Raspberry Pi Boards
A collection of electronic boards for hobby projects. Includes Analog to Digital converters, Servo controllers, and LED strips.
Miscellaneous Boards
| Logic Level Converter, bi-directional, x10 bi-directional, x5 | $10 $8 | link link |
| 74AHCT125 level converter chip DIN | ||
| MCP23017 IO Expansion Board I2C | $8 | link |
| PCF8574 PCF8574T IO Expansion Board | $7 | link |
| Adafruit FT232H – General Purpose USB to GPIO+SPI+I2C | $15 | link |
| PCA9685 (16 Channel 12-bit PWM) Servo Motor Driver Board (Owned) | $9 | link |
| PiJuice – Battery project | $68 | link |
| SenseHat – Orientation, Temperature, Humidity project | $38 | link |
| SunFounder Holder Breadboard with GPIO T-board (owned) | $13 | link |
Raspberry Pi Kits and Wiring Diagrams and Software
Since the hard part of Raspberry Pi projects is the integration of software to hardware (e.g. the wiring), below are some hardware kits that provide software, but more importantly, provide wiring diagrams for the software.
| SunFounder Electronics Fun Kit with 1602 LCD (.pdf on cd) Uses standard python RPi.GPIO library. | $24 | link |
| Freenove Super Starter Kit for Raspberry Pi (github) Includes GPIO extension T-board. Uses non-standard python ‘Processing Development Environment’ (PDE) and library. | $22 | link |
| JANSANE 16×2 1602 LCD blue I2C, 2 pack I2C (4 wire) integrated with 1602. Uses smbus library. (Owned) | $10 | link |
LED Strips.
Density: 30-per-meter versus 60-per-meter. WS2812 versus WS2801 versus WS2811. Raspberry pi only has 1 PWM output – so cannot play sounds and control the strip at the same time. Note that GPIO Pin 18 is “magical”, not “arbitrary”.
| WS2812 RGB Tutorial WS2812 NeoPixel Raspberry Pi WS2812B NeoPixel Adafruit CircuitPython Neopixel showing diode wiring | link link link link | |
| 5050 versus 3528 | link | |
| 60/Meter – 1M – Alitove, WS2812B | $11 | link |
| 60/Meter – 5M – Chinly, WS2812B waterproof 60/Meter – 1M – Chinly, WS2812B waterproof (owned) 60/Meter – 5M .- Alitove, WS2812B waterproof | $32 $10 $35 | link link link |
| 30/Meter – 5M – Chinly, WS2812B | $21 | link |
| Power – Alitove 5V 10A, with terminal connector Power – Alcorol 5V 10A, with terminal connector (owned) | $20 $18 | link link |
| Power – Alitove Cage 5V 20A, fanless | $19 | link |
| Connectors – 5050, 3Pin, 10mm | $13 | link |
LED 12V instead of 5V – $21 – link project. Uses PiGPIO – “hardware timed PWM on all GPIO 0-31. link. Next
Sensor Kit – Elegoo EL-KIT-000 37-in-1 for Arduino ($23, 2019/Jan). Amazon Link. Instructables Link.
Sensor Kit – KeyStudio $50 (wiringPi library, C) Amazon Link. Manual Link.
USB-C (Preparing for Raspberry Pi 4)
| USB-C to USB-A, 6 feet, “recommended” | $13 | link |
| USB Type C to USB 3.0 Adapter, “recommended” | $10 | link |
LCD and OLED
| OLED I2C 12864 128×64 Yellow Blue SSD1306 Driver | $7 | link project |
Miscellaneous Links
| UPS | UPS article |
