3D Xmas Tree for Raspberry Pi Pre-soldered Kit Reviews

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“For me, the example code only lit up a single LED and didn't do much more. I adopted it into something that seems to work better (for me): from gpiozero import LEDBoard from gpiozero.tools import random_values from time import sleep tree = LEDBoard(*range(2,28),pwm=True) while True: for led in tree: led.source_delay = 2 led.source = random_values() sleep(5)”

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Posted 6 years ago

“This was my first build project and I added a header to my pi zero to poke out of the bottom of the case. However when the LEDs wouldn't behave I realised that the build picture shows the header on the component side of the pi zero boards. Now waiting for a 40 pin male to female ribbon to correct my mistake. If you've read this far you have been warned.”

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Posted 6 years ago

“Kit went together very easily, but I soldered the two wings on, as one of them didn’t make very good contact. Blinking away now like a good ‘un. Possibly one of the greatest wastes of computing power of all time, it’ll get dragged out every year!”

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Posted 6 years ago

“I love this little xmas tree idea. Its a great way to Tesch kids to switch light on or oft.”

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Posted 6 years ago

“Just the mapping of pins to LEDs.... I worked it out by hand (2's the star, 3's unknown) and put together this bit of code for a cascade of LEDs... from gpiozero import LEDBoard from time import sleep from signal import pause treelights=[ 18, 5, 9, 11, 21, 10, 7, 12, 6, 1,14, 3, 20, 24, 13, 15,2, 17, 16, 23,8, 22, 4, 19 ] treemap={ 1:4, 7:5, 16:6, 22:7, 6:8 , 14:9, 8:10, 21:11, 15:12, 3:13, 19:14, 2:15, 9:16, 10:17, 20:18, 18:19,17:20, 4:21, 24:22, 23:23, 13: 24, 5:25, 12:26, 11:27 } leds=LEDBoard(*range(4,28), pwm=True) def labelToPin(l): return treemap[l] def toBoard(l): return labelToPin(l)-4 while True: for i in treelights: sleep(0.1) leds.on(toBoard(i)) for i in treelights: sleep(0.1) leds.off(toBoard(i)) Have fun...”

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Posted 6 years ago

“Works great on this side of the channel too! It would be nice to get some auto-boot code so that my boys can just turn it on in their room. As a beginner in the Pi World, I'll have to dive deeper into the PI code to do that. Thanks PiHut for a nice kit and an innovative ordering process which made it even more desirable.”

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Posted 6 years ago

“From a UK supplier I have ordered the GPIO Hammer Header (complete of Solderless male headers) for RPi Zero. This to avoid any soldering to place XMAS pre-soldered version on the RPi Zero. To cut the lateral arm of the XMAS tree I have used a nail clipper. In about 5 min I have completed the assembly job and following the instructions ( The Pi Hut) I have tested the XMAS tree with the about 8 rows of its python code example. The result was an artistic sound of red lights around an alone yellow star.”

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Posted 6 years ago

“Nice piece of kit But would have liked some other coloured LEDs a few green ones would make this tree look so much better, as a beginner would also be nice to see some more code for this online”

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Posted 7 years ago