“Blinkt is a very nice add-on for your raspberry pi. It's a tiny board but with very powerful leds. Really nice to use as an indicator for any IOT project. Futhermore it's easy to use.”
“Got two, installed them on my Pis, run the installation script, and could right start integrating Blinkt! into my projects. Perfect for simple status display, or a KITT effect when the RPis scan my networks for automation devices...
The only thing missing for me: a frosted plate to place on top of the LEDs, as otherwise I'm blinding people, even when running the LEDs at the lowest possible brightness!”
“Arrived today, very nice. I have included set_pixel in my python RPC setup (Raspberry colloid on the pi forum) so any of my 4 Pi's and other (Linux) computers can set any of the LED's using my simple zeroMQ proxy.
I had to modify the rainbow example to use my RPC proxy so that the gpio is controlled by one program, but with that I can run rainbow from any of the computers, at same time as led's changed by other computers (just a test....).
I wanted initially to use as simple heartbeat monitoring, but so many other possibilities....Can run rainbow from multiple computers at same time, etc...(?)
Green for heartbeat, red for motion detect....Wow, what fun!”
“Very easy to set up using the Pimoroni guide. I use it to display the status of my home-made NAS: CPU load, status of the RAID array (active/fault), status of each HDD (idle/standby/fault). I have set up the NAS to give its status on a web page, and then the Raspberry fetches periodically this status with a Python script.
One improvement of this product would be to sell a version with a male header (or with no header), in order to solder it onto a Raspberry Pi Zero (w) with a much more compact/slim design. The current female version attached to a male header on the RPI zero is unnecessarily tall and prevents from building a nice & slim system.”
“Worked great out of the box. Worked great until the Pi got dropped on something conductive.
Because only the first LED went up in a puff of smoke, I could just bypass it with a jumper and still have 7 working LEDs.”
