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Dave Honess, over at the Foundation, has just announced<\/a> the availability of a SenseHAT emulator. It allows you to use a virtual SenseHAT and program it with the sense_hat Python library. Pretty neat! You can even manually alter the virtual sensor readings to see it affecting your program. You can access the emulator and see a variety of sample programs over at trinket.io<\/a>\u00a0and read a bit more about the development of it over at Raspberry Pi HQ<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dave Honess, over at the Foundation, has just announced the availability of a SenseHAT emulator. It allows you to use a virtual SenseHAT and program it with the sense_hat Python library. Pretty neat! You can even manually alter the virtual…<\/p>\n

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