“Excellent addition to help me with my Python. Sadly the colour sensor doesn't work on mine despite various tries fixing it, but it's only one of many sensors to play with. And the led matrix is fun”
“I was stuck with my Raspberry Pi Sense Hat not initialising and to be frank on the point of declaring it faulty having tried multiple test routines.
I even went to see how easy a return might be; when I came a cross a useful piece of information on the PiHut site.
https://support.thepihut.com/hc/en-us/articles/360014446178-Sense-HAT-not-working
"Force the Sense overlay to load - Sometimes a quick configuration change is required to force the Sense HAT overlay to load, to allow the Pi to recognise the device. To do this, follow the steps below:
In a terminal window, enter sudo nano /boot/config.txt
Add the following line: dtoverlay=rpi-sense
Reboot your Raspberry Pi (you can use command sudo reboot)"
With that I was away and my Astro-Pi application is working fine.
To get over the temperature sensor being influenced by the Pi microboard, I have separated the two using a ribbon cable.
Maybe someone should consider manufacturing / marketing a case for the Sense Hat.”
“Nice little tool for learning and a wide variety of neat features.
Love the display and the access to sensors.
Joystick is useful for providing inputs e.g. switching functions (if you use it that way)
However, I don't have a use for it, outside of learning, which makes it an expensive unit, especially as the PI has a software emulator for the same device.”
“Great unit - but took a little fathoming out on the P400.
My issue was that the OS image for the PI400 needed an entry in the config.txt file
dtoverlay = rpi-sense
and it also needs I2C enabled.
I only found out about this after googling. The strange thing, is that without these two settings the rainbow display is ON - with them - it is OFF. So if you boot and the rainbow stays on - you probably have a problem to solve.”
“Nice piece of kit. Does every thing it claims. My only problem? I do not have enough time to spend playing with it!!! Fitted it to a rpi zero with 32GB card.
Thank you Pi Hut. Keep up the good work.
Arthur.”
“great bit of kit. I think the calibration on the temperature sensor is about 8 degrees to high though. Good for showing kids program and what you can do and how to display information of the 8x8 pixel grid.”
