https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/microdot-phat
Micro Dot pHAT is an unashamedly old school LED matrix display board, with up to 30x7 pixels, using the Lite-On LTP-305 matrices. Perfect for building a retro scrolling message display or a tiny 30 band spectrum analyser.
We've created an easy installation script that will install all pre-requisites and get your Micro Dot pHAT up and running with minimal efforts. To run it, fire up Terminal which you'll find in Menu -> Accessories -> Terminal on your Raspberry Pi desktop, as illustrated below:
In the new terminal window type the command exactly as it appears below (check for typos) and follow the on-screen instructions:
curl https://get.pimoroni.com/microdotphat | bashAlternatively, on Raspbian, you can download the pimoroni-dashboard and install your product by browsing to the relevant entry:
sudo apt-get install pimoroni(you will find the Dashboard under 'Accessories' too, in the Pi menu - or just run pimoroni-dashboard at the command line)
If you choose to download examples you'll find them in /home/pi/Pimoroni/microdotphat/.
on Raspbian:
sudo apt-get install python3-microdotphatother environments:
sudo pip3 install microdotphaton Raspbian:
sudo apt-get install python-microdotphatother environments:
sudo pip2 install microdotphatIf you want to contribute, or like living on the edge of your seat by having the latest code, you should clone this repository, cd to the library directory, and run:
sudo python3 setup.py install(or sudo python setup.py install whichever your primary Python environment may be)
In all cases you will have to enable the i2c bus.
- Guides and tutorials - https://learn.pimoroni.com/microdot-phat
- Function reference - http://docs.pimoroni.com/microdotphat/
- GPIO Pinout - https://pinout.xyz/pinout/micro_dot_phat
- Get help - http://forums.pimoroni.com/c/support
- Java library by Jim Darby - https://github.com/hackerjimbo/PiJava