wraggster
July 5th, 2012, 23:27
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If you’re one of the lucky few with a Raspberry Pi, adafruit has two things you might be interested in if you’re into GPIO hacking.
First up is the Pi Cobbler kit (http://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-pi-cobbler-kit). It’s a 2×13 ribbon cable with a breakout PCB ready to attach to a solderless breadboard; perfect for playing around with (or cobbling together… get it?) the GPIO pins on your Raspi.
Next up is the Pi Plate kit (https://www.adafruit.com/products/801) that comes complete with enough perfboard space, screw terminals, and female headers to kill a yak. All the GPIO, I2C, and SPI pins are broken out on the Pi Plate, making it very easy to prototype a semi-permanent Raspi circuit.
They might be just prototyping boards now, but we expect these Pi Plates to quickly evolve into a truly useful device with the addition of a few level shifters, port expanders (http://hackaday.com/2011/06/07/working-with-i2c-port-expanders/) and a few ADCs and DAC thrown in for good measure. If you’re still on the fence and thinking about buying a Raspi, I ordered one last week from element14 (http://www.element14.com/community/groups/raspberry-pi?ICID=hp_raspberry) and now have an expected ship date of November 5th. These things must be reallypopular.
http://hackaday.com/2012/07/05/raspberry-pi-prototyping-boards-available-at-adafruit/
If you’re one of the lucky few with a Raspberry Pi, adafruit has two things you might be interested in if you’re into GPIO hacking.
First up is the Pi Cobbler kit (http://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-pi-cobbler-kit). It’s a 2×13 ribbon cable with a breakout PCB ready to attach to a solderless breadboard; perfect for playing around with (or cobbling together… get it?) the GPIO pins on your Raspi.
Next up is the Pi Plate kit (https://www.adafruit.com/products/801) that comes complete with enough perfboard space, screw terminals, and female headers to kill a yak. All the GPIO, I2C, and SPI pins are broken out on the Pi Plate, making it very easy to prototype a semi-permanent Raspi circuit.
They might be just prototyping boards now, but we expect these Pi Plates to quickly evolve into a truly useful device with the addition of a few level shifters, port expanders (http://hackaday.com/2011/06/07/working-with-i2c-port-expanders/) and a few ADCs and DAC thrown in for good measure. If you’re still on the fence and thinking about buying a Raspi, I ordered one last week from element14 (http://www.element14.com/community/groups/raspberry-pi?ICID=hp_raspberry) and now have an expected ship date of November 5th. These things must be reallypopular.
http://hackaday.com/2012/07/05/raspberry-pi-prototyping-boards-available-at-adafruit/