Scroll pHAT HD

by Pimoroni

A whole heap of LED pixels with individual brightness control, for scrolling messages, animations, and more - Scroll pHAT HD!

Scroll pHAT HD packs 17x7 pixels (119 total) onto a single pHAT, and gives you full PWM brightness control over each pixel. Create beautiful animations and even anti-aliased text by taking advantage of the per-pixel brightness.

Now also available in beautiful coloured versions: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and pink!

Use Scroll pHAT HD as a scrolling message display for your tweets, the weather or the news, or use it as a 17-band spectrum analyser for your audio. There's even enough pixels for simple games like Tetris, Pong, or snake.

Features

  • 17x7 matrix of bright white, or coloured, pixels (119 total)
  • Individual PWM brightness control of each pixel
  • Uses the IS31FL3731 LED matrix driver chip
  • Scroll pHAT HD pinout
  • Compatible with all 40-pin header Raspberry Pi computers
  • Python library
  • Female header requires soldering

Software

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

58 customer reviews

a year ago
A great little display that attaches to my Phat Stack, The software repository is well documented and easy to understand for the lesser programmer.
by Dan about Scroll pHAT HD via REVIEWS.io
2 years ago
Over 50 years ago I was using gas discharge dot matrix displays by Burroughs that had the same beautiful orange glow; these are much coarser resolution but perfect for small displays.
by John about Scroll pHAT HD via REVIEWS.io
2 years ago
Love these little displays - great for pairing with a Pi Zero for little notification things.
by Scott about Scroll pHAT HD via REVIEWS.io
2 years ago
Love these little displays - great for pairing with a Pi Zero for little notification things.
by Scott about Scroll pHAT HD via REVIEWS.io
2 years ago
I love these I leve my wife a message on them. Setup is easy and support for them very good
by Alan about Scroll pHAT HD via REVIEWS.io
2 years ago
Very bright & easy to use. A beautiful display with lots of uses & decent examples. (I wish they worked with Picos and had more than one I2C address.)
by Austin about Scroll pHAT HD via REVIEWS.io
2 years ago
Very bright & easy to use. A beautiful display with lots of uses & decent examples. (I wish they worked with Picos and had more than one I2C address.)
by Austin about Scroll pHAT HD via REVIEWS.io
2 years ago
Very bright & easy to use. A beautiful display with lots of uses & decent examples. (I wish they worked with Picos and had more than one I2C address.)
by Austin about Scroll pHAT HD via REVIEWS.io
2 years ago
Brilliantly simple and lots of fun. Exactly what I've come to expect from Pimoroni
by Colin about Scroll pHAT HD via REVIEWS.io
2 years ago
I have found this raspberry pi hat to be very useful and looks excellent when lit but unfortunately there is one led which does not light up. It still looks good though. Thanks
by Allen about Scroll pHAT HD via REVIEWS.io
2 years ago
As doge would say- “much wow” (I cringed writing that) So nice to have all those little LED’s clustered together and the Python libraries are awesome too!
by Dan about Scroll pHAT HD via REVIEWS.io

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