{"id":15416,"date":"2016-09-09T14:45:46","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T13:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=15416"},"modified":"2016-09-09T14:45:46","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T13:45:46","slug":"new-sensehat-emulator-for-the-raspberry-pi-desktop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=15416","title":{"rendered":"New SenseHAT emulator for the Raspberry Pi desktop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.raspberrypi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/sense-emu.png?resize=560%2C353&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"353\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A few weeks ago, the Foundation launched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=15240\" target=\"_blank\">a SenseHAT emulator that worked over your web browser<\/a>. Given that many Pis are used offline, and also that there are still many older Pis out there that aren&#8217;t powerful enough to use the browser version, the emulator didn&#8217;t suit everyone.<\/p>\n<p>Enter Python guru\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/waveform80\" target=\"_blank\">Dave Jones<\/a>\u00a0who has developed a new lightweight, desktop version that will be useful in both of these circumstances. It&#8217;s available now as an installed package and will soon be pre-installed on the Raspbian image. You can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raspberrypi.org\/blog\/desktop-sense-hat-emulator\/\" target=\"_blank\">find out more, including how to install it, on the Raspberry Pi blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, the Foundation launched a SenseHAT emulator that worked over your web browser. 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