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# Pimoroni LED Matrix Breakout 11x7

**Type:** Product page · **SKU:** CE06455 · **Brand:** [Pimoroni](https://core-electronics.com.au/brands/pimoroni-australia)
**Page:** https://core-electronics.com.au/pimoroni-led-matrix-breakout-11x7.html ([markdown](https://core-electronics.com.au/pimoroni-led-matrix-breakout-11x7.html.md))

## Retired product

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## Description

This tiny, white LED matrix has 77 pixels packed onto a board that's the same size as a postage stamp! Each LED's brightness can be controlled individually, meaning that you can display all sorts of cool text, animations, and more on it. Why not use it as a controllable light source for your [Raspberry Pi Camera](https://core-electronics.com.au/search/?q=raspberry+pi+camera)?

Like Pimoroni's other breakouts, this one just pops straight onto your Pi's pins once you've soldered on the included right-angle female header, and we included a trace that can be cut to change the I2C address from 0x75 to 0x77, if you want to use two matrices at once!

It's compatible with Pimoroni's fancy [Breakout Garden HAT](https://core-electronics.com.au/breakout-garden-hat.html), where using breakouts is as easy just popping it into one of the six slots and starting to grow your project, create, and code.

### Features

- 11x7 (77 total) bright white LEDs
- Uses the IS31FL3731 driver chip
- 22x14mm active area
- 2mm LED pitch
- I2C interface (address 0x75/0x77 (cut trace))
- 3.3V or 5V compatible
- Reverse polarity protection
- Compatible with all models of Raspberry Pi, and Arduino
- [Python library](https://github.com/pimoroni/matrix11x7-python)
- Dimensions: 23x25x3mm.
 
### Kit includes

- 11x7 LED Matrix Breakout
- 1x5 male header
- 1x5 female right-angle header
 
Pimoroni has designed this breakout board so that you can solder on the piece of right-angle female header and pop it straight onto the bottom left 5 pins on your Raspberry Pi's GPIO header (pins 1, 3, 5, 7, 9).

### Software

Pimoroni has put together a [Python library](https://github.com/pimoroni/matrix11x7-python) to make it really easy to drive the 11x7 LED Matrix Breakout, along with a handful of [examples](https://github.com/pimoroni/matrix11x7-python/tree/master/examples) to show what it can do.

*Pimoroni's software does not support Raspbian Wheezy.*

## Images

- [Product image 1](https://core-electronics.com.au/media/catalog/product/1/1/11x7_matrix_breakout_1_of_4_large.jpg)