{"id":10036,"date":"2014-06-12T09:25:25","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T09:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/178.62.14.192\/?p=10036"},"modified":"2014-06-12T09:25:25","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T09:25:25","slug":"simple-gpio-board-for-teaching-soldering-and-using-your-raspberrypi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10036","title":{"rendered":"Simple GPIO board for teaching soldering and using your #RaspberryPi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/s3.amazonaws.com\/ksr\/projects\/1034830\/photo-main.jpg?resize=560%2C420&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Paul Brown has just launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise money for his MyPiFi LED board for the Pi. It&#8217;s a very simple board that requires self-assembly (including soldering) of the through-hole components. It looks very simple to put together and is clearly aimed at beginners who want to learn some new skills.<\/p>\n<p>Prices start at \u00a35 for the board kit and are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1059145052\/mypifi-led-board\">available on the Kickstarter page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Brown has just launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise money for his MyPiFi LED board for the Pi. It&#8217;s a very simple board that requires self-assembly (including soldering) of the through-hole components. It looks very simple to put together&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10036\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crowdfunding","category-gpio-boards"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Simple GPIO board for teaching soldering and using your #RaspberryPi - Raspberry Pi Pod<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10036\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Simple GPIO board for teaching soldering and using your #RaspberryPi - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Paul Brown has just launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise money for his MyPiFi LED board for the Pi. 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