Pi Lite white - Bright white LED display for Raspberry Pi

A project in Nottingham, United Kingdom by Ciseco
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Average Pledge Per Backer: £29

Funded: £13,864 of £4,000
Dates: Jun 13th -> Jul 13th (30 days)
Project By: Ciseco
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Latest News

LED's have arrived

July 12th - via: kickstarter.com
Hi everyone, The 100,000 LED's arrived this week, next week we'll start to build them on our machine. We hope that on the day KS send over the funds we can start shipping. I know it's a little unusual for KS projects to be on time and even rarer... (Read More)

Virtual Pi Lite

July 4th - via: kickstarter.com
Pi-Lite Emulator To give you a flavour of what the real Pi-Lite is like, we created an emulator that you can run on your Pi. The emulator behaves just like the firmware that comes with the Pi-Lite when it ships. It has a text input box in which you... (Read More)

More code examples - Xively IoT, Tickers for Weather, world time zones and Stock prices - click for a short video of each

July 2nd - via: kickstarter.com
Hi guys, I've a couple of things in this update, some new great code and a favour to ask. We've been a busy bees over the last week on some great new software examples. Xively - Display IoT feeds from this popular platform Weather - Is it gonna rain,... (Read More)

Added code example - MQTT Internet of Things display

June 24th - via: kickstarter.com
Matt has popped up a quick example of MQTT and the Pi Lite using python on the Pi http://openmicros.org/index.php/articles/94-ciseco-product-documentation/raspberry-pi/301-pi-lite-mqtt-example  (Read More)

The Dark LITE rises!

June 19th - via: kickstarter.com
After a trip to see our local laser cut and LED kings, Phenoptix (they sell our stuff too), we came back with some "serious goods". Ben cut sheet after sheet of acrylic like his life depended on it. Our lungs filled with hideous fumes....only... (Read More)

Beer and thinking..a good combination?

June 18th - via: kickstarter.com
Last nights thoughts a quick run down. We didn't have enough early birds, they went too fast in four days. We began thinking even more geeky. So here's last night's crazy thoughts of 2 special editions that we could do and never make again. The Dark... (Read More)

Stretch goal update

June 17th - via: kickstarter.com
Just been speaking to Ben at Phenoptix, he's going to modify the Adafriut design to accommodate the extra height. He's going to try diffused acrylic also which sounds zuperzexy! Might have pictures tommorow as long as Mrs Ben still stays pregnant :)... (Read More)

Target reached!

June 17th - via: kickstarter.com
Can't believe we got there in just over 4 days :) Special mention to SUCKHEUI CHUNG who took us over the £4K finish line. Be back with some stretch goals........ Huge thanks from us all .... Miles, Matt, John, Rob1, Rob2, Jeanette, Declan & Adam... (Read More)

New reward level

June 16th - via: kickstarter.com
Hi everyone, For those who would like a White and a Red Pi-Lite, we have created a new reward level. We worked out the extra weight increased postage a little across the board, the reward level accounts for this (£1 more), we hope that's ok? Best... (Read More)

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