Getting Started with Blinkt!
Learn how to install and get started with your Blinkt!
Beginner / LEDsThis lovely little (14.2mm) seven segment display provides excellent segment uniformity and is highly visible up to seven meters away. It's ultra bright, and provides great readability even in bright ambient light!
It has four digits and a decimal point on each digit, designed for numeric output, so you can use it to add a clock, timer or counter into your next project.
These displays are multiplexed, common-cathode. What that means it that you can use a 74HC595 or just 8 microcontroller pins if you can spare them to control the 8 anodes (7-seg decimal) at about ~15mA each, and then connect NPN transistors or a TPIC6B595 to the cathodes to sink the 8*20mA = ~120mA maximum per digit.
This is an ultra bright RED colour.
Specifications
Description:
It's easy to set up, features a great resolution, comes complete with a black acrylic stand, and has touch by default!
Recent upgrades:
If you were used to seeing the Self Test at power on, this has now been removed. However if you remove the jumper located on the controller board you can re-enable this feature.
This device uses the Pi's HDMI output for display, and the Pi's USB port for touch control. Assembly of the Waveshare 10.1" screen is easy, just follow this simple guide here.
Please Note. This device does require some simple set up. You will need a UK to EU power adapter.
The LCD Screen Features:
The Case Features:
What's in the box?:
1 x HDMI 10.1" Touch Screen
1 x Acrylic panels
1 x HDMI cable
Resources:
User Manual
Quick Assembly Guide
Eight super-bright RGB LED indicators that are ideal for adding visual notifications to your Raspberry Pi without breaking the bank!
Inspired by Alex Ellis' work with his Raspberry Pi Zero Docker Cluster, we developed these boards for him to use as status indicators. Blinkt! offers eight APA102 pixels in the smallest (and cheapest) form factor to plug straight onto your Raspberry Pi.
Each pixel on Blinkt! is individually controllable and dimmable allowing you to create gradients, pulsing effects, or just flash them on and off like crazy. The data and clock lines are connected to GPIO #23 and #24 respectively but for simplicity you can just use our Python library to drive them.
Features
Software
Our Blinkt! Python library will have you blasting out rainbows in two shakes of a unicorn's tail! There's a stack of examples too, from binary clocks to cheerlights and flickering candles to Larson scanners!
Notes
We featured Blinkt! on a special episode of Bilge Tank where we tried to come up with as many different code examples as possible in one morning. Check it out below.
Learn how to install and get started with your Blinkt!
Beginner / LEDsUse cron to run scripts on boot on your Raspberry Pi
Beginner / Raspberry PiThis product contains only the display. Raspberry Pi, case and cables are shown for illustration purposes only and not included.
Description:
The cute PiTFT got even more adorable with this little primary display for Raspberry Pi in HAT form! It features a 2.2" display with 320x240 16-bit color pixels. The HAT uses the high speed SPI interface on the Pi and can use the mini display as a console, X window port, displaying images or video etc. Best of all it plugs right in on top of your Model A or B and fits into our case quite nicely.
It's designed to plug directly onto the Raspberry Pi 2 or Raspberry Pi 1 Model A or B . While not specifically designed for Pi Model A or B,you can use it with A/B if you solder in an extra-tall 2x13 header (not included) instead of the included 2x20 header.
This design uses the hardware SPI pins (SCK, MOSI, MISO, CE0, CE1) as well as GPIO #25. All other GPIO are unused and are available on a 25-pin long breakout line. Since we had a tiny bit of space, there's 4 flat tactile switches wired to four GPIOs, that you can use if you want to make a basic user interface. For example, you can use one as a power on/off button.
Comes as a fully assembled display PCB and an additional 2x20 GPIO header. Some light soldering is required to attach the 2x20 GPIO header to the HAT but it's fast and easy for anyone with a soldering iron and solder. You can also swap the plain female header we have with a 'stacky' type that lets you plug in a hat or GPIO cable on top or a slim ultra-low-profile header.
Technical Details
Tutorials
What's going to protect your beloved Raspberry Pi from an onslaught of rainbow-coloured fusion? That's right, it's Unicorn HAT.
Sporting a matrix of 64 (8 x 8) RGB LEDs and powered directly from the Pi, this is the most compact pocket aurora available.
Unicorn HAT provides a wash of controllable colour that is ideal for mood-lighting, 8x8 pixel art, persistence of vision effects, status indications, or just blasting colour into your surroundings.
The MagPi said that Unicorn HAT was "one of the coolest HATs around"
Features
Software
We've put together a Unicorn HAT Python library to make it a breeze to use, including lots of beautiful examples of what it can do.
Notes
Learn how to pixel paint mini works of art on your Unicorn HAT using your Pi and a web browser
Beginner / Unicorn HATLearn how to use Unicorn HAT and HSV colour to make awesome rainbows
Intermediate / Unicorn HAT
Learn how to use Unicorn HAT, the vibrant 8x8 pixel colour display for your Pi
Beginner / Unicorn HAT
Learn how to use Unicorn HAT in IDLE, the Python IDE
Beginner / Unicorn HAT
This RGB LED HAT can be easily attached on top of the Raspberry Pi to display colorful effect, and controlled by only one signal pin.
FeaturesIn the case of working with a MCU:
Description:
The MAX7219 are compact, serial input/output common-cathode display drivers that interface microprocessors to 7-segment numeric LED displays of up to 8 digits, bar-graph displays, or 64 individual LEDs. Included on-chip are a BCD code-B decoder, multiplex scan circuitry, segment and digit drivers, and an 8x8 static RAM that stores each digit. Only one external resistor is required to set the segment current for all LEDs.
Specifications:
1 single module can drive an 8 * 8 dot matrix common cathode
Module Operating voltage: 5 v
Module dimensions: length 32 mm X 32 mm wide X 13 mm high
4 mounting holes : diameter of 3 mm
Support for cascading multiple modules
Wiring instructions:
VCC: 5 v
GND: GND
DIN: P2.2
CS: P2.1
CLK: P2.0
13.3inch IPS screen, 1920x1080 high resolution. Toughened class cover. Supports Raspberry Pi and can also be used as a computer monitor.
Wiki : www.waveshare.com/wiki/13.3inch_HDMI_LCD_(H)_(with_case)
Note: to use the LCD with following mini-PCs, additional cables are required and should be purchased separately:
Raspberry Pi Zero: HDMI cable, USB-type-A-receptacle-to-Micro-B-plug-cable
BB Black: HDMI cable
Wiki : www.waveshare.com/wiki/7inch_HDMI_LCD_(C)
FAQFor more info, please check the wiki page.
Use Four Letter pHAT to display... four letter words. Not that sort!
Pi ZERO and case not included!
Four Letter pHAT has four 14-segment displays that you can use to display text, numbers, and a host of other characters. Its LEDs are a beautiful retro green, just like you old digital alarm clock. They're driven by the HT16K33 chip over I2C.
It's perfect as a readout for your projects, displaying temperatures, times, etc. and becomes really useful when combined with some of our other boards like Enviro pHAT or Explorer pHAT to display their sensor values.
Features
Software
Our handy one-line installer will install the Four Letter pHAT Python library for you. We've included a bunch of examples too, to show off what you can do with Four Letter pHAT; things like a clock, a countdown timer, or CPU activity monitor.
Is this not the cutest little display for the Raspberry Pi? It features a 2.8" display with 320x240 16-bit color pixels and a capacitive touch overlay. That's right, instead of a resistive touchscreen, which requires a fingernail or stylus, you can now use a fingerpad.
The screen looks much nicer, with a black bezel and glass overlay.
This updated design fits perfectly onto the Pi Zero, Pi 3, Pi 2 or Model A , B ! (Any Pi with a 2x20 connector) Not for use with an old Pi 1 with 2x13 connector. This version also has all 40 pins GPIO pins brought out so you can connect a 40-pin GPIO cable underneath.
The display and touchscreen uses the hardware I2C Pins (SDA & SCL), SPI pins (SCK, MOSI, MISO, CE0) as well as GPIO #25 and #24. All other GPIO are unused and you can still share the I2C pins with sensors, LED drivers, etc. Since we had a tiny bit of space, there's 4 slim tactile switches wired to four GPIOs, that you can use if you want to make a basic user interface. For example, you can use one as a power on/off button.
Use it for console access or easily pop up X11 onto the PiTFT for a mini monitor, although its rather small at 320x240. Instead, we recommend using PyGame or other SDL-drawing programs to write onto the frame buffer.
Raspberry Pi computer and enclosure not included! As of July 22nd, 2015 this display comes fully assembled with tactile switches too
TECHNICAL DETAILS
Datasheets, EagleCAD PCB files, Fritzing object and more in the tutorial!
This is a colorful display module designed for the BBC micro:bit, 1.8inch diagonal, 160x128 pixels, capable of displaying 65K colors.
Tired of the 5x5 LED matrix? Time to get a tiny monitor for your micro:bit, this one would be the ideal choice.
FeaturesPIN | micro:bit PIN | DESCRIPTION |
---|---|---|
3V3 | 3V3 | Power |
GND | GND | Ground |
MISO | P14 | SPI data master input/slave output |
MOSI | P15 | SPI data master output/slave input |
SCK | P13 | SPI clock input |
LCD_CS | P16 | LCD chip selection |
RAM_CS | P2 | SRAM chip selection |
DC | P12 | LCD data/command |
RST | P8 | LCD reset |
BL | P1 | LCD backlight |
Raspberry Pi and case not included
Great for including a colourful character display and button inputs on your Raspberry Pi based projects!
Includes a 16x3 character LCD display, 6-zone RGB LED backlight, bar graph, and six capacitive touch buttons all in one slim package.
It's ideal for controlling your internet radio or home automation projects.
Features
Software
Our Display-O-Tron Python library will get you going in a jiffy, and makes controlling Display-O-Tron HAT really easy.
We've included examples showing you how to use the backlight, bar graph LEDs, and touch buttons, as well as more advanced examples showing you how to create menus, games and even an internet radio!
Notes
If you want to keep your Pi in a case, we recommend the Pibow Coupé case as it will allow you to still use the capacitive touch buttons.
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