Ubuntu is lighting up the Raspberry Pi this week with the first of a two-part collection of Unicorn HAT tutorials from our resident Pi developers, Dave ‘waveform’ Jones and William ‘jawn-smith’ Wilson.
In part 1 we start with a couple of simple Unicorn pHAT projects for those just getting started. This is followed by a more advanced case study from Dave on how to set up a dashboard for his exciting piwheels project using the Unicorn HAT.
This is a guest post from William’s blog, which he’s kindly allowed us to share here. Check out his site for more great Pi tutorials as well as some equally colorful 3D printing projects.
As of Ubuntu 22.04, the Pimoroni Unicorn hats are supported on Ubuntu out of the box. This includes the standard Unicorn Hat, Unicorn pHAT, Unicorn HAT Mini, and Unicorn HAT HD.
To install the libraries for each HAT, run the following commands:
sudo apt install python3-unicornhat
sudo apt install...
