This super-cute 5x5 RGB LED matrix breakout is a neat way to visualise sensor data or for simple animations or notifications, and it's Raspberry Pi and Arduino-compatible.
These little matrices are ideal for visualising data from other Pimoroni breakouts in a Breakout Garden HAT, like graphing environmental data from our BMP280 or BME680 breakouts. Or why not use two together as headlights or brake lights for your Pi-powered vehicle?
Like Pimoroni's other breakouts, this one just pops straight onto your Pi's pins once you've soldered on the included right-angle female header, and there's a trace that can be cut to change the I2C address from 0x74 to 0x77, if you want to use two matrices at once!
It's compatible with Pimoroni's fancy Breakout Garden HAT, where using breakouts is as easy just popping it into one of the six slots and starting to grow your project, create, and code.
Features
5x5 (25 total) RGB LEDs
Uses the IS31FL3731 driver chip
15x15mm active area
3.5mm LED pitch
I2C interface (address 0x74/0x77 (cut trace))
3.3V or 5V compatible
Reverse polarity protection
Compatible with all models of Raspberry Pi, and Arduino
Python library
Kit includes
5x5 RGB Matrix Breakout
1x5 male header
1x5 female right-angle header
Pimoroni designed this breakout board so that you can solder on the piece of right-angle female header and pop it straight onto the bottom left 5 pins on your Raspberry Pi's GPIO header (pins 1, 3, 5, 7, 9).
A crisp, bright 1.12" OLED that's ideal for adding a small display to your project. This 128x128 pixel, monochrome white/black display is ideal for graphing, readouts, and displaying basic icons.
A tiny, tightly-packed matrix of 77 individually-controllable bright white LEDs. Ideal for scrolling text, animations, bar graphs, or just general illumination.