Adafruit RGB Matrix Bonnet for Raspberry Pi

Control LED Matrix Displays with your Raspberry Pi and the Arduino RGB Matrix Bonnet. Simply plug the Bonnet into your Raspberry Pi and create your LED wall in just a few steps.

The Bonnet works with any Raspberry Pi with 40-pin GPIO header: Zero, Zero W, Zero WH, Model A+, B+, Pi 2, and Pi 3
Older models with 26-pin connector are not supported.

Unlike the RGB Matrix HAT the RGB Matrix Bonnet offers a scan rate of 1/32 and is fully assembled with soldered socket strip. However, it does not have a real-time clock (RTC).

Implementing your RGB matrix project is simple:

• Connect the board to the power and data line (IDC) and run the sample Python code.
• The board features reverse polarity, overvoltage and undervoltage protection.
• Integrated level converters ensure safe 5.0V control signals.
• No soldering skills are required, the bonnet is fully assembled and only needs to be plugged in.

The board can be operated with all LED matrices with HUB75 connector: 16x32, 32x32

Need more LEDs? No problem, you can simply line up the LED panels. Adafruit has easily tested it up to 32x128 resolution. Please note that the larger your LED wall, the more computing power you need.

The Bonnet is not suitable for NeoPixel, DotStar or other addressable LEDs!

You need a suitable 5V power supply to operate the LED dies. The power consumption is calculated as follows: 0.12A * width of all connected panels. For a panel with a width of 32 LEDs, this results in a current consumption of 32 * 0.12 A = 3.85 A. In this case, use a 5V 4A power supply, for example. The actual power consumption depends on the number of active LEDs.

No Raspberry Pi, LED matrix, or power supply is included.

See Adafruit for more details and tutorials: https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-rgb-matrix-bonnet-for-raspberry-pi/