The Pi-Stop is a low-cost hardware module designed to allow Raspberry Pi users to take their first steps into interfacing with the real world.
Designed with the learning in mind, everyone will recognise and identify its familiar elements encouraging their use along-side their own projects.
Easy entry into coding
The Pi-Stop is designed to remove many of the common hurdles people are faced with when getting started using hardware with the Raspberry Pi. Often it is difficult to know what components to use and how to connect them, the Pi-Stop makes it simple by plugging directly onto pre-set positions on the Raspberry GPIO connector.
The Pi-Stop provides a simple stepping stone, between pure screen-based programming and using physical hardware to interact with the real world. Components like the Pi-Stop will provide a flexible and non-restrictive way to build understanding through experimenting.
By keeping the hardware very simple, it allows better understanding of what is happening, and allows space to come up with your own projects and apply the concepts with your own ideas in mind.
Simple hardware
By plugging the Pi-Stop directly on to the Raspberry Pi GPIO header, no extra cables or wires are needed. Unlike many other add-on boards, they do not block unused GPIO pins, keeping them open for other uses. The Pi-Stop can be fitted in 4 standard locations, allowing up to four Pi-Stops to be controlled independently or combined with other hardware.
When used with optional stands, they can be used away from the GPIO header and even daisy-chained to make up full traffic light sets.
Resources
These materials will demonstrate the concepts, methods and provide the building blocks to explore ideas and take learning further by with creative projects, activities and games:
