Let's make a physical SpaceHey user counter! 😊

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✨ The Parts ✨

- RaspberryPi Zero W (any other RaspberryPi should work too)
- a MAX7219 7-segment display with 8 digits (I used this one: http://shiny.link/7seg)
- a few wires &amp; soldering iron
- a 5V Micro-USB Power supply

First, I soldered the included wire-connector-thingy onto the display board - then I followed this (german) Article to wire it all up: http://shiny.link/7segtut (details in next tweet) 

Here's how the 7 segment display is connected to the Raspberry Pi: 

It's time for the software!

I used the Luma LED Matrix Python Library (http://shiny.link/7seglib) to control the 7 segment display.
I modified the example script (http://shiny.link/7segscript) to call the SpaceHey server to get the current amount of users and display it every 20 secs

Now I just configured the script to run automatically every time the Raspberry Pi boots and voilà - it works! 🥳

Now, let's wait until SpaceHey reaches 50 000 users! ☺️ 

Fun project - LED SpaceHey user counter