Adafruit Prototyping Pi Plate Kit for Raspberry Pi

SKU: ADA801 Brand: Adafruit

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Now that you've finally got your hands on a Raspberry Pi® , you're probably itching to make some fun embedded computer projects with it. What you need is an add on prototyping Pi Plate from Adafruit, which can snap onto the Pi PCB (and is removable later if you wish) and gives you all sorts of prototyping goodness to make building on top of the Pi super easy.

Note: This kit is best used for the Raspberry Pi Model A or Model B. You can use it with any "2x20 GPIO type" Pi (A+, B+, Zero, Pi 2, Pi 3) but only the 'top 26 pins' will be broken out for use

Adafruit added lots of basic but essential goodies. First up, there's a big prototyping area, half of which is 'breadboard' style and half of which is 'perfboard' style so you can wire up DIP chips, sensors, and the like. Along the edges of the proto area, all the GPIO/I2C/SPI and power pins are broken out to 0.1" stips so you can easily connect to them. On the edges of the prototyping area, (almost all of) the breakout pins are also connected to labeled 3.5mm screw-terminal blocks. This makes it easy to semi-permanently wire in sensors, LEDs, etc. There's also a 4-block terminal block broken out to 0.1" pads for general non-GPIO wiring. Finally, Adafruit had a little space remaining over the metal connectors so they put in an SOIC surface mount chip breakout area, for those chips that dont come in DIP format.

This kit comes as a set of parts, a little soldering is required to put it together but its really easy, even a beginner can do it in 15-20 minutes or so. The Pi (and Adafruit's kits) are meant to help Adafruit all learn skills, soldering is fun! Check out Adafruit's tutorial for how to assemble

The nice thing about this plate is Adafruit are getting custom header breakouts that are taller than usual, so that the proto plate sits above the metal connectors, out of the way and allows for plenty of workspace. It fits in Adafruit's Pi Box enclosure with access to the terminal blocks so you can keep the Pi safe while prototyping. We'll have stackable header kits as well for those who want to put multiple plates on top.

For more information, including some usage ideas check out Adafruit's Proto Pi Plate tutorial

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EagleCAD PCB files, Fritzing object and more in the tutorial!

Serve up your Pi projects on a Prototyping Pi Plate, instructions!

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