Mood Light – Pi Zero W Project Kit

Description

A beautifully modern Mood Light that'll look great on your bedside table, bookcase, or desk, and it's internet-connected!Our Mood Light Kit has everything* you'll need to build a sleek looking light that evokes a real pendant light, and uses our Unicorn pHAT board with 32 programmable RGB Neopixel LEDs. Set it to a single colour, have it fade through all the colours of the rainbow, or harness the built-in wireless LAN on the Pi Zero W. It'll take around 30 minutes to assemble everything** (check out our assembly guide for details).

Kit contents*

Pi Zero W
Unicorn pHAT with 32 programmable RGB Neopixel LEDs
Male and female 2×20 pin headers
White and yellow pendant light stand and diffuser
50cm USB A to micro-B cable
USB A (female) to micro B (male) adaptor
Mini to full-size HDMI adaptor
Sticker sheet (personalise your Mood Light!)
Comes in a reusable kit box

*Just add your own micro-SD card

**Note that this is a soldering project, although you could use one of no-solder hammer headers!

Mood Light uses our popular Unicorn pHAT board, with 32 programmable RGB Neopixel LEDs, giving you a veritable rainbow full of colour possibilities. The stand cleverly mounts the Pi Zero W and Unicorn pHAT at just the right angle to cast the light through the pendant light cutout and diffuse it beautifully.

The built-in wireless LAN on the Pi Zero W opens up a wealth of opportunities: connect it to your Twitter feed and track the mood of your recent tweets, or fade through the sunset and sunrise colours once you've pulled the daily sunset/sunrise times from your favourite weather server.

Features

8×4 matrix of programmable RGB Neopixel LEDs
3-layer white and yellow pendant light stand and diffuser
Pi Zero W with single core CPU and built-in wireless LAN and Bluetooth
Adaptor kit
50cm USB A to micro-B cable (power your Pi from an existing charger or computer)
Python library
Female and male headers require soldering

Software

Our handy one-line installer will install the Unicorn pHAT Python library for you. We've included a bunch of examples too, to show off what you can do with Unicorn pHAT.

Notes

Assembled size of Mood Light is 85x125x70mm (WxHxD).

Documents:

Product page

Tutorials:

Assembling Mood Light

Additional information