Name: Pi-Top Pulse HAT
SKU: 752046

pi-topPULSE Smart Speaker with LED Matrix

pi-topPULSE is an accessory by pi-top to help build STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Maths) based projects with music, lights and sound. The accessory can be used with pi-top or pi-topCEED, and furthermore as an add-on board to the Raspberry Pi 3. The microphone can be used to record music and a DIY cloud-based voice service for students to ask Computer Science related questions.

Simply learn, play or create fun projects in lesson plans. The projects are suitable for beginners or experts aged 8 and over.

LED Array

Snake
Pong
Flappy Birds

Speaker

Sonic pi to code music
General for listening to music
Siri (where questions are typed)

Microphone

Sample music recording
Voice recording

Combined projects

Create your own DIY cloud-based voice service, with Amazon Alexa
Light show with sonic pi
Pixel Game with sound
Tamagotchi

Features

LED Light array

7x7 programmable RGB LED (49) Matrix
Fully configurable and easy to program - use Python to make patterns and pictures
High refresh-rate makes it perfect for animations that synchronise to sounds - either from the speaker, or the in-built microphone
7 more LEDs are concealed around the board for fun - 3 on the bottom and 4 under the speaker grill - to put on a spectacular show of colour and sound