Pimoroni’s GFX HAT is a shiny new LCD Display with RGB Backlight and Touch Buttons! This is a seriously snazzy LCD that can display complex graphics for all your headless Pi games and animations. While the LCD is monochrome 128×64 pixels, the backlight can be set to different RGB colors to indicate.
You also get six capacitive touch buttons for input and navigation, so you can use this as a controller too. The cool capacitive touch backlight colors are super soothing to tap on and off, and help you know that the touch was registered.
To top it all off, this HAT comes fully assembled with Python support to get you up and running, and since it’s from Pimoroni you know it’s going to look great on your next Raspberry Pi project.
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