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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. We 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, 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, we had a little space remaining over the metal connectors so we put in an SOIC surface mount chip breakout area, for those chips that dont come in DIP format. Raspberry Pi not Included
R**R
Pin Interferences Prevent Solid Mating To The Pi 2 GPIO
I bought this for the Pi 2. The Adafruit description says that it will fit on a Pi 2, but you will only have 26 pins. I'm ok with that, but 4 of the screw terminal pins interfere with the corner USB case. 2 others interfere with the ethernet case. You can't trim these pins down enough to get the header to mate solidly with the Pi GPIO header pins, and even if you can get it to mate, you still have dead shorts where the interfering pins hit the USB and Ethernet cases. Electrical tape insulator? Sloppy! Needs a much taller header. I will look for a 26 pin male by female header, or a male by female ribbon cable, to use as a spacer. If I need a ribbon cable, I might as well use a 40 pin cable, go to a half size proto board, buy separate screw terminal blocks and make exactly what I want for any given application. Don't expect any Pi case to work with this board. Nice idea, very badly executed.
J**S
Saves you some soldering in the future by requiring you to solder now.
Nice accessory for the Pi, assembly required so don't buy if you don't have some basic soldering ability. Needs to be modified to work with the case I had (just changed the insertion depth on the header, made it slightly taller to fit on the top cover) And provides some dead-simple terminals for prototyping and device integration. Lots of neat additions make this a useful addon to the amazing Raspberry Pi.
A**R
Count your parts
I didn't until soldering, then discovered that they forgot to include one terminal block. Board is well laid out. The big black connector is probably meant to take stacked shields, so use minimal solder there. Use lots of solder on the terminal blocks for solid connections, and be sure they lay flat on the board.
M**.
Four Stars
Nice prototyping board for the Pi. I've had no problems with it, but it does have to be assembled.
D**S
Great....but WAY Overpriced!
This is a great product, but they are charging almost 60% more than buying it direct from Adafruit. They have it for $15.
R**S
Three Stars
It probably works well with older PIs but not the Raspberry Pi 2 Model B (1GB)
W**E
good product
The board seems really good, but I have not assembled it yet. The webstie has clear instructions for how to assemble, so I don't think there willbe any issues. It is a good board for prototyping for a RPi
K**R
Two Stars
This is a solder-it-yourself kit. Nothing is assembled. Not for the faint of heart.
S**N
Quality item.
Great qualify item, does what it says on the box but with a quality feel. Worth the price.
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