Adafruit Prototyping Pi Plate Kit for Raspberry Pi

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


First up, there's a big prototyping area, half of which is 'breadboard' style andhalf 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 to0.1" strips so you can easily connect to them. On the edges of the prototyping area, allof the breakout pins are also connected to labeled 3.5mm screw-terminal blocks. This makesit easy to semi-permanently wire in sensors, LEDs, etc. There's also a 4-block terminalblock broken out to 0.1" pads for general non-GPIO wiring. Finally, we had a little spaceremaining over the metal connectors so we put in an SOIC surface mount chip breakout area,for those chips that dont come in DIP format.

This kit comes as a set ofparts, a little soldering is required to put it together but its really easy, even abeginner can do it in 15-20 minutes or so. Checkout the tutorial for how to assemble

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

For more information, including some usage ideas checkout our Proto Pi Plate tutorial

What is the Raspberry Pi ? A low-cost ARMGNU/Linux box.

The Raspberry Pi is a single-board computer developed in the UK by theRaspberry Pi Foundation with the intention of stimulating the teaching of basic computerscience in schools. The design is based on a Broadcom BCM2835 system on a chip (SoC),which includes an ARM1176JZF-S 700 MHz processor, VideoCore IV GPU, and 256 megabytes ofRAM. The design does not include a built-in hard disk or solid-state drive, insteadrelying on an SD card for booting and long-term storage. The Foundation plans to supportFedora Linux as the initial system software package/distribution, with support for Debianand Arch Linux as well - Wikipedia.

Raspberry Pi is a trademark of theRaspberry Pi Foundation.