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If you"re tired of buying different hats for every occasion, if you"re constantly switching between favorite sports teams, or if you want a flashy, versatile, and unique hat that no one else has, then we"ll show you how to make a relatively easy, customizable hat that can display any combination of colors, images, and animations that you can fit into an 8x8 LED display.

You"ll need to make a template of the LED matrix to size the area to cut from the screen material, and from the hat. The template should be about 1/4" wider on each side of the square so there is enough room for a border and attachment to the hat.

You can make a protective screen cover for the display that protects the LED matrix and helps to hide the LED matrix circuit board. This screen will be applied on the outside of the hat. Place the paper template on the center of the full-face sun visor, and trace the border with a marker. The contour of this sun visor matches well with the contour of the hat. Cut the traced-out area with a pair of sharp scissors.

The screen will not look very good if applied directly on the hat, so we borrowed some material from the inside flap of the hat to create a border around the screen. Use a VERY sharp pair of fabric shears to cut this strip of material out. We didn"t have any shears, so we used a pair of tin snips. Make sure to leave a few inches of the flap in the hat. We"ll use this flap to tuck the electronics in later. With this particular hat, we started the cut on one end about an inch away from the label.

You"ll need to sew the material you just cut out to the border of the screen. But since it"s really hard to get a needle through the plastic, take a small drill bit and drill holes about 5 to 8 millimeters apart along all four sides.

Next, cut the border material into 4 strips, each the length of one side of the screen. Then, taking a sewing needle and thread, sew the material around the border using the pre-drilled holes. We used a running stitch pattern. It’s okay if the corners have some overlap; it’ll look fine once it’s attached to the hat.

Since the LED matrix and electronics will be mounted to the inside of the hat, we need to cut out a hole from the hat for the display. Take the same paper template made earlier, and center it very carefully on the inside of the hat. Trace the template with a maker, and cut out the area. We found a box cutter with a sawing motion worked quite well and created fairly clean cuts. Don"t worry if the edges aren"t very clean; they will be covered up by the borders of the screen.

We can now attach the screen to the hat. Simply sew the screen onto the hat using the cloth border (you don"t have to puncture the plastic material). We used the same running stitch sewing pattern.

Now the hat is finally ready for the LED matrix. Luckily there"s no more sewing involved. Carefully center the 8x8 RGB Flexible LED Matrix behind the square hole with the wires facing towards the flap of material you left to house the electronics. Then take some Gorilla tape and apply it to the border of the LED matrix.

You"ll also want to remove the top two sets of wires from the back of the LED matrix before taping it to the hat. You can do this by heating up the contacts where the wires are attached with a soldering iron. The above picture shows the silver electrical contacts where the wires used to be attached.

The display is controlled by a small Flora Wearable Electronics Platform from Adafruit. You"ll need to solder on some wire extensions to the leads coming out of the display so that the electronics platform can be attached. Use enough wire to extend to the inside of the flap left in the hat at step 3.

Tape down the wires along the inside of the hat running towards the flap using Gorilla tape. Connect the Adafruit 3.7V 500mAh Lithium Ion Polymer Battery to the electronics platform. Then tuck both the battery and electronics platform into the flap. We found that the components stayed in there pretty well without any assistance.

Display HAT Mini features a bright 18-bit capable 320x240 pixel display with vibrant colours and formidable IPS viewing angles, connected via SPI. It"s got four tactile buttons for interacting with your Pi with your digits and a RGB LED for notifications. We"ve also squeezed in a QwST connector (Qwiic / STEMMA QT) and a Breakout Garden header so it"s a doddle to connect up different kinds of breakouts.

It will work with any model of Pi with a 40 pin header, but we think it goes with the Raspberry Pi Zero particularly well - we"ve included a pair of standoffs so you can use to bolt HAT and Pi together to make a sturdy little unit. To accommodate the screen Display HAT Mini is a bit bigger than a standard mini HAT or pHAT - it"s around 5mm taller than a Pi Zero (so a Mini HAT XL or a Mini HAT Pro, if you will).

Display HAT Mini lets you turn a Raspberry Pi into a convenient IoT control panel, a tiny photo frame, digital art display or gif-box, or a desktop display for news headlines, tweets, or other info from online APIs. This screen is a handy 3:2 ratio, useful for retro gaming purposes!

To get started, follow the installation instructions in the Display HAT Mini library. This library contains some examples of how to use the screen, buttons and LED with Pygame. You can also find examples for this screen in our ST7789 Python library, these show you how to write and draw on the screen using PIL to display shapes, text and gifs.

We"ve also been having fun with fbcp-ili9341 - a high level framebuffer driver for SPI-based LCD displays. The Raspberry Pi OS desktop is a leeetle small on a 2.0" screen, but this might be a good option if you"re doing something like building your own custom retro console.

If you have a Breakout Garden breakout without a Qw/ST connector, you can either pop one of these adaptors on the end of your cable, or you can plug a Breakout Extender into the header at the other end of Display HAT Mini (you can find it next to your Pi"s SD card slot).

The buttons are close to the edge of the screen, so it"s worth taking a bit of care when pressing the buttons that you"re not also pressing down on the screen, particularly at the edge with the ribbon cable.

Please note that because of Display HAT Mini"s extra size, it will overhang adjacent slots on expansion boards like pHAT Stack, Black HAT Hacker, HAT Hacker HAT and Flat HAT Hacker. No shame - every HAT is valid, every HAT is beautiful.

We"ve found two standoffs to be sufficient to keep this HAT firmly in place, but if you want to add standoffs at every corner of your Zero so you can use it to stop a tank or something you can pick up more here.

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This is an E-Ink display HAT for Raspberry Pi, 2.13inch, 250x122 resolution, with embedded controller, communicating via SPI interface, supports partial refresh.

Due to the advantages like ultra low power consumption, wide viewing angle, clear display without electricity, it is an ideal choice for applications such as shelf label, industrial instrument, and so on.

From bucket to trucker hats, there’s no cap to the possibilities for personalization with Cricut Hat Press. Compatible with Cricut Iron-On, and Infusible Ink sheets and pens, Cricut Hat Press lets you gift, sell, or keep (for yourself) a homemade hat crafted with professional quality.

The pressing form fits a variety of adult-sized hats, like sun hats and ball caps, to provide a firm surface for curved materials. Cricut Hat Press comes with customizable heat settings by material and three presets, heating up to 400°F (205°C) to work with all major brands of iron-on (HTV), Infusible Ink, and sublimation products.

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Note: You will notice that the pixel values you pass into set_pixels sometimes change when you read them back with get_pixels. This is because we specify each pixel element as 8 bit numbers (0 to 255) but when they"re passed into the Linux frame buffer for the LED matrix the numbers are bit shifted down to fit into RGB 565. 5 bits for red, 6 bits for green and 5 bits for blue. The loss of binary precision when performing this conversion (3 bits lost for red, 2 for green and 3 for blue) accounts for the discrepancies you see.

For advanced users. Most users will just need the low_light Boolean property above. The Sense HAT python API uses 8 bit (0 to 255) colours for R, G, B. When these are written to the Linux frame buffer they"re bit shifted into RGB 5 6 5. The driver then converts them to RGB 5 5 5 before it passes them over to the ATTiny88 AVR for writing to the LEDs.

The gamma property allows you to specify a gamma lookup table for the final 5 bits of colour used. The lookup table is a list of 32 numbers that must be between 0 and 31. The value of the incoming 5 bit colour is used to index the lookup table and the value found at that position is then written to the LEDs.

The IMU (inertial measurement unit) sensor is a combination of three sensors, each with an x, y and z axis. For this reason it"s considered to be a 9 dof (degrees of freedom) sensor.

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By following our step-by-step guide, you will discover how to light up rainbow and heart images on the Sense HAT’s LED matrix, as well as showing a custom scrolling message. If you don’t have a Sense HAT, you can still try out the code using the Sense HAT Emulator in Raspbian.

The Sense HAT sits on top of your Raspberry Pi and adds the ability to sense and report details about the world around it. It can measure noise, temperature, humidity, and pressure, for example. The Sense HAT can show readings on an 8×8 LED matrix, but first needs to be instructed, using Python code, what sort of data it should look for. The Sense HAT’s visual display can also be programmed to show specific details including simple images. In this tutorial we’ll look at how to control the LED matrix. Don’t worry if you don’t have a Sense HAT as you can use the Sense HAT Emulator and try out the code in Raspbian.

Shut down your Raspberry Pi (if it isn’t already) before attaching the Sense HAT to it. Hold the Sense HAT above your Raspberry Pi and line up the yellow holes at each corner with the corresponding ones on Raspberry Pi; make sure the header on Sense HAT lines up with the GPIO pins on Raspberry Pi. The white LED matrix should be at the opposite end of your Raspberry Pi from the USB ports. Gently push the Sense HAT onto Raspberry Pi’s GPIO pins and then screw the two boards together with standoffs.

When Raspbian loads, select Programming from the top-left raspberry menu, then choose Thonny Python IDE. Click the New icon to open a new, untitled window. We need to get our program to recognise the Sense HAT module. To do this, type these two lines of code into the Thonny window:from sense_hat import SenseHat

From now on, Thonny will know to use the Sense HAT whenever you type ‘sense.’ followed by a ‘.’ and a command. Let’s get the Sense HAT to say hello to us. Add this line of code to line 4 in Thonny:sense.show_message("Hello Rosie")

We need to tell set_pixel() which LEDs we want to light up, using x and y variables to correlate to the axes of the Sense HAT’s 8×8 grid of LEDs – see Figure 1. We also need to tell set_pixel() the colour using a three-digit code that matches the RGB (red, green, blue) value for each light.

Working with the RGB values soon becomes frustrating. So it is much easier to create a set of variables for each three-number value. You can then use the easy-to-remember variable whenever you need that colour.r = (255, 0, 0) # red

Writing messages in Python to show on your Sense HAT is really straightforward. You just need to decide on a few words to say and type them into a sense.show_message() command, as we did right at the start.

By now, you will be able to see the potential of making patterns to display on your Sense HAT. You can experiment by making the colours chase each other around the LED matrix and by altering how long each colour appears.

You can try out this tutorial using the Sense HAT Emulator in Raspbian. To install it, search for ‘sense’ in the Recommended Software tool. Note: If using this Emulator, you’ll need to replace from sense_hat with from sense_emu at the top of your Python code (but not if using the online Sense HAT emulator).

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Pervasive Displays and Pi-Supply worked together to bring to market a HAT module, called the PaPiRus, for the Raspberry Pi that is capable of driving ePaper displays of various sizes with ease, making use of their existing open source RePaper codebase and examples.

ePaper is a display technology that mimics the appearance of ink on paper. Unlike conventional displays, ePaper reflects light - just like ordinary paper - and is capable of holding text and images indefinitely, even without electricity. Because of this, ePaper displays and single board computers or microcontrollers are a match made in heaven as together they use a very small amount of power while still bringing a display to your project.

We are very excited to offer this very interesting HAT compatible display breakout for hackers who want to start playing with small ePaper / eInk displays in their Raspberry Pi projects. PaPiRus was originally launched on Kickstarter, and is now available to purchase!

The PCB assembly has a lot of driver circuitry required to keep the display running smoothly as well as an EEPROM for HAT compatibility and easy plug and play operation with the Raspberry Pi. All signals are broken out to a 40 pin female header. The display included in this offering is a 2.7" diagonal and 128 x 96 resolution true ePaper / eInk graphical display. These are intended for use as small dynamic signage in grocery stores since a barcode displayed on it can be scanned by a laser barcode-reader. The display does not require any power to keep the image and will stay on without any power connection for many days before slowly fading. Of course, its also daylight readable and is very high contrast. This makes it excellent for data-logging applications, outdoor displays, or any other ultra-low power usages.

The good news is that rePaper/PDI have provided a suite of example code for the Raspberry Pi along with datasheets. Tons more information including wiring diagrams, datasheets & and links to example code at rePaper!