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5x5 RGB Matrix Breakout Reviews

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Timothy Bennett
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Bright and saturated, and a doddle to program. So good that after 3 days I went and bought the 7x11 version too!
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Posted 2 years ago
Andrew OCallaghan-Williamson
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Very well made board, and just the right size for building into a voice assistant project to show activity and notifications - just needs to create a 3D printed reflector to get the patterns.
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Posted 2 years ago
Jonathan Davies
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This breakout was bought to go with the Pico Explorer board (which is awesome to get started with), and is a very good addition as it plugs in and a bit of coding and you are away. First off was the demo code, very good to show the colours and as a pixel test as it cycles all the pixels through each colour. However, that was not enough so I wrote my own code to do a countdown from 10 to 1 in green, then change to a flashing 0 in red. The code then goes on to do other things but the effect is really good. The only drawback is the LED's in the matrix are not addressable which would have made it easier to code. But the advantage and fun coding are a code use of time and learning. Once you workout the grid, letters or numbers are a doddle. I should note at this point that there might be an easier way to code the numbers, but it works and is good fun. Now to get some more ;-)
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Posted 2 years ago
All of the colours, in a little tiny package! Very responsive.
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Posted 2 years ago
Paul Linsmayer
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Bright little matrix with a lot of possibilities!
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Posted 3 years ago
DAVID HEGGIE
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Bright, inexpensive, easy to use.
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Posted 3 years ago
DAVID HEGGIE
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Beautiful little board. So simple to use (as is the whole breakout garden range) in both C and Micropython on the Pi Pico with either the Explorer base or the Pico breakout garden pack. I've been playing with it displaying different colours depending on the temperature read from the BME270 breakout on a Pico in C and it's great fun.
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Posted 3 years ago
Ross Cruickshank
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with the Breakout Garden, ths was really easy to hook up and actvate. to make it even easier, I wrote a Node-RED node to allow it to be controlled with flow-based programming. (https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-red-contrib-5x5rgb-rpi)
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Posted 3 years ago