toucan8

Files for running a Little Bird Electronics Toucan 8 LED HAT for Raspberry Pi.

Notes on the Toucan

Data Line is on Pin 16 (GPIO23)
Clock Line is on Pin 18 (GPIO24)
SPI must be enabled on your Pi (sudo raspi-config nonint do_spi 0)
Works with a library that drives APA102:
- pypi - https://pypi.org/project/apa102/
- blinkt - https://github.com/pimoroni/blinkt
- Arduino - https://www.arduinolibraries.info/libraries/apa102
Little Bird forums - https://discourse.littlebird.com.au/search?q=toucan%208

Notes on this repository

Requires Python 3
Scripts tested on a Raspberry Pi 2 Model B, running Raspbian 10 (Buster) with Python 3.7
I'm a python noob so be kind ;) There's probably a better way to do everything.

/apa102

Python files using APA102 - https://pypi.org/project/apa102/

Quick start (on your pi):

cd ~
git clone [email protected]:cheshrkat/toucan8.git
cd toucan8/apa102
pip3 install -r requirements.txt 
python3 toucan-helloworld.py

toucan-helloworld.py flashes a simple rainbow on and off, which is good to confirm things are working.
To preview all the scripts, run toucan.py
To just switch everything off, run toucan-off.py
Review toucan_helpers.py to see the various helper functions. Note you need to pass your lights object to most of them.