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Mood Light - Pi Zero W Project Kit

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A beautifully modern Mood Light that'll look great on your bedside table, bookcase, or desk, and it's internet-connected!

Pimoroni's Mood Light Kit has everything* you'll need to build a sleek looking light that evokes a real pendant light, and uses a Unicorn pHAT board with 32 programmable RGB Neopixel LEDs. Set it to a single colour, have it fade through all the colours of the rainbow, or harness the built-in wireless LAN on the Pi Zero W. It'll take around 30 minutes to assemble everything** (check out the assembly guide for details).

Kit contents*

  • Pi Zero W
  • Unicorn pHAT with 32 programmable RGB Neopixel LEDs
  • Male and female 2x20 pin headers
  • White and yellow pendant light stand and diffuser
  • 50cm USB A to micro-B cable
  • USB A (female) to micro B (male) adaptor
  • Mini to full-size HDMI adaptor
  • Sticker sheet (personalise your Mood Light!)
  • Comes in a reusable kit box

*Just add your own micro-SD card

**Note that this is a soldering project, although you could use one of our no-solder hammer headers!

Mood Light uses the popular Unicorn pHAT board, with 32 programmable RGB Neopixel LEDs, giving you a veritable rainbow full of colour possibilities. The stand cleverly mounts the Pi Zero W and Unicorn pHAT at just the right angle to cast the light through the pendant light cutout and diffuse it beautifully.

The built-in wireless LAN on the Pi Zero W 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 colours once you've pulled the daily sunset/sunrise times from your favourite weather server.

Features

  • 8x4 matrix of programmable RGB Neopixel LEDs
  • 3-layer white and yellow pendant light stand and diffuser
  • Pi Zero W with single core CPU and built-in wireless LAN and Bluetooth
  • Adaptor kit
  • 50cm USB A to micro-B cable (power your Pi from an existing charger or computer)
  • Python library
  • Female and male headers require soldering

Software

Pimoroni's handy one-line installer will install the Unicorn pHAT Python library for you. They've included a bunch of examples too, to show off what you can do with Unicorn pHAT.

Notes

Assembled size of Mood Light is 85x125x70mm (WxHxD).

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