GPIO access without soldering?

simonjewell

February 14, 2015 12:16

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I was wondering if I could use something like this:

http://www.element14.com/community/docs/DOC-68908/l/piface-shim-gpio-duplication-board-for-raspberry-pi

to allow easy access to the GPIO pins without needing to solder on any headers to the Amp+ board? So I can use things like a rotary encoder for volume control.

Thanks.

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HiFiBerry team February 15, 2015 09:13

Hi,

I'm not sure how this connects to the Raspberry Pi. Will it be soldered to the existing header on the Raspberry Pi?

Best regards
Daniel

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simonjewell February 15, 2015 13:14

Yeah, I'm not sure either :) If it works like their RTC board, I think it just fits over the GPIO pins, so you can still use any HAT boards. There is a good picture of the RTC board here:
http://www.piface.org.uk/products/piface_clock/

hsmeets February 21, 2015 09:26

Hi,

for my project (using the AMP+) I would also like to access the GPIO, I was thinking about having made a small and thin PCB similar to the one on the Ele14 website to sit between the RPi and Amp+ connector and probably use some washers or larger standoff to mount the Amp+ on the RPi to compensate for the thickness of the inserted GPIO breakout PCB.

Many of those far-east PCB manufacturers can make PCB's as thin as 0,8 and 1mm for no or only a little markup in costs compared to the normal thickness used like 1.5 or 1.6mm. And if you can wait a few weeks on delivery (bcause of sipping method) it is dirt-cheap.

Regards,

Huib

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