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Dynamic Object Animation in SCADA Systems

📖 Scenario: You are working on a SCADA system that monitors a factory floor. You want to animate a machine icon to show its operational status dynamically.This project will guide you through creating a simple animation setup that changes the machine icon's color based on its status.

🎯 Goal: Build a dynamic animation configuration that changes the color of a machine icon based on its status in a SCADA system.

📋 What You'll Learn

Create a dictionary called machine_status with the machine's name and its current status.

Add a configuration variable called color_map that maps statuses to colors.

Write a function called get_machine_color that returns the color based on the machine's status.

Print the color of the machine icon using the function.

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

In SCADA systems, dynamic animations help operators quickly see machine statuses by changing colors or icons on the control screen.

💼 Career

Understanding how to map machine states to visual cues is essential for SCADA engineers and DevOps professionals working with industrial automation.

1

Create the machine status dictionary

Create a dictionary called machine_status with the entry 'MachineA': 'running'.

SCADA systems

# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use curly braces to create a dictionary with the key 'MachineA' and value 'running'.

2

Add the color mapping configuration

Add a dictionary called color_map that maps 'running' to 'green', 'stopped' to 'red', and 'idle' to 'yellow'.

SCADA systems

machine_status = {'MachineA': 'running'}
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Create a dictionary with keys as statuses and values as color strings.

3

Write the function to get machine color

Write a function called get_machine_color that takes a machine name as input and returns the color from color_map based on the machine's status in machine_status. Use machine_status[machine] to get the status.

SCADA systems

machine_status = {'MachineA': 'running'}
color_map = {'running': 'green', 'stopped': 'red', 'idle': 'yellow'}
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Define a function that looks up the status and returns the matching color.

4

Print the machine icon color

Print the color of 'MachineA' by calling get_machine_color('MachineA').

SCADA systems

machine_status = {'MachineA': 'running'}
color_map = {'running': 'green', 'stopped': 'red', 'idle': 'yellow'}
def get_machine_color(machine):
    status = machine_status[machine]
    return color_map[status]
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use print(get_machine_color('MachineA')) to show the color.