Blinky - RPi Header with Labels and LEDs

Name: Blinky - RPi Header with Labels and LEDs
SKU: 28666
Price: 12.00 USD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 5.00 (2 reviews)

(2 Reviews)

Learn to flash LEDs, debug that complicated prototype, or have a dance party

Designed by EK ENG in United Kingdom

Blinky - RPi Header with Labels and LEDs 1

Blinky - RPi Header with Labels and LEDs 2

Blinky - RPi Header with Labels and LEDs 3

Blinky - RPi Header with Labels and LEDs 4

Blinky - RPi Header with Labels and LEDs 5

2022-11-30T16:12:14.459Z-PXL_20221120_224734312.jpg

2022-11-30T16:12:14.459Z-PXL_20221120_224813226.jpg

2022-11-30T16:12:14.459Z-PXL_20221130_150337799.jpg

2022-11-30T16:12:14.459Z-PXL_20221120_224324234.jpg

2022-11-30T16:12:14.459Z-PXL_20221120_224456950.jpg

Buy with confidence.

Our Tindie Guarantee protects your purchase from fraud. Learn More

Learn to flash LEDs, debug that complicated prototype, or have a dance party

What is it? Blinky is a Raspberry Pi GPIO monitor or LED flasher. It's a headband (too small to be a HAT, so a headband, right?) with LEDs on all of the GPIO pins. Each LED has its own independent MO…

What is it?

Blinky is a Raspberry Pi GPIO monitor or LED flasher. It's a headband (too small to be a HAT, so a headband, right?) with LEDs on all of the GPIO pins. Each LED has its own independent MOSFET driver and is supplied from the 5V rail of the Pi. The headband (sorry) also does not have any pull up or pull down resistors, meaning there is no loading or interference with any other uses of the GPIO pins (I2C, SPI, etc.). The 40 pins on the header are also all labeled with their functions for easy reference.

Why did you make it?

Over the course of many projects and protoytpe builds I found it useful to visually see the state of different buttons, switches, communication lines, etc. This has helped to quickly identify the source of a problem, whether it be a bad switch, wire or programming.

Shipped As (DEFAULT ORDER)

1x Blinky Board

1x 40 pin Header (separate, unsoldered)

For more shipping options, product requests, or if you have any feedback, please reach out through the contact store button!

No country selected, please select your country to see shipping options.

Change Destination Country:

Review Breakdown

Average Ratings

Product: (5.00)

Documentation: (5.00)

Shipping: (5.00)

Communication: (5.00)

Dirk | March 14, 2023

Simple but effective product form a friendly seller

Product is effective, excellent quality. Seller is very accomodating en actively looking for (legal!) solutions for the misery related to customs and TAV.

David | Jan. 5, 2023

Excellent Product with Fantastic Customer Support

I've been looking for this exact product for at least 6 months now, and am so glad to have finally found it. There are some other, somewhat similar products out there, but this is the absolute best of them. It has a low profile that is both much smaller than a full HAT and also smaller than its competitors, and unlike some other products, comes with the LEDs already soldered on. Customer service was fantastic, too I'll be ordering another one very soon!