I am a newbie to this forum and am planning to build a simple signalling device using the Blinkt! 8-element LED display strip and a series of momentary rocker switches. Both the Blinkt! and GPIO breakout cable need to plug into the GPIO connector with the Blinkt! on top of the connection stack for viewing.
There’s got to a simple way to do this so I can communicate with the Blinkt! for display and the GPIO breadboard breakout cable for the switch inputs without damaging anything, but I can’t find a simple solution.
Many thanks for your prompt and detailed reply. This is my first project with a soon-to-be-purchased Raspberry PI 3B+. This looks to be the exact solution I was seeking.
This is a very positive experience for my first-time appearance on this forum.
Thankyou very much, glad to have helped. My Pi build pictures are here, https://1drv.ms/f/s!AjOYwiwlwDtpgUMsp2qnevKpGEHb
The weather clocks, pirate radio and rovers use proto pHats and proto Hats to connect all kinds of external bits. Real Time clocks and all manner of i2c devices.
I like to use 90 degree male headers on the proto boards then connect female to female jumper wires from there to a male header on whatever I’m connecting. makes for easy disassemble when trouble shooting or upgrading things.
Many thanks for the additional information in your reply. I am continuing to research how to implement my project across several networked Raspberry Pi 3B+ machines.