{"id":14409,"date":"2016-03-24T20:01:38","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T19:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=14409"},"modified":"2016-03-24T20:01:38","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T19:01:38","slug":"unicornhat-pulses-a-beat-to-sonicpi-on-the-raspberry-pi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=14409","title":{"rendered":"UnicornHAT pulses a beat to SonicPi on the Raspberry Pi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/sonicpi_unicorn.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14410\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14410\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/sonicpi_unicorn.jpg?resize=560%2C284&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"sonicpi_unicorn\" width=\"560\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/sonicpi_unicorn.jpg?w=1844&amp;ssl=1 1844w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/sonicpi_unicorn.jpg?resize=300%2C152&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/sonicpi_unicorn.jpg?resize=768%2C390&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/sonicpi_unicorn.jpg?resize=1024%2C520&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/sonicpi_unicorn.jpg?resize=560%2C284&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/sonicpi_unicorn.jpg?resize=260%2C132&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/sonicpi_unicorn.jpg?resize=160%2C81&amp;ssl=1 160w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/sonicpi_unicorn.jpg?w=1120&amp;ssl=1 1120w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/sonicpi_unicorn.jpg?w=1680&amp;ssl=1 1680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was watching Pimoroni&#8217;s Bilge Tank today and\u00a0Phil Howard mentioned that there was now a way in Ruby to run Neopixels (WS2812, I believe, I could be wrong) and therefore it wouldn&#8217;t be a stretch to get it to be able to control the UnicornHAT. I reasoned that, seeing as SonicPi was a Ruby-derived language, that SonicPi should therefore be able to control the UnicornHAT. Within the hour, I was tweeted by Wayne Keenan who had managed to do it using a Python server, sockets and a lot of know-how. 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