Apr 8, 2021
Success!
After months of failure, obsessive research, intense being-busy-with-other-things, and general anxiety about taking this step, I have now soldered for the first time. And, actually, so did the kids. It looks like a gloopy mess but now this Unicorn pHAT works when connected to a Raspberry Pi Zero W. I can remotely change the colors of the LEDs. Presumably I could also write a Python program to dynamically change them.
But that's for a different time. Now, this LED array is bound to be connected to a Microsoft Azure logic app to automatically indicate whether my wife is in a meeting or not. I'm not sure how that's going to go, but for the first time I have forward momentum!