Pimoroni Breakout Garden for Raspberry Pi (I2C + SPI)

Now with SPI! 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.

It'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.

The 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 0.96" LCD Breakout.

It'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).

We'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 Pimoroni breakouts 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.

Features:

• Six sturdy edge-connector slots for Pimoroni breakouts.
• 4x I2C slots (5 pins) and 2x SPI slots (7 pins).
• 0.1” pitch, 5 or 7 pin connectors.
• Broken-out pins (1x10 strip of male header included).
• Standoffs (M2.5, 10mm height) included to hold your Breakout Garden securely.
• Reverse polarity protection (built into breakouts).
• HAT format board.

Using Breakout Garden is straightforward. Attach it to your Raspberry Pi using the included standoffs, ensuring stable and secure connections. Pay attention to the correct slot for specific protocols like I2C or SPI, based on your breakout type, and match labels to avoid errors.

Software support is available through the Breakout Garden GitHub repo, featuring an automagic installer for seamless setup. Explore various project ideas such as a laser tape measure or an environmental display by combining different Pimoroni breakouts efficiently.