{"product_id":"breakout-garden-mini-i2c-spi","title":"Breakout Garden Mini (I2C + SPI)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNow with SPI! \u003c\/strong\u003eThe easiest way to use breakouts with your Raspberry Pi. There's no soldering required, just pop up to three Pimoroni breakouts (2xI2C, 1xSPI) into the slots on Breakout Garden Mini and get started coding and creating.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGrow your projects on Breakout Garden. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe three 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 an SPI slot for Pimoroni SPI breakouts like the 0.96\" LCD Breakout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt's also got two 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\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCheck out our full range of Breakout Garden's and Breakout's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003ehere\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFeatures\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThree sturdy edge-connector slots for\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ePimoroni breakouts\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2x I2C slots (5 pins)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1x SPI slot (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\u003eReverse polarity protection (built into breakouts)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003epHAT format board\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCompatible with all 40-pin header Raspberry Pi models\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUsing Breakout Garden\u003c\/strong\u003e\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 Mini 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 SPI slot on Breakout Garden Mini uses chip select 1 (BCM 7) and BCM 19 for the GPIO pin (used for things like LCD backlights).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe've built reverse polarity protection into our\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ePimoroni breakouts, 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 Mini slot match up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe've also broken out a load of useful pins along the top of Breakout Garden Mini, so you can connect other devices and integrate them into your Breakout Garden projects. If you have\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ePimoroni breakouts\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eto which you've already soldered headers, then you can use this top row of pins to use them alongside other breakouts on Breakout Garden Mini.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSoftware\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHead over to the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eBreakout Garden GitHub repo\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand give our automagic installer a go. Just pop a few breakouts into Breakout Garden Mini, run the installer, and SHAZAM!, the software for the appropriate breakouts will be installed. We've also got\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ea few nice examples\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eto show you what's possible.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pimoroni","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51616985907506,"sku":"ple1787257905804","price":7.67,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0935\/0289\/8482\/files\/breakout-garden-mini-i2c-spi_1.jpg?v=1787257910","url":"https:\/\/www.mapleborough.shop\/products\/breakout-garden-mini-i2c-spi","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}