A robot friend to sit on your desk and scroll the news, weather, or your Twitter feed - Scroll Bot!
The Scroll Bot Kit* combines the Pi Zero W with the new swish Scroll pHAT HD board, and
masquerades as a friendly orange robot, perfect for sitting on your desk or on a shelf. It s ideal
for scrolling messages or for simple animations and, of course, it takes advantage of the built-in
wireless LAN on the Pi Zero W. It ll take around 30 minutes to assemble everything** (check
out the assembly guide for details).
Scroll Bot uses the new Scroll pHAT HD board, a dense matrix of 17x7 (119 total) bright white
LEDs. Each pixel s brightness can be controlled individually, meaning that it s possible to create
stunning animations or even anti-aliased text. The LED matrix sits behind Scroll Bot s mouth,
and the frosted orange acrylic diffuses the LEDs beautifully.
Use the built-in wireless LAN to make your Scroll Bot internet-connected and have him/her/it
inform you of the latest news, weather, track hashtags or mentions on Twitter, or much, much
more.
Software:
Pimoroni s handy one-line installer will install the Scroll pHAT HD Python library for you. They ve
included a bunch of examples too, to show off what you can do with Scroll pHAT HD.
Note that the default orientation for Scroll pHAT HD is upside-down if you re using it in a Scroll
Bot. To flip it, simply add scrollphathd.rotate(180) towards the top of your code, just
below the import lines.
Assembling Scroll Bot
Includes:
- Pi Zero W
- Scroll pHAT HD with 17x7 individually dimmable white LEDs
- Male and female 2x20 pin headers
- Orange robot stand and diffuser
- 50cm USB A to microB cable
- USB A (female) to micro B (male) adaptor
- Mini to fullsize HDMI adaptor
- Sticker sheet (personalise your Scroll Bot!)
- Comes in a reusable kit box
Just add your own micro-SD card
Note that this is a soldering project, although you could use one of no-solder hammer
headers!
Features:
- 17x7 matrix of bright white pixels (119 total)
- Individual PWM brightness control of each pixel
- Uses the IS31FL3731 LED matrix driver chip
- 3layer orange robot stand and diffuser
- Pi Zero W with single core CPU and builtin wireless LAN and Bluetooth
- Adaptor kit
- 50cm USB A to microB cable (power your Pi from an existing charger or computer)
- Python library https://github.com/pimoroni/scrollphathd
- Female and male headers require soldering