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Let us know how you get on!
I also passed it along to some contacts in the DC government. I told them this is exactly the kind of stuff they should deploy all over the city to get air quality, and just try it out since it's cheap enough to experiment with!
I don't know anything about Pis, though I've seen one. How does this attach? Does it require soldering?
yes/no. it's sized to match the Pi Zero, which by default comes with no headers - so to add this board you'd need to add headers. But many vendors (including OP) offer them pre-soldered, which makes the hardware side "plug the top bit into the bottom bit". (The zero is positioned as the "barest of bare-bones" to reach its price-point. Many vendors look for value-adds they can offer because there's not much margin on…
The Pi Zero comes in three flavours - the Pi Zero WH includes a pre-soldered header. :-)
Is the alignment of the connector pads along the edge of the card deliberately not straight?
Example being, the Touch pHAT (very good board btw) doesn’t use interrupts and library is sorta messy. I still use it though, because it’s not a big deal — however it’d be nice to be able to take full advantage of the components used in the boards. I guess my rant is mostly about not having access to some schematics of the products.
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yes/no. it's sized to match the Pi Zero, which by default comes with no headers - so to add this board you'd need to add headers. But many vendors (including OP) offer them pre-soldered, which makes the hardware side "plug the top bit into the bottom bit". (The zero is positioned as the "barest of bare-bones" to reach its price-point. Many vendors look for value-adds they can offer because there's not much margin on…
This product works with any model of Raspberry Pi - it doesn't have to be a Pi Zero! The Pi Zero comes in three flavours - the Pi Zero WH includes a pre-soldered header. :-)
Anyway, I should stress it wasn't a criticism - just that if that's their biggest question, they'd probably benefit from being able to tell the bare & WH boards apart.
I love Pimoroni Modules, having used the MicroDot pHAT, Unicorn boards, Touch pHAT, (and several more). The only problem I have is that the libraries aren’t particularly well written. Of course they’re open source and I would like to improve them, but as far as I know there are no schematics available. Example being, the Touch pHAT (very good board btw) doesn’t use interrupts and library is sorta messy. I still use i…
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Sometimes a full Linux stack is a blessing but I totally understand where you're coming from. :-)
It's just that I keep finding cool hats/phats like this that feel that way. :) I'm wondering about the possibility of building a high latency Kubernetes cluster to make use of the excess compute of some of the Raspberry Pis. The HomelabOS project https://gitlab.com/NickBusey/HomelabOS is something I have been looking at. It would be neat if I could use a handful of Pis across the house wasting cycles for something li…
Very similar to Pioneer600, an expansion board for Raspberry Pi. https://www.waveshare.com/pioneer600.htm