{"id":11719,"date":"2015-01-02T22:39:41","date_gmt":"2015-01-02T22:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11719"},"modified":"2015-01-02T22:40:53","modified_gmt":"2015-01-02T22:40:53","slug":"new-prototyping-board-for-the-raspberry-pi-b-and-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11719","title":{"rendered":"New prototyping board for the Raspberry Pi B+ and A+"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-XUNavj7laOk\/VKV6LUV1j0I\/AAAAAAAAFyU\/U_9jHvFZkTE\/s1600\/BPlusFace.png?resize=560%2C420\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Richard Saville (aka The Average Man) has created a new prototyping board for use with the A+\/B+. It&#8217;s called the ProtoPal and it plugs into the 40-pin +-sized\u00a0GPIO pins. It has plenty of prototyping space and has two long power rails running\u00a0along the centre of the board.\u00a0Richard has designed the board to give you the maximum amount of prototyping space so it doesn&#8217;t use the 4 mounting holes of the A+\/B+. Instead it has one hole through which you can push a spacer which helps further balance the board. I&#8217;ve got one ready to have a play with so expect to hear more about the ProtoPal soon. You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.averagemanvsraspberrypi.com\/2015\/01\/ProtoPal.html\" target=\"_blank\">read more about the board on Richard&#8217;s blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You see a video about the board below and you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebay.co.uk\/itm\/ProtoPal-Raspberry-Pi-A-B-Prototyping-Board-\/201254536463?\" target=\"_blank\">buy it from eBay (\u00a34.99)<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tindie.com\/products\/averagemanvspi\/protopal-raspberry-pi-a-b-prototyping-board\/\" target=\"_blank\">from Tindie ($8)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ProtoPal Raspberry Pi Prototyping Board\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mnk4b9-ODYo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Saville (aka The Average Man) has created a new prototyping board for use with the A+\/B+. It&#8217;s called the ProtoPal and it plugs into the 40-pin +-sized\u00a0GPIO pins. It has plenty of prototyping space and has two long power&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11719\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[54,22,20,50,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessories","category-geeky-techiness","category-gpio-boards","category-making","category-rpi-shopping"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>New prototyping board for the Raspberry Pi B+ and A+ - 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=11719\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New prototyping board for the Raspberry Pi B+ and A+ - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Richard Saville (aka The Average Man) has created a new prototyping board for use with the A+\/B+. 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