“This is a brilliant Hat (pun intended) with a bucket load of potential.
I have used it for a personal project, which turned my Raspberry Pi 3 with Unicorn HAT HD (as well as with the SDR stick and dump1090 software) into a Radar Scope for the ADSB receiver. I can easily plot all aircraft within the range of my receiver on the Unicorn HAT HD, relative to the position of the receiver itself, and use the gazillions of colours available to present their altitude!
Loads of fun and very easy to use thanks to a nice Python library provided by the guys at Pimoroni. Highly recommended!”
“This is a great display, bright and colourful LEDs.
The last star is only because i would love to see a daylight sensor embedded, so i can dim the display, and that the LEDs should have some built in diffusion.”
“As always, with Pimoroni Hats, it works perfectly out of the box and the software support is top notch! Plenty of Python examples to get you started, even if you aren't a hardcore programmer it's easy to pick the examples apart to figure out how to do everything. For everything else, there's also awesome documentation that's easy to follow.
The product itself is super bright, slots straight into the hat securely but leaves a little bit of space on the headers in case you need to pop in a lovely little shim (for instance, the nano black hat hacker!).”
“I am having a great time with the Unicorn Hat HD! Pretty impressive waht you can display with the 16x16 matrix. Smooth, fast colors and the included diffuser and hardware makes it look great sitting atop the Pibow 3 Ninja Coupe. Highly recommended!”
“I have ordered just about all of the Pimoroni hat's, and i can quite confidently say this is my favourite! The high level of detail from such a tiny board, is amazing! I particularly like the demo.py script truly showing it's full glory!”
“Been looking for a fun project to play with on the Pi and this certainly lives up to that. Breeze to install and the example code produces some stunning effects on a quality bit of kit! Now to start delving into the Python - my project will be a full line up of Inky, Blinky, Pinky and Clyde chasing the Pac-Man ;)
Jon”
