Pimoroni Automation HAT mini

Hi everyone ! Hope to find you all well !

Since everyone will be using the Automation HAT mini, Pimoroni, in their blog, have a wonderful post about the Hat, written by Tanya Fish.

Just head to https://blog.pimoroni.com/automation-hat-tanya-teardown/ and read. Everything you need to know about the HAT workings and what does every output, input and relay do and how to work with them.

The post isn't really about the mini, but still applies.

They also have a getting started tutorial, but the blog post is better and more detailed (IMHO).

Happy coding .

JUST A SIDE NOTE: After reading the post, I got confused if the relay and the output wouldn't be the same thing. In a very short explanation: they are, in a sense, but the relay really cuts all the power (no electricity flowing) and the outputs still leave a bit of electricity flowing even if "turned off".

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skruglewicz over 1 year ago

Hi Bruno and fellow challengers
Nice to see a few challengers experimenting with the Kit. I have been experimenting with the 2 hats.
Nice to know about what everyone is finding with the kit.

In my blog Blog# 5 EAS - Research and Unboxing of the challenge kit, I am trying to translate the existing information in the few blogs, (including the excellent one Bruno has supplied ) ,that I have found on the Internet. Fell free to comment on it's contents, if you get some time.

All the blogs that I reference in my blog , are pertaining to other models of the Hats. Which IMHO, was a bit confusing at first, but I was able to make sense with a little bit of experimenting.

I did find the blog on the Enviro helpful Getting Started with Enviro+ , and would have been nice to include the Enviro+ in the challenge, but the Enviro will do, .I did find some problems in the Automation Hat blog though. the curl install script does not install the examples? for example.

Code on
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raspberrypitechguy over 1 year ago in reply to skruglewicz

Hi stephen!

I did use the Curl but it did, just it finds some strange error.

Oh! You need to enable SPI!

Thanks Bruno!

Good luck everyone and happy making!
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skruglewicz over 1 year ago in reply to raspberrypitechguy

Hiraspberrypitechguy
I got a directory not found and then when I created the Directory and Re installed it didn’t install the examples either. That’s what I experienced. The test scripts I described in my blog worked on the automation hat so I don’t think it’s the SPI but I will investigate
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raspberrypitechguy over 1 year ago in reply to skruglewicz

Alright thank you!
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raspberrypitechguy over 1 year ago in reply to skruglewicz

Alright thank you!
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