{"id":17557,"date":"2017-08-29T19:30:53","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T18:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=17557"},"modified":"2017-08-29T17:23:54","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T16:23:54","slug":"make-a-digital-clock-with-the-sensehat-on-the-raspberry-pi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=17557","title":{"rendered":"Make a digital clock with the SenseHAT on the Raspberry Pi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/digital-clock.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17558\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/digital-clock.png?resize=300%2C328&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/digital-clock.png?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/digital-clock.png?resize=274%2C300&amp;ssl=1 274w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/digital-clock.png?resize=260%2C284&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/digital-clock.png?resize=160%2C175&amp;ssl=1 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thepi.io\/how-to-create-a-raspberry-pi-digital-clock-using-the-sense-hat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here&#8217;s a quick tutorial<\/a> to build a digital clock with your SenseHAT and your Raspberry Pi. The tutorial takes you through installing the necessary software and includes the code for the project. To make it start automatically on power-up, take a look at the instructions in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13999\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">my Paper Clip tutorial<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a quick tutorial to build a digital clock with your SenseHAT and your Raspberry Pi. The tutorial takes you through installing the necessary software and includes the code for the project. To make it start automatically on power-up, take&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=17557\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20,39,51],"tags":[183],"class_list":["post-17557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gpio-boards","category-programming","category-tutorials","tag-sensehat"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Make a digital clock with the SenseHAT on 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=17557\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Make a digital clock with the SenseHAT on the Raspberry Pi - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Here&#8217;s a quick tutorial to build a digital clock with your SenseHAT and your Raspberry Pi. 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