Unicorn HAT Mini

Name: Unicorn HAT Mini
Brand: Pimoroni
SKU: PIM498
Price: 21.90 GBP
Availability: OutOfStock

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Over one hundred RGB LEDs, all individually-controllable, and four tactile buttons. It's the ultimate pocket-sized rainbow generator for Raspberry Pi!

Unicorn HAT Mini is a 17x7 matrix of RGB LEDs that can be controlled, both in terms of colour and brightness, to display animations, text, simple images, and more. The four tactile buttons add tonnes of utility to control the colour or brightness of the LEDs, or as controls for simple games, or whatever else you like.

There's no fiddly soldering, as the header is pre-attached. Just pop it onto your Raspberry Pi and start pooping out rainbows faster than you can say "Richard of York gave battle in vain".

Features

17x7 matrix of RGB LEDs (119 total)
Individual colour/brightness control of each LED
Holtek HT16D35A LED matrix driver chip (x2)
Four tactile buttons
Mini HAT-format board
Fully-assembled (no soldering required)
Compatible with all 40-pin header Raspberry Pi models
Python library
Dimensions: 65x30x10mm

Software

We've put together a Python library for Unicorn HAT Mini that makes it simple to control individual LED's colour and brightness, display images or test, make games, and more. There's some really fun examples of how to use the buttons for games, with Simon Says and a fun little Columns-type game with coloured, falling blocks.

Notes

Unicorn HAT Mini uses non-smart RGB LEDs, the same as our Unicorn HAT HD, rather than NeoPixel or DotStar-type addressable LEDs, driven by two LED matrix driver chips (the Holtek HT16D35A).

Because the pixels and the driver chip are different to all of our other Unicorn boards (Unicorn HAT, Unicorn pHAT, Unicorn HAT HD, Ubercorn), examples and code written for those other boards won't run directly without a few tweaks to the code first.

Over one hundred RGB LEDs, all individually-controllable, and four tactile buttons. It's the ultimate pocket-sized rainbow generator for Raspberry Pi!

PIM498

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SKU

PIM498

EAN

0606034880948

Brand

Pimoroni

Stock available

0 units
Backorder not allowed on this product

Weight

14g

Country of origin

Tariff code

8528529900

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