“Have a stack of headless pi-zero W's that I was planning to mount to the backside of my main monitor, and now I can have status displays for them all that sit on the monitor edge.
Soldered this up in about two minutes and was off on a mission to deploy rainbows.
Install script does not enable SPI in config.txt, needed to do that on my own, no big deal.
5V pin for me caused distorted colors (no colors matched). It also seemed to cause a problem with the BL pin.
Connected to 3.3V pin and all my troubles with the colors went away.
Install script did not download the latest from github, and as such deployrainbows.gif was missing. I had to download that manually, again, not a problem.
gif.py did not display the gif for me with rotation=90, which is default for the library. I had to adjust the code to swap width/height to get it to display correctly when rotated to 90/270.
The overall initial experience was a little lacking, but I feel awesome since I got everything working.
Pros:
Wiring Directions are compete.
Looks amazing - Colors are bright. Viewing angle is insane (in the membrane).
Smooth animation on deployrainbows.gif and other samples.
Definitely worth the money.
Cons:
None that I can see.”
