Nano HAT Hacker

by Pimoroni

The Black HAT Hacker in bijou form. It's Nano HAT Hacker (formerly known as Pico HAT Hacker)!

Nano HAT Hacker gives you full access to all 40 pins on your Pi, broken out at the top. It's a super-skinny 0.8mm PCB, like our SHIMs, so you can solder it right onto the pins on your Pi and still have enough height on a standard header to fit a HAT or pHAT on top.

There's handy labels for all of the pins, with BCM pin numbering on one side, and more descriptive labels on the other to show where the I2C, UART, SPI, PWM, and I2S pins are. You can solder the Nano HAT Hacker either way up, depending on which set of labels you find most useful.

Please note that Nano HAT Hacker is not compatible with the Raspberry Pi Pico.

Features

  • BCM and descriptive pin labelling
  • Mounting holes (M2.5)
  • 0.8mm thick PCB
  • Compatible with all 40-pin header Raspberry Pi models

Notes

  • You'll need to pick up an extra 40-pin male header to solder onto Nano HAT Hacker
  • Be sparing with the solder when soldering Nano HAT Hacker onto the pins of your Pi, otherwise the solder will wick up the pins and you'll find it awkward to fit HATs/pHATs on top
  • Dimensions: 65x19x0.8mm (LxWxH)

24 customer reviews

a year ago
Really helpful to be able to connect devices to the GPIO pins at the same time as plugging in a screen
by Pete about Nano HAT Hacker via REVIEWS.io
2 years ago
I used the Nano HAT Hacker as a GPIO PASSTHROUGH as the Pi's GPIOs were taken by an attached display. I wanted to extend the GPIO and keep the profile low to fit in a shallow case. It measures 65mm x 19mm x 1.5mm. It's the perfect GPIO Passthrough, although I'd have liked the holes to be very slightly smaller to just scrape through the Pi GPIO pins thus avoiding any soldering. I had to apply a tiny amount of solder at each pin joint to ensure full contact. I would highly recommend this to anyone who needs to extend the Pi GPIO where the header is fully occupied by another peripheral device, in my case a display.
by Anonymous about Nano HAT Hacker via REVIEWS.io
2 years ago
Board is quite thick - not the 'shim' I expected. I needed two boards to get two slots and even then it was a bit of a bodge.
by Anonymous about Nano HAT Hacker via REVIEWS.io
3 years ago
Excellent handy addition to any Pi. Using it with a zero 2 w to give access to the GPIO pins when using HATs
by DAVID about Nano HAT Hacker via REVIEWS.io
3 years ago
I use this pcb to multiplex the pins if the pi is attached to a display (e.g. Pimoroni's e-inks). These displays block all pins without using them.
by Bernhard about Nano HAT Hacker via REVIEWS.io
4 years ago
I have a few of them (when they were called "pico"), they are very useful for pin-multiplexing for Pi-Zero-projects.
by Bernhard about Nano HAT Hacker via REVIEWS.io
4 years ago
Pico HAT Hacker was so thin that I had no problem putting on Pimoroni Piano Hat. The reference marker is also clear and very convenient.
by Anonymous about Nano HAT Hacker via REVIEWS.io
4 years ago
This small board is one of those products that do exactly one thing and do it right. It gives you an extra GPIO-Header and labels all the pins (in two different ways depending on how you mount it). It's very thin so it shouldn't cause any problems with hats mounted on the Pi header. It also has the nice black/gold/white color theme that Pimoroni puts on a lot of their boards and which I am a big fan of.
by Stefan about Nano HAT Hacker via REVIEWS.io

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