Pi2Grover – Grove Interface for the Raspberry Pi Released
SwitchDoc Labs is pleased to announce the Pi2Grover – Grove Interface add-on board for the Raspberry Pi. Immediate availability. This board is a result of a very successful kickstarter, funded at over 400%. This is the device that can make your IOT prototyping much easier. No soldering required to hook up hundreds of Grove devices.
Click here to go straight to the SwitchDoc Store Page for the Pi2Grover.
The Pi2Grover board provides 15 Grove connectors for your prototyping needs. 10 Grove Digital, 4 Grove I2C, and one Grove UART. Fast prototyping with many, many Grove devices available. No software drivers required. You are right next to the hardware. Just where you want to be.
It plugs right into your Raspberry Pi with a special connector that allows you to plug boards or hats on top of the Grove board. And you know, we like hats at SwitchDoc Labs. Especially Fedora hats!
What are Grove Devices?
There are hundreds of Grove compatible devices out now from numerous manufacturers. Seeedstudio is one example. They have over 100 sensors and boards available.
SwitchDoc Labs has over 25 Grove products available and more coming soon.
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Pi2Grover Best IOT Prototyping System Out There!
When I finally understood what SwitchDoc was doing with the Pi2Grover board and Grove connectors during the kickstarter, I was very pleased. I bought every Grove sensor I could find (well, not all – there are hundreds) and I’m pleased how fast I can build things and test concepts quickly…-Carroll
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Downloads (no software drivers needed)
Theory of Operation
The Pi2Grover board provides buffered connections and voltage translation between the Raspberry Pi pins and external Grove modules. Pi2Grover provides bi-directional voltage translation from the Raspberry Pi (3.3V) to 5V. The board is “transparent” to any software, so existing drivers for modules will work with no translation or rewriting of drivers required. Voltage translation for I2C Bus is also supported by the Pi2Grover board.
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