is the Pibrella no longer for sale? Sounds like it was a great little add-on to learn some basic programming without messing around with breadboards?
any particular reason is it no longer listed in the pimoroni shop, temporary or permanent situation?
anyhow, I was looking to pick up an intro kit Pi A+ with Pibrella for a nephew imminently, is it worth hunting down one or are there issues with the latest Raspbian I should be aware of… as far as I can tell it is listed as compatible with the Pi 2, so I assume that the DT won’t cause too much trouble?
Jon mentioned a week or so back that Cyntech are doing a run of them at the moment. Here’s the post: Pibrella availability They still seem to be out of stock though. But you should totally get an Explorer HAT!
I’m not sure, it seems to be a DIY solution and I’m interested to get my nephew programming with scratch, I think based on hs interest he’ll have no motivation messing about with resitors and other electronics.
There are DIY bits too but also 4 leds and 4 capacative touch buttons already on board vs the 3 leds and 1 button on the Pibrella. The Pibrella has a buzzer too (but at least on mine) it wasn’t that great!
My only issue with the explore hat buttons is that my fingers are a bit big and sometimes I press 2.
ah, I see, I thought the Explorer was just a breadboard mapped to the GPIO, with additional input/outputs. Yes, it seems that apart from the piezo speaker it provides the same potential out of the box.
… I guess that is why Pimoroni stopped carrying it, it’s basically an Explorer Hat, fair enough. I’ll research it more, but the Pibrella just looks more like a toy and less like a hacker field, but that is the whole point for me.
I know what you mean, I got my Pibrella literally the week before the explorer came out and I was frustrated briefly but they are a little different (and the 'brella works on an old pie too).
I like minimalist interfaces and its fun to see just what you can do with one button and some LEDs!