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Raspberry Pi Zero W Wireless Projects

You're reading from   Raspberry Pi Zero W Wireless Projects Go mobile with the world's most popular microprocessor

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788290524
Length 240 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Vasilis Tzivaras Vasilis Tzivaras
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The Sense HAT module

Sense HAT is an add-on board for Raspberry Pi 2 and 3, but it works with Raspberry Pi Zero as well. It was made especially for the Astro Pi mission.

The Sense HAT module looks as follows:

You can buy this from the official website, https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/sense-hat/. Sense HAT allows Pi to sense the world around it. With Sense HAT, we can display messages and images, control the orientation, gather sensor data, and respond to movement. As a result, Sense HAT is the easiest way of adding a ton of sensors to your Raspberry Pi Zero W board without buying and connecting jumpers to the breadboard. Sense HAT has the following functionalities:

  • Orientation (yaw, pitch, and roll) via an accelerometer, 3D gyroscope, and magnetometer
  • Temperature
  • Humidity
  • Pressure

It is also equipped with an 8x8 LED matrix that allows you to display data via various sensors...

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