“Nice bit of kit. Just about squeezes between the layers of a Pibow case although it's tight and bends slightly so don't overtighten the nuts on the case - as another reviewer says, a little bit of cutting of the case would give it that last bit of room.
I have this running as an air quality display with a BME680 Breakout on top, working nicely, the 28 LEDs give a good horizontal range for a graph and you have all the colours to play with too.
Not having to solder it avoids issues with shorter header pins, as unless you're really neat and very sparing with the solder on shims it can reduce how far the pins can go into pHAT sockets on top unless you use a header with longer pins. Having said that, I have a Button SHIM soldered on another Pi Zero W with the normal length header and a Unicorn pHAT on top of that and it makes sufficient contact without a problem.”
“W00t! Got this today and after some finagling around on the command line I finally got this working on Kali Linux (which the install script says isn't supported).
Very pretty lights, which will soon be used to indicate Kali network scanning info :-)
BTW, getting it working on Kali wasn't too hard, rough summary was:
1. enable i2c via some edits to /etc/modules and /boot/config.txt (if "sudo i2cdetect -y 1" shows a little table with a 75 in it, you're good).
2. apt install a bunch of python3 libs for i2c and rpi development (python3-rpi.gpio, python3-smbus, python3-setuptools)
3. clone the github repo for led-shim into ~/Pimoroni/led-shim
4. run the led-shim installer script
5. apt install any bits you missed (think I got them all above)
6. reboot for great glory”
“ordered rather quickly without reading, just needed a board with some leds for notifications, however when this arrived not only were the leds tiny, the board was too and doesnt need soldering. Best bit is the leds are red green blue meaning it can be programmed to display any colour. All the software you need is easily downloaded and installed with a couple of commands and can be up and running in minutes, this is what i love about pimoroni products. next it comes with a huge library of examples to get you started, another great product from the ninjas, pirates, monkeys and not forgetting the robots.”
