{"id":10935,"date":"2014-09-05T08:22:17","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T08:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10935"},"modified":"2014-09-05T08:22:17","modified_gmt":"2014-09-05T08:22:17","slug":"light-a-single-neopixel-from-the-raspberry-pis-uart-pin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10935","title":{"rendered":"Light a Single Neopixel from the Raspberry Pi&#8217;s UART pin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/wpdotjoshdotcom.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/09\/20140902_1449391.jpg?w=540&#038;h=592&#038;fit=540%2C592&#038;resize=540%2C593\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"593\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>It must be Neopixel day or something.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In this tutorial, Josh teaches us how to light up a single Neopixel using the Raspberry Pi&#8217;s UART TX pin and a piece of software called &#8220;neouart&#8221;. <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.josh.com\/2014\/09\/02\/give-your-raspberrypi-a-neopixel\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read the tutorial here if you&#8217;d like\u00a0to do this<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It must be Neopixel day or something. 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