

Once running you can generate a new colony by hold button A and halt the execution of the program with the Y button.

I've included downloads for both screens.

As you can see I've based these scripts on Steve Baine's post for Pico Unicorn Pack (7 x 16 LEDs) on Pimoroni's Forum. They provide examples of the performance of the Pico with these displays.

Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller

Pico Explorer or Pico Display from Pimoroni