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Ala Mode: Arduino Compatible for Raspberry Pi

e14 Contributor

We've gotten our first prototypes back and they are working well.

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There's a complete writeup on my blog:

http://baldwisdom.com/introducing-raspb ... a-la-mode/


Flexible power. Can be powered directly from the Pi, standalone with a battery or wall-wart, or USB power. This is important if your shield takes more power than the Pi can provide or if you want to undock it for standalone operation.

Programmable via the Pi’s UART on the GPIO pins, or an FTDI USB-Serial adapter or ISP.

Header for connecting Fastrax UP501 GPS.

DS3234 Real time Clock. The Pi doesn’t have it’s own battery backed RTC. You can set a program in the AlaMode to report the time to the Pi via serial or I2C

Micro-SD card slot. Useful for datalogging, and big-memory for your Arduino applications

Row of Servo Headers connected to the PWM pins with a configurable power and ground rail

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  • in reply to fustini

    I cant wait for this to hit the market.  Does anyone know when they expect to start shipping these?

  • in reply to Nate1616

    The blog states: "We’re in limited Beta right now, but as soon as it’s thoroughly tested, we hope to produce them for sale as soon as we can!"

     

    Hopefully it all works out!

     

    BTW, video description of it from Adafruit's Show & Tell (jump to 22:20):

  • in reply to Nate1616

    I can't give you an exact date yet, but I'm shooting for Octoberish.... I'm getting my second round of boards with minor corrections/enhancements this week.

  • in reply to e14 Contributor

    Look forward to seeing it on a future Show & Tell image

  • in reply to fustini

    I was excited to see the Alamode at Maker Faire!  Here's a post I just wrote about it on the Raspberry Pi group blog: http://www.element14.com/community/groups/raspberry-pi/blog/2012/10/05/yum-raspberry-pi-a-la-mode-with-an-arduino-on-top

  • in reply to fustini

    Thanks Drew! It was great to meet you. Latest word is that it will be available at the end of October.