Now even children with not-quite-there-yet dexterity can assemble these modules, opening up a market to a younger audience. mCookie addresses this challenge by using pogo pins for electrical contacts, and magnets to ensure proper alignment. Unfortunately their tiny size also meant their risk of pin misalignment and corresponding damage would be higher as well. Following that established path, Microduino had offered tiny Arduino-compatible boards and peripherals which connected with pins and headers just like their full-sized counterparts. Many Arduino projects draw from an ecosystem of Arduino shields. our attention was caught by a demonstration of their mCookie modules in action: installing a peripheral module took less than a second with a “click” of magnets finding each other. Walking past one such display by Microduino, Inc. Many were in attendance at Maker Faire Bay Area 2019 toiling in their endless loops. We’ve seen countless different robot kits promoted for STEM education, every one of which can perform the robotic “Hello World” task of line following. We suspect that decision was made to improve access to the LPF2 connectors, especially if they were surface mount parts.Ĭontinue reading “New Part Day: Raspberry Pi LEGO HAT” → Posted in Misc Hacks, Raspberry Pi Tagged lego, lego mindstorms, LEGO Spike, raspberry pi Curiously they decided to mount the PCB with active parts facing down, giving a flat rear surface to park things on.
The board uses a surface mount pass-through type header which allows pins from the Pi to protrude through the PCB, allowing stacking more HATs on top.
This new HAT board will work with every Raspberry Pi board with a 40-pin GPIO header.īased on the RPI2040 microcontroller, it makes an interesting detour away from dumb slave boards, although it looks like the firmware is closed (for now) so you’ll have to make do with the pre-baked capabilities and talk to it with the supplied python library.Īccording to the documentation, the communication between the Pi and the RPI2040 nestled beneath the HAT PCB is plaintext-over-serial, freeing up the majority of the GPIO pins for other uses. The Raspberry Pi Foundation have been busy little bees for the last couple of years producing their own silicon, new boards and now in collaboration with the LEGO Education team a new HAT to connect to the LEGO SPIKE education platform.
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