“Worked great out of the box. Worked great until the Pi got dropped on something conductive.
Because only the first LED went up in a puff of smoke, I could just bypass it with a jumper and still have 7 working LEDs.”
“This kit is very cool I got one free with an order when I spent over ВЈ100 at the Pimoroni birthday sale. I have used it as mood lighting behind my projector and an indicator for a Pi-mote kit both hooked up to a Raspberry Pi Zero.
It has taught me how to do basic coding in python with the excellent library easily downloaded from the command line on a raspberry pi.
It is extremely easy to get to grips with and has 8 individually controllable LES's that are very bright on full power !
It works brilliantly with the diffused and frosted pibow layers and looks very nice as shown in the product pictures.
Yet again another great product from Pimoroni!”
“This device is so simple, yet so useful - it's genius! It does what the description say it does - 8 individually controlled LEDs. The LEDs themselves are very bright and colorful and seem to be of high quality. At their highest they are bright enough to almost lit a small room. In fact one of the first projects I intend to use blinkt is as a flashlight for my picamera.
But where blinkt! really "shines" (see what I did there) is in the software. The Pimoroni guys provide a very simple install script, that would automatically install everything you need to get started with the device including drivers and example scripts, showing a lot of possible ways to utilize blinkt. You control it completely with Python code and you don't need to know all the low-level protocols and procedures usually associated with devices that are controlled and powered via the GPIO pins. The provided software offers the perfect level of abstraction for beginners and advanced users alike. There is also a very useful tutorial that describes the basics of coding the blinkt and I would recommend to check the Pimoroni YouTube channel if you want to see the device in action.
For me I find the best way to tinker with it, is to reverse engineer their example scripts - they cover some advanced stuff as well. All in all - blinkt! is a lot of fun! I hope to see more in-house made ingenious (and affordable) gadgets like that.”
“I buy this to use with my PiZero for fun.
Now I use it as a simplified voting system linked to the Mattermost (#slack open source) of my office and everyone can turn on the led with a simple slash command \o/
Really easy to use and fun to play with !”
“After getting a free Pi Zero with my sub to MagPi, I wanted to buy something to make a simple project on. The Blinkt! was a perfect first project. I studied the tutorials and played around with the lights, then had the idea of incorporating them into my walk to infinity along Gaussian primes. I wanted to have my little Pi Zero show me which Gaussian prime numbers it was finding on its infinite walk in the plane of complex numbers. I have written a C program to perform such a walk as part of my main MSc dissertation project in pure mathematics at Birkbeck College, University of London. This C program has been running on various Linux computers for over a year and it has reached approx. 100 billion units from the origin, at 97,912,135,379 + 97,912,162,926i, stepping on more than 23,312,400,000 Gaussian primes. I have recently amended it to perform a call to this Python program every time the C program finds a new prime number, passing the real and imaginary parts of the Gaussian prime as a single string. It does this by using a simple system( ... ) call from within the running C program. For more info on Gaussian integers and primes, see this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussian_moat. I am really pleased that this little ВЈ5 gadget attached to a ВЈ5 computer shows my prime search program running in a way that is so ... well ... enlightening!”
