Father-and-son team Martin and Matthew Brabham have worked together to build a GPIO board for the Pi. The Matboard features 4 LEDs, 4 buttons, 4 relays, a darlington pair transistor buffer to drive the relays and buffer the inputs and a prototyping area. It’s their hope that it will inspire people to pick up their Pis and get making! You can get a kit with all the parts to solder together yourself for £21 (rising to £24 post-earlybird) or a pre-soldered one for £29. Read more and support this great family project on Kickstarter.
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The more of these boards I see the more confused I get. I don’t want to paint myself into a corner. I want something that goes beyond the ubiquitous flying LEDs, but I don’t want something where I need a HND in electronics to get the most from it. In the end I shall just plump for something. (At least I don’t have to worry about Python!)
There comes a point with any of these boards that you have to learn some electronics to get the most out of things. Even with something simple like the Pibrella you eventually need to learn about resistance and how to drive motors. The Matboard is a little more complicated than some, not as complicated as others (take the Gertboard for example – it’s way simpler than that). As for not worrying about Python, what _are_ you using instead? Scratch?