Pi-AstroPi

Sense-Hat  (AstroPi)

Features

8x8 RGB LED programmable matrix

Joystick

Humidity sensor

Gyroscope

Accelerometer

Temperature

Barometric pressure

Magnetometer  

8M 1080p Camera

6 general purpose programmable buttons

Sense-Hat software comes pre installed on Raspbian for the Pi

If not already installed

      $ sudo aptitude update

      $ sudo aptitude install sense-hat

You will have to manually edit /boot/config.txt

  add this line to the bottom

      dtoverlay=rpi-sense

  save the file, then reboot

      $ sudo reboot

Sample Python code:   to test the light grid

from sense_hat import SenseHat

import random

import time

sense = SenseHat()

sense.clear()

white=[255,255,255]

black=[0,0,0]

for loop in range(0,500):

 x1=random.randint(0,7)

 y1=random.randint(0,7)

 sense.set_pixel(x1,y1,white)

 x2=random.randint(0,7)

 y2=random.randint(0,7)

 sense.set_pixel(x2,y2,white)

 x3=random.randint(0,7)

 y3=random.randint(0,7)

 sense.set_pixel(x3,y3,white)

 x4=random.randint(0,7)

 y4=random.randint(0,7)

 sense.set_pixel(x4,y4,white)

 x5=random.randint(0,7)

 y5=random.randint(0,7)

 sense.set_pixel(x5,y5,white)

 sense.set_pixel(x1,y1,black)

 sense.set_pixel(x2,y2,black)

 sense.set_pixel(x3,y3,black)

 sense.set_pixel(x4,y4,black)

 sense.set_pixel(x5,y5,black)

sense.clear(white)

time.sleep(.05)

sense.clear()