{"product_id":"breakout-garden-hat-i2c-spi","title":"Breakout Garden for Raspberry Pi (I2C + SPI)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNow with SPI!\u003c\/strong\u003e Grow your projects on Breakout Garden. It's the easiest way to use breakouts with your Raspberry Pi. There's no soldering required, just pop up to six Pimoroni breakouts (4xI2C, 2xSPI) into the slots on Breakout Garden and get started coding and creating.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt's ideal for prototyping projects without the need for complicated wiring, soldering, or breadboards, and you've always got the option of changing your setup thanks to the way that Breakout Garden works.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe six sturdy slots on Breakout Garden are edge connectors that connect Pimoroni breakouts to the pins on your Raspberry Pi. This new version of Breakout Garden has two SPI slots for Pimoroni SPI breakouts like our \u003ca href=\"\/en-eu\/products\/0-96-spi-colour-lcd-160x80-breakout\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e0.96\" LCD Breakout\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt's also got four I2C slots for Pimoroni I2C breakouts. Because I2C is a bus, you can use multiple I2C devices at the same time, providing they don't have the same address (we've made sure that all of our breakouts have different addresses).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe've also broken out a load of useful pins along the top of Breakout Garden, so you can connect other devices and integrate them into your Breakout Garden projects. If you have \u003ca href=\"\/en-eu\/collections\/pimoroni-breakouts\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ePimoroni breakouts\u003c\/a\u003e to which you've already soldered headers, then you can use this top row of pins to use them alongside other breakouts on Breakout Garden.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eFeatures\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSix sturdy edge-connector slots for \u003ca href=\"\/en-eu\/collections\/pimoroni-breakouts\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ePimoroni breakouts\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4x I2C slots (5 pins)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2x SPI slots (7 pins)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e0.1” pitch, 5 or 7 pin connectors\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBroken-out pins (1x10 strip of male header included)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStandoffs (M2.5, 10mm height) included to hold your Breakout Garden securely\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReverse polarity protection (built into breakouts)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHAT format board\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0174\/1800\/files\/breakout_hat_spi_PIM445.pdf?v=1621325469\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eSchematic\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eUsing Breakout Garden\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe'd suggest using the included standoffs to attach Breakout Garden firmly to your Raspberry Pi. Pop the screws through the mounting holes on your Raspberry Pi, from below, and then screw the standoffs onto the screws. Push Breakout Garden onto your Pi's GPIO pins, and then screw through each mounting hole into the standoffs to hold everything steady and secure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBecause of the way that I2C (the protocol that Breakout Garden uses) works, it doesn't matter which slot on Breakout Garden you plug your Pimoroni breakout into. Each I2C device has an address (you'll see it on the back of each breakout) that it uses to identify itself to other I2C devices, so it's effectively saying to your Raspberry Pi, \"Hey, it's me, Bob!\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSPI is a faster, higher-throughput protocol for talking to devices like displays. The two SPI slots have different chip select (CS) and GPIO pins that you should change in software, depending on which slot you're using.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe top\/back slot (closest to the Breakout Garden logo) uses chip select 0 (BCM 8) and BCM 18 for the GPIO (used for things like LCD backlights) pin. The bottom\/front slot uses chip select 1 (BCM 7) and BCM 19 for the GPIO pin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe've built reverse polarity protection into our \u003ca href=\"\/en-eu\/collections\/pimoroni-breakouts\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ePimoroni breakouts\u003c\/a\u003e, meaning that there's no magic blue smoke if you accidentally plug one in the wrong way round. However, the correct way to plug them in is to make sure that the labels on the pins on your breakout and the labels on each Breakout Garden slot match up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eSoftware\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHead over to the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/pimoroni\/breakout-garden\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBreakout Garden GitHub repo\u003c\/a\u003e and give our automagic installer a go. Just pop a few breakouts into Breakout Garden, run the installer, and SHAZAM!, the software for the appropriate breakouts will be installed (this won't work for SPI breakouts). We've also got \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/pimoroni\/breakout-garden\/tree\/master\/examples\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ea few nice examples\u003c\/a\u003e to show you what's possible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHere's a few other project ideas to get you thinking:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA laser tape measure with \u003ca href=\"\/en-eu\/products\/vl53l1x-breakout\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eVL53L1X Time of Flight Breakout\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/en-eu\/products\/1-12-oled-breakout\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e1.12\" OLED\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAn environmental display with \u003ca href=\"\/en-eu\/products\/bme680-breakout\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBME680 Breakout\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/en-eu\/products\/bh1745-luminance-and-colour-sensor-breakout\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBH1745 Luminance and Colour Sensor Breakout\u003c\/a\u003e, and \u003ca href=\"\/en-eu\/products\/1-12-oled-breakout\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e1.12\" OLED\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA really sophisticated presence detector with \u003ca href=\"\/en-eu\/products\/mlx90640-thermal-camera-breakout\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eMLX90640 Thermal Camera Breakout\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/en-eu\/products\/lsm303d-6dof-motion-sensor-breakout\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eLSM303D 6DoF Breakout\u003c\/a\u003e, and the \u003ca href=\"\/en-eu\/products\/bh1745-luminance-and-colour-sensor-breakout\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBH1745 Luminance and Colour Sensor Breakout\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Pimoroni","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":27671494950995,"sku":"PIM445","price":13.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0174\/1800\/products\/Breakout_Garden_HAT_-_SPI_3_of_4.JPG?v=1560097126","url":"https:\/\/shop.pimoroni.com\/en-eu\/products\/breakout-garden-hat-i2c-spi","provider":"Pimoroni Ltd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}