{"id":14791,"date":"2016-05-24T10:30:57","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T09:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=14791"},"modified":"2016-05-24T09:19:49","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T08:19:49","slug":"read-analog-sensors-on-the-raspberry-pi-with-the-analog-zero-kickstarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=14791","title":{"rendered":"Read analog sensors on the Raspberry Pi with the Analog Zero &#8211; Kickstarter!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/analog_zero.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14792\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/analog_zero.jpg?resize=560%2C296&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"analog_zero\" width=\"560\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/analog_zero.jpg?w=679&amp;ssl=1 679w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/analog_zero.jpg?resize=300%2C159&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/analog_zero.jpg?resize=560%2C296&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/analog_zero.jpg?resize=260%2C137&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/analog_zero.jpg?resize=160%2C85&amp;ssl=1 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A couple of weeks ago, I received from <a href=\"http:\/\/raspi.tv\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Eames<\/a> a new board he&#8217;d been working on called the <strong>Analog Zero<\/strong>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=14709\" target=\"_blank\">I blogged about it then<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0have continued to think about it and I really believe it&#8217;s the <strong>best solution currently\u00a0out there for reading lots of analog inputs<\/strong>. It gives you everything you need to read the inputs without the\u00a0fairly intricate wiring you need to do with an analog-to-digital converter chip. It works brilliantly, in particular with <a href=\"http:\/\/gpiozero.readthedocs.io\" target=\"_blank\">GPIO Zero<\/a>, and really is simple to get going.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alex has now launched a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/raspitv\/raspio-analog-zero-read-8-sensors-at-once-on-raspb?ref=recantha\" target=\"_blank\">Kickstarter<\/a><\/strong> to develop the board into full production. You can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/raspitv\/raspio-analog-zero-read-8-sensors-at-once-on-raspb?ref=recantha\" target=\"_blank\">get hold of an Analog Zero<\/a> for \u00a37 (super early-bird), \u00a38 (early-bird) or \u00a39 (standard) (plus cheap postage).\u00a0<strong>Be aware that this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/raspitv\/raspio-analog-zero-read-8-sensors-at-once-on-raspb?ref=recantha\" target=\"_blank\">campaign<\/a> is running for 7 days\u00a0<em>only<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>so pledge sooner rather than later!<\/p>\n<p>This is really terrific value for the board which gives you eight analog inputs, a small prototyping area and all the other pins broken out, all in a Raspberry Pi Zero form-factor. <strong>The board works on all models of the\u00a0Raspberry Pi<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to pledge to get hold of one or more of the Analog Zero, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/raspitv\/raspio-analog-zero-read-8-sensors-at-once-on-raspb?ref=recantha\" target=\"_blank\">head over to Kickstarter<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago, I received from Alex Eames a new board he&#8217;d been working on called the Analog Zero. I blogged about it then\u00a0and\u00a0have continued to think about it and I really believe it&#8217;s the best solution currently\u00a0out&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=14791\">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":[13,20,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crowdfunding","category-gpio-boards","category-sensors"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Read analog sensors on the Raspberry Pi with the Analog Zero - Kickstarter! - 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=14791\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Read analog sensors on the Raspberry Pi with the Analog Zero - Kickstarter! - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A couple of weeks ago, I received from Alex Eames a new board he&#8217;d been working on called the Analog Zero. 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