Skywriter HAT

Skywriter HAT: swipe and motion detector

You can control your Raspberry Pi with a flick of your wrist, as the Skywriter HAT senses the position of fingers above it.

This product uses electrical near-field 3D sensing in order to produce positional data (x, y, z positions) and recognize several of the most common gestures like tap, double tap or flick left.

Skywriter HAT features are:

• Electrical near-field 3D/gesture sensing
• 4-layer PCB for best sensing performance
• Range of up to 5cm
• Full 3D position data and gesture information (flicks, taps)
• Uses Microchip MGC3130 sensor
• Compatible with Raspberry Pi 4B, 3B+, 3, 2, B+, A+, Zero and Zero W
• Skywriter HAT pinout
• Python library
• Comes fully assembled.

Software
On the following link, you find Skywriter HAT Python library. There, you also find some examples to help you get started.

This software DOES NOT support Raspbian Wheezy.

Notes
As the sensing distance reaches up to 5 cm, it is possible to completely hide the Skywriter HAT. Simply mount it behind a thin layer of non conductive material, such as acrylic or fabric.

Pimoroni name: Skywriter HAT [PIM058]