Our Pimoroni pals have curated a beautifully modern Mood Light Kit that’ll look great on your bedside table, bookcase, or desk. It’s even internet-connected!
This kit has just-about-everything you’ll need: Pimoroni’s Unicorn pHAT board with 119 programmable RGB Neopixel LEDs, diffuser, power adapter, and a beautifully acrylic enclosure to make it look like a lamps. It even includes a Pi Zero WH. All you need is to add your own micro-SD card and USB power supply. It’ll take you around 30 minutes to assemble everything (check out Pimoroni’s assembly guide for details). With this new version, no soldering is required!
Set it to a single color, have it fade through all the colors of the rainbow, or harness the built-in wireless LAN on the Pi Zero WH.
The built-in wireless LAN on the Pi Zero WH opens up a wealth of opportunities: connect it to your Twitter feed and track the mood of your recent tweets, or fade through the sunset and sunrise colors once you’ve pulled the daily sunset/sunrise times from your favorite weather server.
Features
17×7 matrix of programmable RGB LEDs
3-layer white and yellow pendant light stand and diffuser
Pi Zero WH with single core CPU and built-in wireless LAN and Bluetooth
Adapter kit
50cm USB A to micro-B cable (power your Pi from an existing charger or computer)
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