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How to easily create multi-HAT Pi projects

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Add-on boards for the Raspberry Pi, known as HATs, expand the usefulness of the $35 single board computer. The Pi has a single 40-pin GPIO header, but with pHAT Stack from Pmoroni we can add three HATs, or five pHATs to a single Pi. In this project we’re using two older HATs from Pimoroni. The Skywriter HAT is a gesture sensor that reacts to flicks, taps and touch using a sensor which can detect your fingers in the air. We’ll use Skywriter as an input to control

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