Hardware Reference
In-Depth Information
Figure 13-6:
he Pi Plate
connected to a
cased Raspberry
Pi
You can purchase the Prototyping Pi Plate Kit from Adafruit at
http://www.adafruit
Fen Logic Gertboard
Properly termed the Raspberry Pi I/O Extension, the Gertboard (shown in Figure 13-7) is
named for its inventor Gert van Loo. An employee of Broadcom and a member of the team
that designed the BCM2835 SoC processor at the heart of the Raspberry Pi, van Loo created
the Gertboard as a way of unlocking some of the power of the chip hidden by the Pi's overall
design and providing a powerful and versatile platform for electronic tinkering.
