GlowBit Matrix 4x4 | Quickstart Guide

The full guide: https://core-electronics.com.au/tutorials/glowbit/glowbit-matrix-4x4-python-and-micropython-guide.html

This guide for the GlowBit 4x4 Matrix will have you up and running on either a Raspberry Pi or Raspberry Pi Pico (the experience is the same), and introduce you to some useful python code examples to display both static shapes and colours and animations.

Coding a Raspberry Pi Pico with Thonny: https://core-electronics.com.au/tutorials/how-to-setup-a-raspberry-pi-pico-and-code-with-thonny.html

0:00 Intro
0:14 What You Will Need
0:31 Raspberry Pi Pico Connection
1:13 Raspberry Pi Connection
1:45 Raspberry Pi Library Installation
2:56 Raspberry Pi Pico Library Installation
3:43 Test Code Demonstration
3:56 Lighting Individual Pixels Example
5:04 Colour Wheel Example
5:27 Colour Wheel Remixes
5:48 Fill All Pixels With Colour Cycle Example
6:17 Drawing Shapes Example
6:57 Graph Animation Example
8:19 Outro

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