Pimoroni Breakout Garden Mini (I2C + SPI)

The Pimoroni Breakout Garden Mini (I2C + SPI) offers the easiest way to use Pimoroni breakouts with your Raspberry Pi. There’s no soldering required, just pop up to three Pimoroni breakouts (2xI2C, 1xSPI) into the slots on Breakout Garden Mini and get started coding and creating.

Grow your projects with the Breakout Garden. It’s ideal for prototyping projects without the need for complicated wiring, soldering, or breadboards, and you’ve always got the option of changing your setup thanks to the way that Breakout Garden works.

The three sturdy slots on Breakout Garden are edge connectors that connect Pimoroni breakouts to the pins on your Raspberry Pi. It’s also got two I2C slots for Pimoroni I2C breakouts. Because I2C is a bus, you can use multiple I2C devices at the same time, providing they don’t have the same address (all of the Pimironi breakouts have different addresses).

In use: 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, Antony!”

SPI is a faster, higher-throughput protocol for talking to devices like displays. The SPI slot on Breakout Garden Mini uses chip select 1 (BCM 7) and BCM 19 for the GPIO pin (used for things like LCD backlights).

There is built-in reverse polarity protection in the Pimoroni breakouts, meaning you don’t let out the magic smoke if you accidentally plug one in the wrong way around. 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.

Lots of useful pins have been broken out along the top of Breakout Garden Mini, so you can connect other devices and integrate them into your Breakout Garden projects. 

Features:

• Three sturdy edge-connector slots for Pimoroni breakouts.
• 2x I2C slots (5 pins).
• 1x SPI slot (7 pins).
• 0.1” pitch, 5 or 7 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.

Contents:

• 1 x Pimoroni Breakout Garden Mini (I2C + SPI).

Requires:

• Raspberry Pi
• Suitable breakouts, such as;
• 1.3″ SPI Colour Round LCD (240×240) Breakout.
• 1.3″ SPi colour square LCD 240×240 breakout.
• BME688 4-in-1 air q breakout.
• PA1010D GPS Breakout.

Resources:

• Breakout Garden GitHub repo.
• Example setups.