Display-O-Tron HAT

Display-O-Tron HAT: LCD display, LEDs and buttons

Are you looking for a liquid crystal display that has RGB LED backlighting, a strip of white LEDs, and capacitive touch buttons for your project with the Raspberry Pi? Well, then this is your product!

Display-O-Tron HAT includes an LCD display (capable of showing 16 characters per line over 3 lines), an RGB LED backlight divided into 6 zones, an LED bar, and six capacitive touch buttons — all in a slim form factor.

Thanks to this product, you will be able to control your home automation projects or listen to internet radio.

Display-O-Tron HAT features are:

• 16×3 character LCD display (full ASCII character set and eight custom glyphs)
• Fully controllable six zone RGB backlight
• A strip of 6 bright white LEDs (individually dimmable)
• 6 capacitive touch buttons
• SN3218 LED matrix driver chip (drives the RGB backlight)
• Microchip CAP1166 capacitive touch driver chip
• Display-O-Tron HAT pinout
• Compatible with Raspberry Pi 4, 3, 2, B+, A+, Zero and Zero W boards
• Python library
• Comes fully assembled (breakout pins require soldering)

Software
The Display-O-Tron Python library will help you to easily control this HAT, with many basic level examples, such as how to use the backlight, touch buttons, bar graph LEDs or even more expert level like how to create menus, an internet radio, games and more.

Note:
The Pibow Coupé case is the ideal case to keep the Display-O-Tron HAT stored as it allows you to make use of the capacitive touch buttons.

Pimoroni Name: Display-O-Tron HAT [PIM113]