Breakout Garden Mini (I2C)

Features

• Three sturdy edge-connector slots for Pimoroni breakouts
• 0.1” pitch, 5 pin connectors
• Broken-out pins (1×10 strip of male header included)
• Reverse polarity protection (built into breakouts)
• pHAT format board
• Compatible with all 40-pin header Raspberry Pi models

Using Breakout Garden

Because 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!”

We’ve built reverse polarity protection into our Pimoroni 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.

We’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 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 Mini.