Pimoroni Display-O-Tron HAT

Pimoroni Display-O-Tron HAT description

Pimeroni Display-O-Tron is one of the most popular and at the same time easiest to use HATs in Pimoroni offering. It is featured with 16x3 character LCD supporting a complete ASCII character set. The shield is powered directly through the Pi board. The board comes with multiple capactive touch pads on top of that. All functions of the shield are accessible in a really straight forward way and supported by a range of Python libraries available on github and officially issued by Pimeroni. The hat is compatible with all Raspbery boards given its universal 40 GPIO pinout

Detailed view

Pimoroni Display-O-Tron HAT features

• Fully assembled (apart from optional GPIO header)
• Super slim 16x3 character LCD display
• Six capacitive touch input buttons
• Eight LED bar graph
• Six-zone RGB backlight with diffuser
• GPIO breakout for 5V, 3V3, GND, SDA/SCL, TX/RX, PWM, MOSI/MISO/SCLK/CE1, and GPIO #5, #6, #13, #19, #26
• Full ASCII set plus eight custom characters

Introductory product video

Interesting links

• Python Library
• Controlling Display-O-Tron with Node.js