PiPixel - Raspberry Pi LED Strip HAT

Name: PiPixel - Raspberry Pi LED Strip HAT
SKU: 10276
Price: 8.50 USD
Availability: Discontinued
Rating: 4.56 (4 reviews)

(4 Reviews)

PiPixel makes hooking up your LEDs and providing power super easy.

Designed by Maniacal Labs in United States of America

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PiPixel makes hooking up your LEDs and providing power super easy.

Maniacal Labs PiPixel The PiPixel provides simplified hookup of digital LED strips to the Raspberry Pi family of single board computers. It uses the standard Pi "HAT" form-factor to provide two easy …

Maniacal Labs PiPixel

The PiPixel provides simplified hookup of digital LED strips to the Raspberry Pi family of single board computers. It uses the standard Pi "HAT" form-factor to provide two easy power input options, data output over the SPI port as well as GPIO 18 and 13 (used for WS2812), along with built-in voltage level shifting to keep your LED strips happy being connected to the 3.3V Pi. No longer will you have a rats-nest of wires and power between your Pi and your LEDs. Slap on the PiPixel, connect power, connect LEDs, and go!

What's In The Bag

Your PiPixel is a user assembled kit which only requires basic soldering skills and comes with the following components:

PiPixel PCB
Female 2x20 Header for connection to Pi
2.1 / 5.5 mm barrel jack for power input option #1
5mm pitch dual screw terminal for power input option #2
74AHCT125 Level Shifter
4 pin screw terminal for data/power output
2x3 pin header and jumper for data line selection

Where To Get Optional Headers

We ship the PiPixel with a standard 2x20 Female header as that's what most users are likely to use. But it supports a few other options which we don't currently provide. See the list below for links of where to buy those, should you need them.

Assembly

Check out the full Assembly doc

Usage

For all the details on using your PiPixel, check out the Usage doc

Review Breakdown

Average Ratings

Product: (4.75)

Documentation: (4.50)

Shipping: (4.50)

Communication: (4.50)

Zachary | Aug. 26, 2020

Awesome

Great board; worked like a charm for me! Using a couple of these to power RGB strips on some 3D printers. Controlling the strips via OctoPrint. Very happy with this product and will be ordering more!

William | Jan. 20, 2020

Simple and gets the job done

Worked well for my intended purpose (controlling a 5V LED strip from the pi). One improvement would be to include a jumper from input power to a 5V pin on the pi.

Samuel | July 6, 2018

Good

It works just like you'd expect. I typically build the same thing for my projects, so this saves me time.
I would appreciate the option to power the RPi using the 5V input, though. I just added another wire to supply the 5V port on the RPi.

Adam | March 22, 2018

Works great!

The video did a great job explaining how to put everything together. It was my second time soldering anything and I was able to get it up and running very quickly. Being the same form factor as the pi 0 makes it very easy to install into your projects.