Give your Raspberry Pi a NeoPixel #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi

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Everyone loves Raspberry Pi and everyone loves NeoPixels, so let’s get a NeoPixel directly under your Raspberry Pi’s control!

The Pi can set the NeoPixel to any RGB color and you can create scripts to update it up to 100 times per second.

For a few cents worth of parts (actually just one part!) and a single IO pin, you can give your Pi…

  • an animated multicolor status light
  • an i-style breathing power indicator
  • an adorable single pixel Ambilight back-light behind your tiny screen
  • a sunrise-synchronized night light

The possibilities are endless!

Make it Blink!
To get this working, all you need is…

  • a Raspberry Pi
  • a NeoPixel
  • some wire

I got my NeoPixel by snipping it off the end of a long string of NeoPixels, but you can use any kind of WS2812B NeoPixel including the new handy single pixel size.

Connect the NeoPixel to the PI like this…

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The NeoPixel is getting power from the Pi’s 3V3 pin and data from Pi’s P1-08 pin. The ground connection from the NeoPixel can connect to any GND pin on the Pi, I just used P1-06 because it was close. Note that you will leave the NeoPixel’s data out (DO) pin unconnected.

Once you have everything hooked up, you will need some software to drive it. I’ve written a little command-line utility called neouart that lets you set the color of the connected NeoPixel and even animate it.

Read the full tutorial here!

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