“It's easy to set up, the examples are great, it just works. A Pi Zero 4 in a C4Labs case works beautifully; the Blinkt board sit perfectly on the surface of the case; looks really sharp. I got three to use for various status monitors.
I'd like to add my vote for a version with male headers that could be soldered on flush with the Pi ZW. It would fit inside many cases, protecting the leds and even adding a frosted look with some cases.”
“This is the perfect companion for the RPi Zero W . I already had a cheerlights project using a ESP8266 from Adafruit, but using the Pimoroni Pibow and the blinkt! just cheers a lot more !
The examples available and the ideas that arise are just awesome . A must have !”
“Blinkt is a great add-on for your Pi that will get you into Python and soon you will be dreaming up all kinds of ways to make this thing light up. The price and quality is fantastic! Everything Pimoroni creates is top notch do not hesitate on this one.”
“I'm just starting out with Python and this was a great introduction on how to program and utilize a Pi add-on. Once going through the code, and trying out the examples, I now have it running as a Binary clock on my desk. I also want to mention that the build quality of the strip is top-notch and solid. The LEDS are also really bright. You can tell Pimoroni places a lot of care in items they produce.
I plan on purchasing 4 more for a project I'm trying.”
“Blinkt is a very nice add-on for your raspberry pi. It's a tiny board but with very powerful leds. Really nice to use as an indicator for any IOT project. Futhermore it's easy to use.”
“Got two, installed them on my Pis, run the installation script, and could right start integrating Blinkt! into my projects. Perfect for simple status display, or a KITT effect when the RPis scan my networks for automation devices...
The only thing missing for me: a frosted plate to place on top of the LEDs, as otherwise I'm blinding people, even when running the LEDs at the lowest possible brightness!”
“Arrived today, very nice. I have included set_pixel in my python RPC setup (Raspberry colloid on the pi forum) so any of my 4 Pi's and other (Linux) computers can set any of the LED's using my simple zeroMQ proxy.
I had to modify the rainbow example to use my RPC proxy so that the gpio is controlled by one program, but with that I can run rainbow from any of the computers, at same time as led's changed by other computers (just a test....).
I wanted initially to use as simple heartbeat monitoring, but so many other possibilities....Can run rainbow from multiple computers at same time, etc...(?)
Green for heartbeat, red for motion detect....Wow, what fun!”
“Very easy to set up using the Pimoroni guide. I use it to display the status of my home-made NAS: CPU load, status of the RAID array (active/fault), status of each HDD (idle/standby/fault). I have set up the NAS to give its status on a web page, and then the Raspberry fetches periodically this status with a Python script.
One improvement of this product would be to sell a version with a male header (or with no header), in order to solder it onto a Raspberry Pi Zero (w) with a much more compact/slim design. The current female version attached to a male header on the RPI zero is unnecessarily tall and prevents from building a nice & slim system.”
