Raspberry Pi: Sense Hat

Summary

This documentation deals with the Raspberry Sense Hat.

Requirements

• Hardware: Raspberry Pi
• Operating system: Rasbian
• Interpreter: Python or Python3
• Packages: sense-hat

Description

This add-on board has a is packed with three sensor chips as wall as a 8 by 8 RGB Led matrix and a joystick. The Sensors are a barometer, a hygrometer and an IMU (Inertial Measurement Unit). The barometer measures the air pressure and the temperature. The hygrometer measures the humidity and the temperature as well. The used IMU holds a gyroscope, an accelerometer and a magnetometer for an accurate determination of rotation, movement and detection of magnetic fields.

Package Installation

sudo apt-get install sense-hat

Python Programming

The Sense Hat is mainly used via python programming. The developers also developed a sense hat programming simulation program on trinket.io where you are able to test your code without owning the Sense Hat.

The Project comes with two main libraries the sense_emu which is needed when using the Emulator and the sense_hat for the device. For detailed information about the library use the documentation.

Importing the Libary

# emulator libary
from sense_emu import SenseHat
sense = SenseHat()

# sensehat libary
from sense_hat import SenseHat
sense = SenseHat()

Used Hardware

Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ Raspberry Pi Sense Hat

References

• https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/projects/getting-started-with-the-sense-hat
• https://pythonhosted.org/sense-hat/api/#sense-hat-api-reference
• https://trinket.io/sense-hat