The Sense HAT is a scientific platform created for use in schools and in space! Two Raspberry Pis are currently on the International Space Station as part of a scheme with the European Space Agency, where children can write code and potentially have it run on these high-flying Pis. The competition is called Astro Pi, and the code written by the schools can be silly or serious. Is there a north in space? Well using the Sense HAT you can find out, just as one school did.
The Sense HAT has sensors to measure temperature, humidity, pressure, magnetic forces, orientation or acceleration, and it has a lovely 8x8 grid of multicolour LEDs on which we can scroll text and display pixelated images. The joystick provides basic input – handy when…
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APC (Digital) - 1 Issue, June 2020