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pin:bit breaks out the useful pins from your micro:bit into a breadboard-friendly format, with clear labels to help keep your builds tidy and easy to follow....
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pin:bit breaks out the useful pins from your micro:bit into a breadboard-friendly format, with clear labels to help keep your builds tidy and easy to follow.
It is ideal for building small circuits on a breadboard and exploring components such as LEDs, buttons and analogue sensors. Just slot in your micro:bit, then connect to its pins using a breadboard or jumper wires.
The board breaks out every spare micro:bit pin that is not shared with the LED matrix, so your projects can avoid interfering with the built-in display functionality. It comes fully assembled and ready to use, with no soldering required.
Features:
- Comes fully assembled and ready to use
- 3V and GND pins exposed
- Analogue channels 0, 1, and 2 exposed; these are the large pads on your micro:bit
- I2C bus interface exposed
- SPI bus interface exposed
- GPIO pins 0, 1, 2, 5, 8, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 19, and 20 exposed
- Plugs straight into your breadboard
- Compatible with micro:bit
- No soldering required
A handy breakout for classrooms, workshops and quick micro:bit prototyping with breadboards, jumper wires and small electronic components.
Jargon buster
Plain-language definitions for the technical terms used above.
- breakout
- A breakout board carries a small or fine-pitched component and brings its connections out to standard, breadboard- and header-friendly pins. Describing a part as a breakout means it can be wired into a project without soldering directly to the component's tiny contacts.
- GND
- GND is the ground or reference connection (0 V) for a circuit. When connecting two devices together, their grounds must be joined so both agree on what counts as a low or high signal.
- GPIO
- General-purpose input/output pins are microcontroller pins you can set in software to read signals, switch devices on and off, or connect to peripherals. The number of GPIO pins matters because it limits how many buttons, LEDs, sensors, and other parts you can wire directly to the board.
- I2C
- I2C is a two-wire communication bus used by many sensors and small modules. It matters because several I2C devices can share the same two wires, but each device needs a compatible address and your controller must support I2C.
- LED
- A light-emitting diode (LED) is a small electronic component that emits light when current flows through it in the correct direction. Because it only conducts one way, its polarity matters, and a through-hole LED must be soldered the correct way around to light up.
- SPI
- A fast serial communication bus often used for displays, memory cards, and sensors. It matters because SPI devices need specific pins for clock and data, plus a separate chip-select line for each device.
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