toucan8

Files for running a Little Bird Electronics Toucan 8 LED HAT for Raspberry Pi.

Notes on the Toucan

• Data Line is on Pin 16 (GPIO23)
• Clock Line is on Pin 18 (GPIO24)
• SPI must be enabled on your Pi (sudo raspi-config nonint do_spi 0)
• Works with a library that drives APA102:
  • pypi - https://pypi.org/project/apa102/
  • blinkt - https://github.com/pimoroni/blinkt
  • Arduino - https://www.arduinolibraries.info/libraries/apa102
• Little Bird forums - https://discourse.littlebird.com.au/search?q=toucan%208

Notes on this repository

• Requires Python 3
• Scripts tested on a Raspberry Pi 2 Model B, running Raspbian 10 (Buster) with Python 3.7
• I'm a python noob so be kind ;) There's probably a better way to do everything.

/apa102

Python files using APA102 - https://pypi.org/project/apa102/

Quick start (on your pi):

cd ~
git clone git@github.com:cheshrkat/toucan8.git
cd toucan8/apa102
pip3 install -r requirements.txt 
python3 toucan-helloworld.py

• toucan-helloworld.py flashes a simple rainbow on and off, which is good to confirm things are working.
• To preview all the scripts, run toucan.py
• To just switch everything off, run toucan-off.py
• Review toucan_helpers.py to see the various helper functions. Note you need to pass your lights object to most of them.