{"id":13061,"date":"2015-08-03T09:37:56","date_gmt":"2015-08-03T08:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13061"},"modified":"2015-08-03T09:37:56","modified_gmt":"2015-08-03T08:37:56","slug":"create-animations-on-the-unicorn-hat-with-the-raspberry-pi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13061","title":{"rendered":"Create animations on the Unicorn HAT with the Raspberry Pi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-PwRjb25Mru4\/Vb6Xj7ZHmqI\/AAAAAAAAEpY\/PcrHUW8VyfY\/s320\/blob2.png?resize=287%2C320\" alt=\"\" width=\"287\" height=\"320\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Richard Hayler previously wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/richardhayler.blogspot.com\/2015\/07\/raspberry-pi-astropi-led-matrix.html\" target=\"_blank\">a small app to create animations for the Astro Pi Sense HAT<\/a>. Following a question from his son, he has now re-factored the app so that you can create animations for the 8&#215;8 Neopixel\u00a0matrix on the <a href=\"http:\/\/thepihut.com\/products\/unicorn-hat\" target=\"_blank\">Unicorn HAT<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/richardhayler.blogspot.co.uk\/2015\/08\/raspberry-pi-unicornhat-animations.html\" target=\"_blank\">Take a look here and download the code<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Animation on UnicornHat created with 8x8grid-unicornhat.py\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-LpLBoRSpPs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Hayler previously wrote a small app to create animations for the Astro Pi Sense HAT. Following a question from his son, he has now re-factored the app so that you can create animations for the 8&#215;8 Neopixel\u00a0matrix on the&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13061\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,22,20,67,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-geeky-techiness","category-gpio-boards","category-graphics","category-programming"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Create animations on the Unicorn HAT with the Raspberry Pi - Raspberry Pi Pod<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13061\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Create animations on the Unicorn HAT with the Raspberry Pi - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Richard Hayler previously wrote a small app to create animations for the Astro Pi Sense HAT. 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