Kickstarter at 91%.   Missing Boards for the Raspberry Pi almost funded!

 

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The Missing Boards for the Raspberry Pi

The Raspberry Pi is a fabulous board.  You can do almost anything with one of these inexpensive computers.   However, after using the Raspberry Pi for a number of years, we have determined what boards are really missing in the Raspberry Pi ecosystem.  They are:

1) A inexpensive way of rapid prototyping with the Pi

2) An inexpensive flexible Analog to Digital Converter

3) A way of adding additional GPIOs with out adding complexity

These missing pieces are what we are addressing in our new Kickstarter!

• Pi to Grove Plugin Board – Pi2Grover
• Grove 4 Channel 16 Bit Analog to Digital Converter
• Digital Grove Extender

Board Compatibility

Two of these boards work with the Arduino and ESP8266 in addition to the Raspberry Pi.   The Grove ADC and the Digital Grove extender are 3.3V and 5V compatible.

What is a Grove Connector?

The way we have been wiring I2C connections before just didn’t work for building fast and quick IOT projects.  Then we found Grove.

There are hundreds of Grove Devices from multiple manufacturers around the world.   Just check out Seeedstudio.   Just for a quick look at over 100 boards.

You can’t plug it in backwards.   If you put the connector in the wrong plug it just doesn’t work.  No smoke.  No fire. This makes us happy as we look over into our Box Of Death, filled with boards we have ruined.

We quickly found the Grove connectors and their respective cables very useful. With the large selection of Grove I2C devices available, we decided to include a Grove connector on all our future boards and products.

For more information, check out our full Grove Tutorial here.