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By Dj Walker Morgan.\u00a0Originally\u00a0published on Code Scaling<\/a> and\u00a0reproduced with permission.<\/p>\n

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Raspberry Pi\u2019s are great little Linux devices but they have plenty of limitations when it comes to comes to wiring up to the analog world or just behaving like a micro-controller. There\u2019s been various attempts to weld Pi and Arduino together (I have some) like the Dexter Industries\u2019\u00a0BrickPi<\/a>\u00a0that plugs you into the Lego bricosystem or their\u00a0Arduberry<\/a>\u00a0which brings Arduino shield connectors out the top of the board.<\/p>\n

The idea is simple in that it\u2019s actually an Arduino-compatible micro-controller on the board with firmware which talks serial to the Raspberry Pi to take instructions on how to control the various I\/O ports belonging to the controller. It\u2019s also quite compelling, especially when you realise that later on you can put your own firmware on the micro-controller.<\/p>\n

But wiring stuff up is a chore, especially when you are learning or teaching how to control things. Thats where I\u2019ve found the\u00a0Grove kit<\/a>\u00a0really handy. It\u2019s prebuilt sensors and displays and controls and\u2026 well there\u2019s lots\u2026 and they all connect using identical four wire cables and connectors to a standard 4 pin port. There\u2019s shields for Arduino devices which give a load of these ports and there\u2019s Arduino compatibles with these ports on them and you\u2019ll even find them on Intel IoT hardware. The folks at Seeed Studio took to uniting these ideas and created the GrovePi, a board for the Pi which was based on the BrickPi concept but then put all the IO on Grove ports.<\/p>\n

And now they are about to ship the\u00a0GrovePi+<\/a>\u00a0and a\u00a0Grove Pi+ Starter Kit<\/a>\u00a0which comes with 12 Grove sensors or outputs. The\u00a0GrovePi+ wiki<\/a>\u00a0gives more detail. The refresh works with the B, B+ and A+ models and has mounting holes to match each of them. The serial connection is more reliable and faster, there\u2019s a hole for the camera cable to pass through and there\u2019s better voltage level handling.<\/p>\n

So if you\u2019re looking for a way to make teaching internet of things things with the Raspberry Pi, the Grove Pi+ might be right up your street. Me? I already have the sensors so I\u2019ll just be grabbing the board and hacking away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Dj Walker Morgan.\u00a0Originally\u00a0published on Code Scaling and\u00a0reproduced with permission. 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