# Plasma 2040 restock

**URL:** <https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/plasma-2040-restock/17960>\
**Category:** Discussion\
**Created:** [September 27, 2021, 10:10pm UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/plasma-2040-restock/17960 "2021-09-27T22:10:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Joshy-J](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forums.pimoroni.com/joshy-j/32/8184_2.png) [@Joshy-J](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/Joshy-J)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2021, 10:10pm UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/plasma-2040-restock/17960/1 "2021-09-27T22:10:54Z")

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Hi!

I’d love a Plasma 2040. Will they be restocked any time soon?

Alternatively can anyone recommend a tutorial for an absolute beginner on connecting RGB LEDs to a raspberry pi. Thank!

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**Author:** ![alphanumeric](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forums.pimoroni.com/alphanumeric/32/2729_2.png) [@alphanumeric](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/alphanumeric)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2021, 8:23am UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/plasma-2040-restock/17960/2 "2021-09-28T08:23:26Z")

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The Picade Plasma software will run on a Pi, without the need for the Picade X hat.  
I ran it on my Blinkt.  
[pimoroni/plasma: Plasma LED driver, FX Sequencer and plugins (github.com)](https://github.com/pimoroni/plasma)  
Adafruit have a bunch of tutorials on LED strips.  
[Adafruit Learning System](https://learn.adafruit.com/category/led-strips)

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**Author:** ![hel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forums.pimoroni.com/hel/32/6075_2.png) [@hel](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/hel)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2021, 8:31am UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/plasma-2040-restock/17960/3 "2021-09-28T08:31:52Z")

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We’re waiting for PCBs to arrive so we can make more Plasma 2040s, they should hopefully be here in the next couple of weeks :)

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**Author:** ![Joshy-J](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forums.pimoroni.com/joshy-j/32/8184_2.png) [@Joshy-J](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/Joshy-J)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2021, 10:54am UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/plasma-2040-restock/17960/4 "2021-09-28T10:54:46Z")

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Thanks so much for your responses :)

Look forward to working on this

One thing: I wish the plasma 2040 had 10 buttons. That is all. Just 10 buttons to trigger 10 different functions. Perhaps I will look into running the software off my PI as I guess that would let me trigger different sequences.

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**Author:** ![hel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forums.pimoroni.com/hel/32/6075_2.png) [@hel](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/hel)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2021, 12:09pm UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/plasma-2040-restock/17960/5 "2021-09-28T12:09:57Z")

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You could use a [IO Expander breakout](https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/io-expander) with Plasma 2040 to hook up lots of buttons, or a [RGB encoder](https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/rgb-encoder-breakout) to switch between different patterns?