PiGlow - Lighting Add-on Board for the Raspberry Pi

Note: Although this product is no longer available we do have a growing number of other Raspberry Pi accessories here.

The PiGlow is a small add-on board for the Raspberry Pi that provides 18 individually controllable LEDs.

This board uses the SN3218 8-bit 18-channel PWM chip to drive 18 surface mount LEDs. Communication is done via I2C over the GPIO header with a bus address of 0x54 (Python example code provided). Each LED can be set to a PWM value of between 0 and 255.

You can use it for mood lighting / ambience, showing current system load, notify you of events like mentions in tweets or incoming e-mail, and pretty much anything else you can think of!

Features:

• 18 LEDs (three each of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and white).
• Great to provide feedback if you’re running your Pi headless.
• PWM (dimming) control for each channel.
• Fully assembled (no soldering required).
• Python code to access and control lighting provided.

Contents:

• 1 x PiGlow – Lighting Add-on Board for the Raspberry Pi.

Requires:

• Raspberry Pi.

Resources:

• GitHub Repository (includes datasheet).