Quote from Dave Williams on August 25, 2018, 3:55 pm

To experiment and learn to control the HAMKit VMAC PiHat, you will need to follow the basic instructions.

• Obtain a Raspberry Pi (with 40 pin GPIO), such as Raspberry Pi   Zero, 2 or 3 (or compatible alternative)
• Plug in the HAMKit VMAC PiHat to the Pi
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• Download the latest OS version of Raspbian from the below link.  This could be the full version or lite.
  • https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/
• Copy the image to a micro SD card (ideally 8GB or larger).  This should be a minimum of SD Class 4, but ideally a faster SD Class 10.
  • https://hamkit.co.uk/wiki-raspberry-os-software/
• Install the image to the SD card.  Example details can be found:
  • https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/installation/installing-images/README.md
• Once installed and on your Pi Desktop, you will need to make a few but important changes to the settings that will enable I2C, SPI, UART (plus for later use ideally SSH and VNC).
  • https://www.raspberrypi-spy.co.uk/2014/11/enabling-the-i2c-interface-on-the-raspberry-pi/
• Download one of our sample / demo Python scripts
  • https://hamkit.co.uk/wiki-vmac-pihat-v2-overview/
• Open Thonny, load a Python script / code and run.
  • https://hamkit.co.uk/wiki-raspberry-python/