Pironman 5 + Hyperpixel 4

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Hey Hi Guys!

I have a Raspberry Pi 5 installed the lovely Pironman 5 case, and it’s working great (I use it currently to host a Vanilla Minecraft server).

I got a Hyperpixel 4 display for Christmas, and it attached to the side of the Pironman case nicely via the GPIO breakout connector at the top of the perspex window, but I couldn’t get it to work. However I read on the Pimoroni site the following text:

  • HyperPixel uses basically all of the GPIO pins to communicate with the Pi (including the standard I2C pins) so it’s not generally possible to use it with other HATs and devices that connect via the GPIO…

I assume that the Pironman 5 case peripherals (like the M2+ hat, the CPU and Case Fans and the mini-display) use the GPIO, so this display is a non-starter with this case? Am I right?

Cheers.

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You’re right, the pironman5 uses the raspberry pi i2c pin to drive the oled screen and the spi pin to drive the RGB lights, so the pironman5 program won’t work at the same time as HyperPixel.