Features
- Six sturdy edge-connector slots for Pimoroni breakouts
- 4x I2C slots (5 pins)
- 2x SPI slots (7 pins)
- 0.1” pitch, 5 or 7 pin connectors
- Broken-out pins (1×10 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
- Compatible with Raspberry Pi 3 B+, 3, 2, B+, A+, Zero, and Zero W
Using Breakout Garden
We’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.
Because 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!”
SPI 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.
The 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.