Adafruit Perma-Proto HAT for Pi Mini Kit

by Adafruit

Design your own Pi HAT, attach custom circuitry and otherwise dress your Pi 3, 2, A+ or B+ with this jaunty prototyping HAT kit.

  • It has a grid of 0.1" prototyping soldering holes for attaching chips, resistors, LED, potentiometers and more.
  • The holes are connected underneath with traces to mimic the solderless breadboards you're familiar with.
  • There are also long power strips for +3V, +5V and Ground connections to the Pi.
  • Near the top we break out nearly every pin you could want to connect to the Pi (#26 didnt quite make the cut).

This is just the basic version of our Perma-Proto HAT.  It comes with a printed circuit board and a single 2x20 GPIO Header for Raspberry Pi to put your Perma-Proto on top of your Raspberry Pi (like a nice little hat...)

Availble in two variants

A bit of light soldering is required to attach the header to the PCB but it's easy work.

5 customer reviews

3 years ago
The quality of the British-made PCBs is impressive, much better than the Chinese ones, just like in the old days! If you are not afraid of soldering, or wire wrap, these Hats are perfect for developing very personal projects, very quickly.
by Anonymous about Adafruit Perma-Proto HAT for Pi Mini Kit via REVIEWS.io
6 years ago
I've used a lot of these in my Pi projects. I use a stacking header so I can put it between my Pi and Hat. I'll mount a RTC on it and maybe some male headers so I can plug other sensor boards etc in with female to female jumper wires. Its a great way to get access to your GPIO pins and still put a Hat on your Pi.
by Kerry about Adafruit Perma-Proto HAT for Pi Mini Kit via REVIEWS.io
7 years ago
Great board for turning a breadboard project into something more permanent. Easy to use and solder to. I used it to wire up a 433mhz transmitter to remote control some mains switches, worked exactly as it did in the breadboard prototype.
by Anthony about Adafruit Perma-Proto HAT for Pi Mini Kit via REVIEWS.io
10 years ago
This board is fantastic - it has a nice number of slots for components, and most GPIO pins broken out. I used one in a recent robotics project, and it's perfect! I purchased the version with EEPROM, but there's no readily available beginners tutorial for it, so I never used it. Having something like this available would be fantastic. It would be nice if the GPIO pins were arranged in an ascending order - they're a little random at the moment (although I can see why they did it - it would be a nightmare to order them all and deal with the traces). Another great improvement would be provision to easily add external power lines. I had to cut the traces, as I needed to drive servos with it and didn't want to draw all the current through the Pi. Also, the header is really hard to get on straight, so it would be helpful if that came already done. All the above are minor issues though - it's high quality, looks great and works even better!
by Archie about Adafruit Perma-Proto HAT for Pi Mini Kit via REVIEWS.io