{"id":8747,"date":"2014-03-15T09:31:07","date_gmt":"2014-03-15T09:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/178.62.14.192\/?p=8747"},"modified":"2014-03-15T09:31:07","modified_gmt":"2014-03-15T09:31:07","slug":"add-an-arduino-to-your-raspberrypi-using-the-pi-co-op","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8747","title":{"rendered":"Add an #Arduino to your #RaspberryPi using the Pi Co-Op"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dawn Robotics have created a new board for the Pi. It’s actually been out since January but they’ve just started to market the product, and what a product it is. In fact, if you’ve ever wanted to explore the world of Arduino and connecting one to the Pi, you’re probably not going to find a simpler way of doing it.<\/p>\n

It’s a GPIO plug-in board that houses an ATmega328p chip and a load of female headers. They’ve added the Arduino Uno bootloader to make it easy to program. The Pi communicates with the chip over UART (serial) and you can use a library called pyMata<\/a>\u00a0to control the analog inputs and digital inputs and outputs. You can read some summarised information about the board, including how to use it, on their blog here<\/a>\u00a0and you can read a full manual for it here<\/a>. The board includes 8 analog inputs and it’s the easiest, most compact solution I’ve seen for reading analog sensors.<\/p>\n

The board comes to just under \u00a319 delivered which makes it cheaper than most, if not all, similar Arduino solutions available (such as the Gertboard and the Gertduino).<\/p>\n

You can buy a Pi Co-Op here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Here’s a video:<\/p>\n