Mote pHAT

by Pimoroni

Mote pHAT lets you run our beautiful Mote lights straight from your Pi or Pi Zero, for a super-compact setup. Connect up to 4 Mote light strips, with our Mote cables, to the 4 channels provided and away you go! That's up to 64 pixels.

The socket header comes un-soldered, so you can combine Mote pHAT with our other pHATs to display sensor readings or control Mote with buttons or switches.

The MagPi said that "Mote pHAT offers a compact, discreet way of controlling them without the need to connect to the USB port of a laptop or Pi" and that it was "great value" in their four star review.

Features

  • Four Mote channels (using microUSB connectors)
  • Up to 64 RGB LEDs with 4 of our 16 pixel Mote strips
  • 2x LC125A quadruple bus buffer gates
  • Mote pHAT pinout
  • Compatible with all 40-pin header Raspberry Pi models
  • Python library
  • Socket header requires soldering

Software

We've put together a Python library to make using Mote pHAT really simple, and ported many of the examples from our standalone Mote library especially for Mote pHAT.

Kits

We've also put together some handy Mote pHAT kits that include:

Perfect for whipping up some smart programmable lighting for your desk, kitchen, or a nearby Ikea Kallax (the Mote strips fit conveniently in the segments) - you just need to add a Raspberry Pi. Check out Ellora's smart bin reminder video for some inspiration!

7 customer reviews

a year ago
Used with the breakout garden. Works perfectly with the provided python library, just make sure to remove the film over the sensor! Within minutes you can start measuring distances and have them update live using the provided examples.
by Harry about VL53L1X Time of Flight (ToF) Sensor Breakout via REVIEWS.io
3 years ago
This little sensor works brilliantly. There's a lot of supporting code for it. The way the pins are staggered makes soldering easy. Just remember to remove the protective film! perhaps the one thing that it could change would be to breakout the XSHUT pin somewhere - on the side so it keeps the breakout garden profile.
by Daniel about VL53L1X Time of Flight (ToF) Sensor Breakout via REVIEWS.io
7 years ago
This thing is pretty neat and fast to respond. It does have issues if there is nothing in its path, as it will randomly jump to something very close, when in fact there is nothing there at all. But if you have something within its range, it detects changes very well.
by Chad about VL53L1X Time of Flight (ToF) Sensor Breakout via REVIEWS.io

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