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Slice of pi - add on for Raspberry PI

£3.90 (inc VAT) £3.25 (exc VAT)
( 11 product reviews )
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K000
Brand:
Ciseco
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Product description

The Slice of Pi is a convienient 3 in 1 product. In addition to being a small break out board for the Raspberry PI pins, it has also a socket for a wireless module and a small prototyping area.

  • XBee style connector for XRF / XBee / RN-XV etc (the easiest way to add wireless to you Pi)
  • SPI and I2C pins to a standard 2.54mm pitch 8 way header (fast and easy access)
  • GPIO pins to a standard 2.54mm pitch 8 way header (fast and easy access)
  • Construction is very easy (suitable even for children with basic soldering skills)
  • Featured in popular publications (good base of knowledge around the board)
  • Easy to connect to 3v3, 5v0, GND, RX & TX (solder pads give fast access)
  • Available worldwide (many people now stock the board)

Features:

  • Gold plated finish (Protection against oxidization means your device will outlast normal HASL boards)
  • Comes as a complete "self solder" kit of parts
  • Upto 50ma at 3.3v can be drawn by the project or radio (do not exceed 50ma)
  • Has a pad to connect the XBee shaped device's SLEEP pin (pin 9)
  • Can support OTAMP (over the air micro programming) to another XRF family device that supports it (requires modification to AVR dude files)
  • Can be used to upload firmware to the XRF
  • Made in the UK

Technical data

Dimensions: 35.5mm x 51.5mm x 18.6mm

Downloads

There are no downloads at present

Documentation

Instant get started guide

Build document

Getting started with Raspberry Pi GPIO and Python

Raspberry Pi GPIO Inputs in Python

Uploading firmware from a Pi

Projects

A review of the board - http://www.doctormonk.com/2012/08/review-of-raspberry-pi-prototyping.html

http://elinux.org/RPi_Expansion_Boards#Slice_of_Pi

http://www.doctormonk.com/2012/05/gpio-led-blink-from-python-using-slice.html

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=h4odLCArZAEC&pg=PA210&lpg=PA210&dq=slice+of+pi+board&source=bl&ots=FIDgIcbYOg&sig=YuqujxODB0w5T0bgpySS854Ulc8&hl=en&sa=X&ei=IYVAUe6mPI_R4QTr1oDYCA&ved=0CEQQ6AEwAzgK#v=onepage&q=slice%20of%20pi%20board&f=false

http://blog.thiseldo.co.uk/?p=689

Related or associated products

The XRF radio - http://shop.ciseco.co.uk/xrf-wireless-rf-radio-uart-rs232-serial-data-module-xbee-shape-arduino-pic-etc/

Also available from

UK - CPC Farnell - Hobbytronics - Maplin Electronics - ModMyPi - The Pi Hut - Rapid Electronics

Australia - Core Electronics

Canada - ABRA Electronics

Slovakia - RLX Components

USA - ACME unlimited - MCM electronics - Newark

Really important note from us

Make an informed purchase

We strongly recommend you read all about this item before purchase. Our products are intended for people who love the challenge of being part of making things. Some items are easy to use and some are not, please make your decision to buy based on what you see combined with your own experience levels. Please don't rush in, if you need to ask questions, please do on our forum at Openmicros.org

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  1. Useful tool

    Posted by Unknown on 12th Dec 2012

    Good, quick delivery.
    Assembled it and plugged in Xbee. It would have been nice to have a stack-able header and a 3 way header for the supply pins.

  2. Good starter breadboard.

    Posted by Brian on 1st Oct 2012

    Does what it says on the tin. Would also like one with screw connectors for the signal connection for connecting in signal cables etc.

    Fast delivery. Good price. More breadboard products please.

  3. Nice!

    Posted by Kalmár-Nagy András on 19th Sep 2012

    Arrived very quickly, and in one piece (I mean six).

    If I had to nitpick: It would be great if you could include a header for the power pins.

    Good quality, waiting for time and soldering iron to assemble. :)

    UPDATE: Seems Dr Monk used some in his blog post, our kit does not include them because we leave the choice upto you to make. We often use battery snaps for example.

  4. Great Kit

    Posted by Mart on 10th Sep 2012

    Reasonably priced and invaluable if you want to mount an XRF or similar. Very quick indeed to assemble.

    Only one tiny gripe. The board review link on the product description page shows the product with an extra header. Whilst I didnt need this, it cost me some time trying to work out if a part had been lost or omitted. The description page could make this clearer.

  5. Raspberry PI Accessories

    Posted by Norman Pomfret on 13th Aug 2012

    A helpful and useful accessory to aid my progress in understanding not just the PI but in adding functions and facilities to this PC.

    The shopping experience was effective and provided with prompt delivery

  6. Super fast delivery to USA

    Posted by Jim in Massachusetts on 31st Jul 2012

    I'm writing to highly recommend this company, and the Slice of Pi too of course. I ordered it on Friday and had it by Monday's mail. Absolutely astounded by the no fuss transaction. Haven't put it together yet, but it's perfect to just get some projects going with. Will protect my GPIO pins and make projects a ton easier. I will definitely be looking to ciseco again for parts and whatnot. More Pi stuff please. Thanks!

  7. An excellent little bit of kit

    Posted by Rachel Wood on 25th Jul 2012

    Couple this with a dil socket, an MP 16 port expander chip, a few link wires and soldering skills and you have a nice little safe interface board which should stop you every frying your Pi

  8. A good little addition

    Posted by Ben on 11th Jul 2012

    Easy to put together, makes accessing the GPIO header quite a lot easier and gives a good board to start attaching things to.

  9. Excellent as an XBee interface or for general prototyping

    Posted by Fanjita on 13th Jun 2012

    I bought one of these initially to play with interfacing XBee modules easily to my Raspberry Pi.

    But I've since been using it as a generic prototyping 'shield' for the Pi, interfacing a motor controller to the GPIO pins to produce a very compact motor interface for my robot platform (see http://fanjita.org/ for some details).

    I liked it so much, I ordered another one to keep in my parts drawer as I'm sure to want to use it again for another project. And if you're not actually using the supplied headers to connect anything, you could piggy back two of these boards fairly easily by supplying your own stackable headers.

    One last thing - it's not obvious, but you also get space to add a 3-pin header of your own to break out the 3.3V, 5V and 0V connections.

  10. break out board

    Posted by Arlie D on 13th Jun 2012

    was delivered as advertised. Fast delivery from UK to USA. not done anything with it yet but I am sure it will do what I want.

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