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Description
PiGlow is an addition tothe Raspberry Pi version of 3B+, 3B, 2B, B+, A+, Zero, Zero W, containing 18 multi-colored LEDs. Each of them can be controlled individually through the popular I2C bus. The device can be used as: creator of ambient lighting, the indicator for the current operating system load, or an indicator of incoming email messages.
Main characteristics of the board:
- 18 colored LEDs: 3 red, 3 orange, 3 yellow, 3 green, 3 blue and 3 white,
- Communication via I2C interface
- The possibility to control the brightness of each LED (via the PWM SN3218 driver),
- A large number of availablefree examples of projects,
- The system is fully assembled, requires no soldering,
- The access to controller is possible withPython,
- It fits to most available cases for the Raspberry Pi, including the popularMulticomp Farnelland Rainbow.
Video
The presentation of the PiGlow module.
A sample programs
- The sample code on GitHub, along with documentation of the module
- Driver for wiringPi- author Gordon Henderson
- Description of control of the PiGlow via Scratch- author Simon Walters
- The Python class, with a sample program in GitHub- author Jason Barnett
- This program with added gamma correction - author Ben Lebherz
- Library Node.js on GitHub - by Manuel Ernst
- PiGlow as a status display for XBMC- author Falldeaf
- Perl module- the author Jonathan Stowe
Raspberry Pi 3 B+
The module can be also connected tothe Raspberry Pi, leaving the free additional connectors of GPIO.
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