“Cosmic Unicorn is easy to use because MicroPython is preinstalled and debugging with Thonny works really well. I used my Cosmic Unicorn to build a clock that also displays the percentage of electricity from renewable sources: https://www.hackster.io/andreas-motzek/clock-and-green-energy-display-with-cosmic-unicorn-641dcb”
“Great product. I've been playing with this for a few days, pulling down (tiny) images from the network and displaying them using the LEDs. The result looks aesthetically pleasing and coding it was fun and relatively easy to do using the pimoroni-pico libraries. Display updates very quickly and I'm looking forward to playing around with little animations or something interactive.
The only change that I'd make is to add pre-soldered SWD headers to make the development cycle slightly easier when using C++. I appreciate I'm likely very much in a minority on that one, though!”
“I'm very excited about Galactic Unicorn. It's by far one of the things I've enjoyed the most lately. Every single LED can be controlled and so I can let off steam completely freely. My son uses it to pimp his gaming setup and I use it daily as a real time clock. Just a cool piece!”
“This board is incredible, so many applications are possible. It has a pico w on board so it's super flexible, WiFi and Bluetooth, even a little speaker. You can also connect two breakout boards with sensors and such. Incorporate data from the Internet and you've got yourself an info display with anything you desire to display! News, weather, sports scores, train times, anything! Epic LEDS from planet pimoroni! ”
“Works brilliantly from Thonny. I was easily able to set up the WiFi to use #cheerlights that change colour with a Tweet. I also reprogrammed the Nostalgia Prompt to show my favourite computer I work on at The National Museum of Computing.”
“Super impressive, bright LEDs and multiple programmable buttons, as well as a speaker, battery connector and JST-SH port significantly increase the utility of this versatile, stunning display!”
“This is a great board with great potential. I was playing around with some graphics and texts, and this looks promising. Everything works smoothly, very quick responses. I have not tested the Wireless features but I expect this to work well.
I have many ideas and not much time, but because the adoption rate is quick, you don't need a lot of time to start playing.”
“A great display, large and solid with convenient connectors on board for battery/i2c additions. The utilisation of Picigraphics makes this a breeze to make useful and impressive displays. The cost is very reasonable, I remember when a single blue LED would cost £80.00 which puts the cost of 500+ multicoloured LED's with a single board computer in perspective.”
