Blinkt! https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/blinkt

Eight super-bright RGB LED indicators, ideal for adding visual notifications to your Raspberry Pi on their own or on a pHAT stacking header.

Installing

Full install (recommended):

We’ve created an easy installation script that will install all pre-requisites and get your Blinkt! up and running with minimal efforts. To run it, fire up Terminal which you’ll find in Menu -> Accessories -> Terminal on your Raspberry Pi desktop, as illustrated below:

In the new terminal window type the command exactly as it appears below (check for typos) and follow the on-screen instructions:

curl https://get.pimoroni.com/blinkt | bash

Alternatively, on Raspbian, you can download the pimoroni-dashboard and install your product by browsing to the relevant entry:

sudo apt-get install pimoroni

(you will find the Dashboard under ‘Accessories’ too, in the Pi menu - or just run pimoroni-dashboard at the command line)

If you choose to download examples you’ll find them in /home/pi/Pimoroni/blinkt/.

Manual install:

Library install for Python 3:

on Raspbian:

sudo apt-get install python3-blinkt

other environments:

sudo pip3 install blinkt

Library install for Python 2:

on Raspbian:

sudo apt-get install python-blinkt

other environments:

sudo pip2 install blinkt

Development:

If you want to contribute, or like living on the edge of your seat by having the latest code, you should clone this repository, cd to the library directory, and run:

sudo python3 setup.py install

(or sudo python setup.py install whichever your primary Python environment may be)

Documentation & Support

Guides and tutorials - https://learn.pimoroni.com/blinkt
Function reference - http://docs.pimoroni.com/blinkt/
GPIO Pinout - https://pinout.xyz/pinout/blinkt
Get help - http://forums.pimoroni.com/c/support

Unofficial / Third-party libraries

Golang library & examples by Alex Ellis - https://github.com/alexellis/blinkt_go_examples
Java library by Jim Darby - https://github.com/hackerjimbo/PiJava

0.1.2

BugFix: Added sleep to data output, see: https://github.com/pimoroni/blinkt/issues/62

0.1.1

New: Added get_pixel to return colour and brightness of a single pixel

0.1.0

Removed try/except from RPi.GPIO import, output was misleading at best
Reverted default behaviour of clear on exit

0.0.9

Added set_all method to set all pixels
Changed default behaviour of clear on exit to reduce module side-effects
Move GPIO initialisation to show() to reduce module side-effects

0.0.8

Tweaked some methods to show intent as implementation detail only
Added docstrings detailing public methods

0.0.7

Fixed bug with APA102 pixels that have a small, black die (vs the larger, paler one)

0.0.6

set_clear_on_exit now method

0.0.5

Range clamping and coercion to integers

0.0.4

Various bug fixes

0.0.3

Switch to Python

0.0.2

Bug fixes for C Library

0.0.1

Original C Library

Release files for blinkt 0.1.2

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Source distribution (sdist)

Source distribution for blinkt 0.1.2
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Built distributions (wheels)

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blinkt-0.1.2-py2-none-any.whl 6.6 kB May 23, 2018	Python 2	none	any	Details

Total release size: 18.3 kB

Release files / blinkt-0.1.2.tar.gz

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Release files / blinkt-0.1.2-py3-none-any.whl

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