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Id like to get a simple integer from my pi over to my Arduino (live, so while both are running and with Minimum latency), but I cant use any Pins because im already using all of them because I use a sense hat. If I could get this simple int from like 1-10 over to my pi, I could tell my adruino what to do when int=1 so thats not a Problem, I just dont know how to get data over there.

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  • I doubt the sense hat needs all the GPIO. Have you identified which are spare? Perhaps the UART is available? The question would then be how do I physically connect to those GPIO.
    – joan
    May 24, 2019 at 11:14
  • please be clear in what you are asking ... an int usually consists of 2 bytes and could be 4 bytes .... a value of 1 to 10 could be represented with a single byte
    – jsotola
    May 24, 2019 at 17:52

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You can connect the Arduino to the Raspberry Pi with an USB cable. That gives you a serial connection. On the Raspberry side, you can use a library like pyserial. On the Arduino side, you can read bytes with

char x = Serial.read();

There's a tutorial at https://www.instructables.com/id/Interface-Python-and-Arduino-with-pySerial/

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