Maplin is now stocking (online only, I think) a nifty little GPIO breakout board with push terminals. They say that it’s similar to the Pi Cobbler (which looks-wise it isn’t but functionality wise, I suppose it is… a bit). The good news is that it’s only £5.99 which is cheaper than I’ve seen elsewhere for the same (or similar) products. Visit the Maplin website here
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I have this board. The problem that I have with it is relating the pinout code on the device to the bits that I do know which is the pin that I want to use and its GPIO-BCM number.
For instance pin 11 is GPIO 17 is what on this board. I thought that it was CE1 until I found three pins labelled CE1. Not very user friendly.
As an Electronics Engineer, this is one of the worst elements of the R-Pi – the pin labelling.
I agree that pin labelling can be very confusing! I prefer the BCM numbering system, personally.
Once I realized that P17, P22, P23 etc referred to BCM code GPIO-17 etc, I understood the labelling and am now happy with it.
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