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Raspberry Pi Sense HAT
From the course: Raspberry Pi Essential Training
Raspberry Pi Sense HAT
- The Raspberry PI Sense HAT provides a quick and inconvenient way to explore physical input and output. It fits right on top of the Raspberry PI and doesn't need any additional jumper wires to connect to the GPIO. Just match the Sense HAT pins to the GPIO and carefully push. The Sense HAT package also includes spacers that will improve the stability of the assembly. The Sense HAT has an eight by eight RGB LED matrix, a joystick with push button, a gyroscope, accelerometer, and magnetometer, a barometer and a thermometer and a humidity sensor. Programming the Sense HAT is just as convenient as installing it. Both Scratch and Python have built-in support and there is even an emulator for Python. So it's possible to experiment with the Sense HAT even if you don't have one. Let's take a look at programming the Sense HAT with Python. I've included this program in the example files. The very simple program, converse the Sense HAT compass reading to a color on the Sense HAT LED matrix…
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