The Raspberry Pi Sense HAT is an add-on board for Raspberry Pi, made especially for the Astro Pi mission.
Rapspberry Pi Sense HAT is a sensor packed add-on to your Raspberry Pi 3, 2, B+ and A+ boards. It mounts on top of your Raspberry Pi and all you need to do is run your code.
It has integrated sensors that can measure humidity, acceleration, temperature, pressure and 3D orientation. Also you get an 8×8 LED matrix for displaying data read through all these sensors.
Programming Sense HAT is very simple with a Python library available to get started quickly and easily. Check out the AstroPi website, containing a host of ideas and instructions.
Installation:
- Connect your Sense HAT to the Raspberry Pi via the 40 GPIO Pins
- Open up a terminal and run the following command:
- wget -O – http://www.raspberrypi.org/files/astro-pi/astro-pi-install.sh –no-check-certificate | bash
- When the install is finished you will need to reboot your Raspberry Pi.
Features:
- Gyroscope
- Accelerometer
- Magnetometer
- Barometer
- Temperature sensor
- Relative Humidity sensor
- 8×8 LED matrix display
- Small 5 button joystick
Package Includes:
1 x Raspberry Pi Sense HAT
