Raspberry Pi Sense HAT

by Raspberry Pi

Make your Raspberry Pi into an Astro Pi with Sense HAT 🚀 Pressure, humidity, temperature and orientation sensors combined with a beautiful 8x8 LED matrix!

Attach the HAT to your Pi's GPIO pins and you can use the integrated circuit based sensors for many different types of experiments, applications, and even games.

The sensors enable you to read:

  • Orientation (yaw, pitch & roll) via an accelerometer, 3D gyroscope and magnetometer
  • Pressure
  • Humidity
  • Temperature

The Sense HAT supports a whole host of projects for the Raspberry Pi, it can measure how fast is the Pi itself travelling (i.e. measure your speed), how hot is it? how humid is it? (air humidity), which direction is the Raspberry Pi facing?

The LED Matrix enables you to display the data from the various sensors, it can show you which way is geomagnetic North by programming a compass using the magnetometer, or simply be used to play games like Tetris, Pong and Snake with the joystick. The joystick can also be used to enable a human user to interact with the programs running on the Raspberry Pi Sense HAT.

Writing programs for the Sense HAT is very simple, with a Python library available to get started quickly and easily. For truly out of this world projects check out the AstroPi website, which contains a host of ideas and instructions for using the Raspberry Pi and Sense HAT on the International Space Station (ISS).

Technical Specification

  • Gyroscope – angular rate sensor: +/-245/500/2000dps
  • Accelerometer - Linear acceleration sensor: +/-2/4/8/16 g
  • Magnetometer - Magnetic Sensor: +/- 4/8/12/16 gauss
  • Barometer: 260 – 1260 hPa absolute range (accuracy depends on the temperature and pressure, +/- 0.1 hPa under normal conditions)
  • Temperature sensor (Temperature accurate to +/- 2 degC in the 0-65 degC range)
  • Relative Humidity sensor (accurate to +/- 4.5% in the 20-80%rH range, accurate to +/- 0.5 degC in 15-40 degC range)
  • 8x8 LED matrix display
  • Small 5 button joystick

(N.B. Since the board heats up, the temperature readings from these sensors are not going to accurately reflect ambient temperature)

Getting Started

 Find out how to get to grips with the Sense HAT Python library at the link below:

Documentation

11 customer reviews

4 years ago
A simple but useful cable for a project where the MicroSD card slot is inaccessible. If you need one I can highly recommend this one from Pimoroni.
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5 years ago
Really useful item so you don't have to mess around removing cases to change your sd card, also if you building a project allows easy access to sd
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5 years ago
came very quick plugged in my 3D printer, have used it ever since. Great Product Highly Recommended
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6 years ago
Excellent... I needed this for my car Pi and it has made life so much easier. The install is quite condensed into a very small area and the need to make the sd card external and accessible was top of the list.
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7 years ago
Mine hasn't arrived yet, but I hope it will fit my Smarti-Pi Touch case. I will review it if it is excellent. My plan B has always been to boot from USB. Simon C should see this article: https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberrypi/bootmodes/msd.md
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8 years ago
Having received the AIY project with the Magpi magazine, I found this bit of kit an essential extra. It's long enough such that the end of the cable cam be tucked underneath the AIY card board case lid.
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