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LED SHIM Reviews

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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.
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Posted 3 years ago
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
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Posted 4 years ago
Michael Lauer
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Great little SHIM. I do wish though there would be more form factors and sizes.
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Posted 4 years ago
Michael Lauer
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Great value for the price, glad that it works without soldering!
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Posted 4 years ago
Very cool shim. Several examples, or code your own. Easy setup.
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Posted 4 years ago
Easy to program, and easy to attach to a bare pi, but very hard to fit with certain cases. The fillets near the GPIO connections don't fit into the GPIO cutouts on a lot of cases. Assuming there isn't a case in the way, the fitment is fantastic and it's really easy to add these LEDs into your program
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Posted 4 years ago
James Herbert
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Neat and tidy LED display.
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Posted 4 years ago
Daniel Staple
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I love this little device. It's really easy to install, comes with great code and docs. I will be buying more of them.
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Posted 4 years ago