“Perfect! Friction fits perfectly onto the pins of any naked Pi. It doesn't fit on any of my Pis in Coupe Pibows which is a shame, but it will do if I use a GPIO extender.
I'd love to be able to use it at the same time as one of my HATs, but it's not compatible with the standoffs without attempting to file/cut down the SHIM. One day I'd hope to see a slightly-differently-shaped board which fits alongside a HAT on standoffs.
Still, I have a pHAT Stack I can use it with and it's excellent!”
“Great for experimenting.
It fits easily and does not impede other hats. I currently have an InkyPhat installed on top of this LEDshim. The bright LEDs give eye-catching alerts and the InkyPhat provide further details when required.
The library code is straight-forward and uses the same function names as other hats, so it is possible with a single line change to use the blinkt instead (allowing for the difference in LEDs of course).
Very pleased with this board.”
“Bought this along with some other bits. Love it! Playing with the example for the minute, the CPU and Memory ones didn't work at first because they need psutils
Installing via apt-get doesn't work you'll need to do:
sudo apt-get install build-essential python-dev python-pip
sudo pip install psutil
sudo python -c "import psutil"
If I can do it anyone can.”
“This is by far one of the easiest to use addressable RGB LED setups I've seen.
First - the I2c setup means it doesn't use many pins and the example code and libraries are brilliant. None of the faff associated with the WS2812's. No level shifting required.
Second - the friction fit requires no soldering and unlike other hat types, being a shim, the gpio pins are still available for other purposes.
Third - the tiny size and positioning of these 24 LED's mean they look great. And it's rigid, instead of trying to get LED strips to stick (and stay stuck) on the robots.
I am really very impressed by this tiny board.”
