Assembling Mood Light This tutorial will guide you through how to assemble your Mood Light kit. Use Mood Light as a night light on your bedside table, or just sit it on your desk or bookcase. It uses our Unicorn pHAT RGB LED board that has 32 programmable pixels that you can code in any one of a zillion ways - have it fade through all the colours of the rainbow, use it to reflect your mood on Twitter, have it fade through colours that match sunset and sunrise, or flash when someone mentions you on Twitter. The assembly will be split into two parts: soldering the headers to your Pi Zero W and Unicorn pHAT, and assembling and screwing together the acrylic pieces. It should take around 30 minutes to assemble everything. Soldering the headers Both the Pi Zero W and the Unicorn pHAT boards will need a 2x20 pin header attached. Your Mood Light kit comes with a male 2x20 pin header for the Zero W and a female 2x20 pin header for the Unicorn pHAT. We have a guide here that you can follow to learn how to solder headers to pHATs. Soldering the male header to the Zero W is essentially just the same process, except the header should be soldered on top. The photos below show how each header should look when soldered. If you don't own a soldering iron, or you're just not a pro-solderer yet, then you could use one of our nifty hammer headers that don't require any soldering at all. Our hammer header kit comes with a male header, female header, and a jig to safely and securely attach them to your Pi Zero/Zero W and pHAT.
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Assembling Mood Light This tutorial will guide you through how to assemble your Mood Light kit. Use Mood Light as a night light
on your bedside table, or just sit it on your desk or bookcase.
It uses our Unicorn pHAT RGB LED board that has 32 programmable pixels that you can code in any one
of a zillion ways - have it fade through all the colours of the rainbow, use it to reflect your mood on
Twitter, have it fade through colours that match sunset and sunrise, or flash when someone mentions you
on Twitter.
The assembly will be split into two parts: soldering the headers to your Pi Zero W and Unicorn pHAT, and
assembling and screwing together the acrylic pieces.
It should take around 30 minutes to assemble everything.
Soldering the headers Both the Pi Zero W and the Unicorn pHAT boards will need a 2x20 pin header attached. Your Mood Light
kit comes with a male 2x20 pin header for the Zero W and a female 2x20 pin header for the Unicorn
pHAT.
We have a guide here that you can follow to learn how to solder headers to pHATs. Soldering the male
header to the Zero W is essentially just the same process, except the header should be soldered on top. The
photos below show how each header should look when soldered.
If you don't own a soldering iron, or you're just not a pro-solderer yet, then you could use one of our nifty
hammer headers that don't require any soldering at all. Our hammer header kit comes with a male header,
female header, and a jig to safely and securely attach them to your Pi Zero/Zero W and pHAT.