“The LED matrices look amazing, proper retro futuristic styling and very easy to build as well.
The python library is very easy to use and I was up and running in no time.”
“The first thing I did was wrap a REST API around it: https://github.com/pikesley/pHAT-REST/blob/master/README.md
Then I built a Towers Of Hanoi solver to run on it: http://sam.pikesley.org/projects/hanoi-jane/
This thing really is a lot of fun, think I might get a green one next...”
“I'm fairly experienced with soldering so it didn't take me too long to build the display and the final result is spectacular. I'm using mine as a clock with automatic brightness control so it is as dim as it can go at night and full brightness at midday with a slow transition between the two over a few hours. the dimmest setting is dark enough to not be intrusive at night, which is great!
The only negative I would say is that it does produce a noticeable high pitched buzzing / humming noise when the brightness is turned up but it is silent at the dimmest setting so this isn't a big problem for me.”
“First of all - this is my first DIY project that required actual soldering (for GPIO I've used brilliant hammer-head, but the LED's had to be soldered the old fashioned way ;)) so it was quite a bit of challenge for me since I haven't used soldering iron before. But the actual assembly wasn't that difficult and it was quite fun.
The display itself looks really nerdy and gives you enough space to display some notifications. The beauty of it is that you have to think of a way to use 6 LED-matrix display to display enough information in a user friendly way. The python library however supports various ready-made commands that are easy to use and the examples provide enough inspiration to get you started.”
“This phat looks great and has a good library. The one thing that lets it down is the spacing between the matrix is a bit too big for the horizontal scrolling text to look as good as it could. Every other functions looks great especially the vertical scrolling.
Despite the amount of pins to solder I had it up and running in little time and only had one row of LEDs not working that I had to go back and check the solder.”
“This is a great little kit that turns into one of the best Pi HAT's I have seen.
IMO this is a must have pHAT for all Pi and Pi Zero owners to either enhance other HAT's and/or projects or to use alone for some pixel blinking and scrolling fun. Easy to use with some fairly simple coding thanks as always to the great libraries, examples and tutorials from the folks of the good ship Pimoroni.
Cheers guys!”
