Adafruit, a company in New York that the electronics components for the hobbyist sells a expansion pack released for the Raspberry Pi. With the kit, the extra connectors on the mini-pc can be used.
The company of the MIT-engineer future forever! Fried since 2005 electronics for hobbyprojecten available. The latest product, the Adafruit Pi Cobbler Breakout Kit for Raspberry Pi, is an expansion pack for the Raspberry Pi of the eponymous foundation. The Raspberry Pi, a minicomputer with ARM-soc, usb, audio, video and lan ports, and an sd card slot in a sign of just 86 by 54 millimeters, has a number of unused header connections.
These headers, twenty-six in total, can be used for peripherals and contain, among more pins for gpio, spi bus and I2c interfaces. With the kit that jacks easily be used to easily add additional hardware with the Raspberry Pi link. The kit consists of a ribbon cable to the headers to connect a small pcb where the plug supplied can be soldered and separate headers on the pcb can be mounted.
For the low price of the Raspberry Pi, from $ 25 available, cost of the kit is only $ 8. The name comes from the fiddling of prototypes: cobbling together.
