GlowBit Matrix 8x8 | Quickstart Guide

The full guide: https://core-electronics.com.au/tutorials/glowbit/glowbit-matrix-8x8-python-and-micropython-guide.html

This guide for the GlowBit 8x8 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
0:17 What You Will Need
1:01 Raspberry Pi Pico Connection
1:58 Raspberry Pi Connection
2:20 Raspberry Pi Library Installation
3:31 Raspberry Pi Pico Library Installation
4:16 Test Code Demonstration
4:43 Lighting Individual Pixels Example
6:23 Colour Wheel Example
7:26 Scrolling Text Example
9:35 Fill All Pixels With Colour Cycle Example
10:25 Drawing Shapes Example
11:22 Drawing Shapes Remix
12:25 Graph Animation Example
13:39 Plot Animation Example
15:14 Outro

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