The Explorer HAT Pro is a terrific prototyping side-kick for your Raspberry Pi 2, B+, or A+!

On the Explorer Pro from Pimoroni there are a heap of useful input and output options that will take your projects to the next level. Great for driving motors, using analog sensors, interfacing with 5V systems, and touch interfaces!

Features:

4x buffered 5V tolerant inputsHook up your Pi to accept input from 5V systems (like Arduino Uno/Leonardo or 5V Trinkets). We've used a 5-channel buffer that will accept anything from 2V-5V as logic high.

Hook up your Pi to accept input from 5V systems (like Arduino Uno/Leonardo or 5V Trinkets). We've used a 5-channel buffer that will accept anything from 2V-5V as logic high.

4x powered 5v outputs (up to 500mA!)The onboard darlington array can supply up to 500mA per channel (but you'll be limited to driving around 1A total from the board). Ideal for stepper motors, solenoids, and relays.

The onboard darlington array can supply up to 500mA per channel (but you'll be limited to driving around 1A total from the board). Ideal for stepper motors, solenoids, and relays.

4x capacitive touch pads + 4x capacitive alligator clip padsFour along the front edge for touch input (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4) and four up the side for attaching alligator clips to objects (such as fruit, or tin foil) for experimentation!

Four along the front edge for touch input (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4) and four up the side for attaching alligator clips to objects (such as fruit, or tin foil) for experimentation!

4x colored LEDsIndependently controllable LEDs (red, green, blue, and yellow) that make great status indicators.

Independently controllable LEDs (red, green, blue, and yellow) that make great status indicators.

1x mini breadboard on top

The Explorer HAT *Pro* also has a few additional features:

4x analog inputsA tidy way to integrate analog signals into your project.

A tidy way to integrate analog signals into your project.

2x H-bridge motor driversDrive two 5V motors bidirectionally with up to 200mA per channel. Ideal with our micro-metal gear-motors to create the perfect little buggy! You can even soft-PWM for full speed control.

Drive two 5V motors bidirectionally with up to 200mA per channel. Ideal with our micro-metal gear-motors to create the perfect little buggy! You can even soft-PWM for full speed control.

A heap of useful (unprotected) 3v3 goodies from the GPIO

And head on over to Pimoroni's GitHub to find a Python library, examples, documentation, and a brief introduction to the Explorer HAT!

The Explorer pHAT is the perfect prototyping side-kick for your Raspberry Pi. Based on Pimoroni's popular Explorer Hat Pro, this is a smaller cheaper version designed to fit perfectly on a Raspberry Pi Zero!

A heap of useful input and output options have been added that will take your projects to the next level. Great for driving motors, using analog sensors, and interfacing with 5V sensors & systems

Though designed to match the format of the Raspberry Pi Zero it is compatible with all 40-pin GPIO Raspberry Pi variants (2/B+/A+).

Features:

Python API

Four analog inputs - A tidy way to integrate analog signals into your project.

Two H-bridge motor drivers - Drive two 5V motors bidirectionally with up to 200mA per channel. Ideal with our micro-metal gear-motors to create the perfect little buggy! You can even soft-PWM for full speed control.

Four buffered 5V tolerant inputs - Hook up your Pi to accept input from 5V systems (like Arduino Uno/Leonardo or 5V Trinkets). We've used a 5-channel buffer that will accept anything from 2V-5V as logic high.

Four powered 5V outputs (up to 500mA!) - The onboard darlington array can supply up to 500mA per channel (but you'll be limited to driving around 1A total from the board). Ideal for stepper motors, solenoids, and relays.

Kit includes: Assembled Explorer HAT PCB, one 2x20 0.1" female GPIO header, and one 1x20 0.1" female header. Some light soldering is required to attach the header on, or you can of course solder the pHAT right onto the Pi Zero

Check out Pimonori's full Python library, documentation and examples.

Raspberry Pi not included!

Having a discrete, slick, and tidy power supply is always tricky when taking a project on the go...but get ready to roam the earth worry free with the tiny little Pimoroni LiPo Shim! It aims to give you the most compact power supply possible for all versions of Raspberry Pi.

You can either solder the 0.8mm thick PCB directly to the bottom of your GPIO header for a permanent solution or solder on the provided 2x6 0.1" female header which will allow you to remove your LiPo Shim at any time (but will block the GPIO pins).

It uses the TPS61232 Step-Up Boost Converter from Texas Instruments which offers up to 96% efficiency. The board includes power on and battery low indicator LEDs. During shutdown (due to undervoltage or external selection) the quiescent current is just 15uA sip.

Please note: This is not a charger, you will need a separate charger to keep your LiPo/LiIon batteries juiced up! We recommend using our Micro Lipo to top up your battery.

Features:

0.8mm thick PCB

Shaped to sit as low as possible on the Raspberry Pi 3, 2, Zero, A+, B+

2-pole JST connector ideal for most LiPo/LiIon batteries

Power and low battery LED indicators

Supplies up to 1.5A continuous current

Low battery warning at 3.4V (assets GPIO #4 high)

Automatic shutdown at 3.0V to protect your battery

VBAT+, GND, and EN pins available to break out

15uA quiescent current

The Pan-Tilt HAT from Pimoroni lets you mount and control a pan-tilt module right on top of your Raspberry Pi. The HAT and its on-board microcontroller let you independently drive the two servos (pan and tilt), as well as driving up to 24 regular LED (with PWM control) or NeoPixel RGB (or RGBW) LEDs. There's also a handy slot through which you can route the servo, LED, and camera cables. The module pans and tilts through 180 degrees in each axis.

Use Pan-Tilt HAT with a Pi camera for face-tracking, or mount it on top of your roving robot as a set of eyes. Ideal for a mini CCTV system, it will allow you to control the movement of your Pi camera with minimal fuss. Or why not just stick a foam sword on top and make it swashbuckle?!

There's absolutely no soldering required (unless you decide to use a NeoPixel strip or ring with it), as the servos on the pan-tilt module have female jumper wires attached and they've soldered a strip of right-angled header pins to the underside of the HAT to connect them up.

They've also included a handy little acrylic camera mount to hold your camera snugly in the head of the pan-tilt module. The mount has a couple of mounting holes at the top to hold a NeoPixel stick and there's a neat little frosted diffuser to make the light super-dreamy. You can use one of our RGBW NeoPixel sticks for a lovely pure white glow (or any other color!)

Note that the Pi camera, mini pan-tilt kit, NeoPixel strip, and Pi 3 are not included. You'll need to pick them up separately!

Features

Pan-tilt module (180 degrees motion through each axis) with two servos

HAT with two servo channels, one PWM or NeoPixel RGB (or RGBW) LED channel

Right-angled header pre-soldered to underside of HAT for servo and LED channels

Slot to route servo, LED, and camera cables through

Acrylic mount to hold Pi camera and NeoPixel strip (with diffuser) in place

Compatible with Raspberry Pi 3, 2, B+, A+, and Zero

Python library

Comes fully assembled

Get visual feedback from your Pi!The PiGlow is a small add on board for the Raspberry Pi that provides 18 individually controllable LEDs. You can use it for all sorts of things! And of course, it fits inside a Pibow!There are tons of things you can do with it:

Mood lighting / ambiance

Showing current system load

Notify you of events like mentions in tweets or incoming e-mail

Feedback the status of scripts/daemons running on your Pi

Works great when VESA mounted to provide a cast against a wall

...and pretty much anything else you can think of!

This board uses the SN3218 8-bit 18-channel PWM chip to drive 18 surface mount LEDs. Communication is done via I2C over the GPIO header with a bus address of 0x54 (Python example code provided). Each LED can be set to a PWM value of between 0 and 255. Comes fully assembled and ready to rock.

18 LEDs (three each of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and white)

Great to provide feedback if you're running your Pi headless

PWM (dimming) control for each channel

Fully assembled (no soldering required)

Python code to access and control lighting provided

Lots of example code for Python, Scratch, WiringPi, etc over at the Pimoroni page

Pimoroni PiGlow (3:55)

Propeller HAT will get you flying in the world of microcontrollers; whether you’re just learning the ropes, or using it as an integral part of your home automation project.

We’ve brought the much adored Parallax Propeller microcontroller to the Raspberry Pi in an experimentation-friendly HAT format that includes a mini breadboard for prototyping and breaks out a whole array of signals from both Pi and Propeller.

Ideal for servo twiddling, robot building, IO-expanding, VGA driving, or rockin’ to classic tunes with sound chip emulators like SIDcog. Parallax’s Object Exchange is packed with code examples and libraries: http://obex.parallax.com/

Features:

Stonkin’ 8-Core Micro handles menial IO tasks for your Pi

30 general purpose IO pins controllable by any of the 8 cores

Easy to program using the Pi-compatible Propeller IDE and SPIN language

On-board 170pt breadboard for hosting your experiments

Breaks out Pi SPI, I2C and 15 other pins

Fully open-source hardware, right down to the microcontroller!

Supplied as a kit with female headers

Supplied as a kit - Male or female headers, it's a tough choice and there's a good case for both. We've bundled Propeller HAT with a 170pt breadboard and female headers, but left them un-soldered and un-stuck so you can choose what fits you best. That does mean, however, that soldering is required!

Built around the Parallax Propeller - Propeller HAT hosts the powerful 8-core Propeller microcontroller from Parallax. It connects it to your Pi’s serial port for programming, and breaking out its 30 remaining pins for general IO use.

Fully programmable on the Pi - All the tools you need to program Propeller HAT will run on the Raspberry Pi. From Propeller IDE, the software you need to write SPIN code, to OpenSpin, the compiler, and p1load, the loader.

Python IO library - We’ve created a collection of Python IO library examples. Just import them into Python and instantly transform your Propeller HAT into a 30-pin IO expander or PWM driver.

Learn microcontroller and multi-core programming - using SPIN, the native language of the Propeller, you can learn how to make a microcontroller do your bidding. We've written step-by-step tutorials to get you acquainted with the basics.

Fully open-source - The Propeller is open source; from the tools used to program it, right down to the code describing the hardware itself: http://www.parallax.com/microcontrollers/propeller-1-open-source

Control your Raspberry Pi 3, 2, A+, B+, or Zero with a flick of the wrist! The Pimoroni Skywriter HAT senses the position of your fingers in the air above.

Using Pimoroni's Python API you can read off the positional data (x, y, z) and common gestures like flick left, tap, and double tap.

Electrical near-field 3D/gesture sensing

4-layer PCB for best sensing performance

Senses from up to 5cm away

Full 3D position data and gesture information (swipes, taps)

Comes fully assembled

Full Python API

This is compatible with the Raspberry Pi Models 3, 2, A+, B+, and Zero!

Because the sensing distance is up to 5cm you can mount the Skywriter HAT behind a sheet of non-conductive material (like acrylic or fabrics) and completely hide it inside your project.

Snap the Pimoroni Unicorn Hat on top of a Raspberry Pi model A+ or a model B+ for a fun 8x8 RGB LED matrix powered directly from the Pi.

Unicorn HAT provides a wash of controllable color that is ideal for mood-lighting, 8x8 pixel art, persistence of vision effects, status indications, or just blasting colour into your surroundings.

64 RGB LEDs (WS2812B) each wtih 24-bit RGB color

Python API (NeoPixel compatible!)

EEPROM with Raspberry Pi HAT configuration details

LED data driven via DMA over PWM Pin #18