“Perfect for testing out I/O ports along with a couple of Button Shims for inputs ... shame they don't do an 8-switch Button Shim, or even a combined I/O Shim with 8 LEDs and 8 buttons.”
“If you need a mess-free LED control without breadboards, resistors and jumper cables to deal with this is a perfect solution. You will however need to use its library if you're coding in Python. It will also need some additional coding to control directly from a GPIO pin unlike a simple on/off state through code. Plenty of examples are provided to use as a starter for any custom programming. For this price, it's highly recommended.”
“LED Shim worked perfectly and arrived within days in Canada from the UK. Couldn't be happier! This is a great addition to my robot and will give visual insight into what the sensors are seeing.
thanks!”
“This works very nicely and the Python examples provided are a great starting point for my own ones. I calculated though that using it to count seconds in binary would take about six years!
If I hadn't read earlier reviews I might have been surprised at the small size and lack of brightness of the LEDs but I have other high-brightness displays so this is perfect for me.
Pimoroni also seem to have cracked getting post through to the EU without problems which is great. Some other suppliers are still struggling.”
“I fitted the led shim to a Pi Hut "Ethernet and USB HUB HAT", that I had attached to Pi Zero. The fit wasn't perfect and required a bit of persuading - probably not the led shim's fault.
I use it to flag the status of other devices in the internal network, with different colours to indicate "good response", "slow response" and "no response". Some colours are better than others, but choose the right ones and it works well”
