Pulling it all together with the Pi Sense Hat

I don't go over many shields in the book, but there are a few that combine a lot of useful features for a low cost and are readily available on the Internet. One of those shields is the Sense Hat: for only $30 US, it combines eight sensors with a joystick and 8x8 RGB LED matrix. This is a quick and easy way to track several sensors with just a little hardware.

Getting ready

The Raspberry Pi Sense

Hat is available through most retailers that sell the Raspberry Pi. The Raspberry Pi Foundation website (www.raspberrypi.org) has links to the retailers for its products.

Make sure you have the latest version of the Python libraries installed with sudo apt-get install sense-hat python-sense-hat.

Note

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