The Astro Pi HAT is an addon board for the Raspberry Pi which allows you to sense a range of inputs and do creative things with them, including displaying information using the LED matrix. This activity will help you start using the sensors and LEDs in your projects.

Before following this resource it is a good idea to review the Astro Pi guide, which will help you get your Astro Pi set up and configured.

In order to follow this resource you will need an Astro Pi HAT, which can be obtained by entering the Astro Pi Competition.

In order to communicate with the Astro Pi board you will need to install the Python software libraries, which can be found here.

• The worksheet

Unless otherwise specified, everything in this repository is covered by the following licence:

Getting Started With Astro Pi by the Raspberry Pi Foundation is licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence.

Based on a work at https://github.com/raspberrypilearning/getting-started-with-astro-pi