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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://community.element14.com/cfs-file/__key/system/syndication/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"><channel><title>Raspberry Pi Plays Really Well with Others - Top 10 Best Friends</title><link>https://community.element14.com/products/raspberry-pi/w/documents/1417/raspberry-pi-plays-really-well-with-others---top-10-best-friends</link><description /><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>Telligent Community 12</generator><item><title>Raspberry Pi Plays Really Well with Others - Top 10 Best Friends</title><link>https://community.element14.com/products/raspberry-pi/w/documents/1417/raspberry-pi-plays-really-well-with-others---top-10-best-friends</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2021 20:51:03 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:f7cb5e3b-872e-4da6-a43c-f9a2a8fc6e6c</guid><dc:creator>jwatson</dc:creator><comments>https://community.element14.com/products/raspberry-pi/w/documents/1417/raspberry-pi-plays-really-well-with-others---top-10-best-friends#comments</comments><description>Current Revision posted to Documents by jwatson on 5/10/2021 8:51:03 PM&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0;font-size:14pt;color:#007fac;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Friend or Foe - let&amp;#39;s just talk about friends...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin:0;padding-top:8px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Have you ever wondered what other components and software work well with Raspberry Pi?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin:0;padding-top:8px;"&gt;Well, in short, probably most things, but to advertise the fact that this truly selfless board is happy to work with other well known parts, we decided to give a shout out to its best known friends it relishes hosting!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin:0;padding:0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border:1px solid #007fac;" width="100%"&gt;&lt;thead&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;th style="border:1px solid #007fac;padding:6pt;color:#fff;background-color:#007fac;"&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;th style="border:1px solid #007fac;padding:6pt;color:#fff;background-color:#007fac;"&gt;Product Description&lt;/th&gt;&lt;th style="border:1px solid #007fac;padding:6pt;color:#fff;background-color:#007fac;" width="40%"&gt;Instructions&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/thead&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="border:1px solid #007fac;vertical-align:top;padding:6pt;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.element14.com/community/resources/statics/321251/aruno_sm.png"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="https://community.element14.com/resized-image/__size/300x50/__key/communityserver-wikis-components-files/00-00-00-01-69/8132.contentimage_5F00_67844.png"&gt;&lt;img alt="image" src="https://community-storage.element14.com/communityserver-components-secureimagefileviewer/communityserver/wikis/components/files/00/00/00/01/69/8132.contentimage_67844.png-300x50.png?sv=2016-05-31&amp;amp;sr=b&amp;amp;sig=cRA8kZzvETqJS2lAIYhJHhHIpGuFjSHKxOA8HigFQ9A%3D&amp;amp;se=2026-08-16T23%3A59%3A59Z&amp;amp;sp=r&amp;amp;_=nvL8R72/pvt1pb0qB9mUTg==" style="max-height: 50px;max-width: 300px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="border:1px solid #007fac;vertical-align:top;padding:6pt;"&gt;&lt;p style="margin:0;color:#007fac;font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:4px;"&gt;Arduino Leonardo / Uno&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;The Pi can communicate with the board to enable realtime actions, additional inputs and other functionality.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="border:1px solid #007fac;vertical-align:top;padding:6pt;"&gt;&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a class="" href="https://www.element14.com/community/groups/stemacademy/blog/2015/01/28/connecting-arduino-to-raspberry-pi-conclusion-and-reflections?ICID=piaccsy-playswell-doc"&gt;View the Connecting an Arduino to a Raspberry Pi Project&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="border:1px solid #007fac;vertical-align:top;padding:6pt;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.element14.com/community/resources/statics/321251/cadsoft_sm.png"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="https://community.element14.com/resized-image/__size/300x50/__key/communityserver-wikis-components-files/00-00-00-01-69/1351.contentimage_5F00_67845.png"&gt;&lt;img loading="lazy" alt="image" src="https://community-storage.element14.com/communityserver-components-secureimagefileviewer/communityserver/wikis/components/files/00/00/00/01/69/1351.contentimage_67845.png-300x50.png?sv=2016-05-31&amp;amp;sr=b&amp;amp;sig=a7DMnQxEGB8aQS2xp5Vff1g113RTUe9bK%2FnnUxIAbfw%3D&amp;amp;se=2026-08-16T23%3A59%3A59Z&amp;amp;sp=r&amp;amp;_=e675Qc/p2LcOMzFaT9NydA==" style="max-height: 50px;max-width: 300px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="border:1px solid #007fac;vertical-align:top;padding:6pt;"&gt;&lt;p style="margin:0;color:#007fac;font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:4px;"&gt;CadSoft Eagle&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;There are Raspberry Pi CadSoft libraries for the Pi and Compute, along with the ability to design add on boards.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="border:1px solid #007fac;vertical-align:top;padding:6pt;"&gt;&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a class="jive-link-wiki-small" href="/products/eagle/w/documents/19242/the-raspberry-pi-2-cadsoft-library"&gt;View the Raspberry Pi 2 CadSoft Library&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin:0;padding-top:3px;"&gt;&lt;a class="jive-link-wiki-small" href="/products/eagle/w/documents/17230/the-element14-raspberry-pi-compute-module-development-kit-cadsoft-library"&gt;View the Raspberry Pi Compute Module Development Kit CadSoft Library&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin:0;padding-top:3px;"&gt;&lt;a class="jive-link-wiki-small" href="/products/eagle/w/documents/1026/raspberry-pi-2-eagle-project"&gt;View the Pi HAT Project (Pi 2 + Eagle)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="border:1px solid #007fac;vertical-align:top;padding:6pt;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.element14.com/community/resources/statics/321251/chipkit.png"&gt;&lt;img loading="lazy" alt="image" class="migration-embeded-object" src="#https://www.element14.com/community/resources/statics/321251/chipkit.png"  /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="border:1px solid #007fac;vertical-align:top;padding:6pt;"&gt;&lt;p style="margin:0;color:#007fac;font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:4px;"&gt;chipKIT&lt;img loading="lazy" alt="image" class="migration-embeded-object" src="#https://www.element14.com/community//files1.element14.com/community/9.0.5.998b920/images/emojis/2122.png"  /&gt; Pi&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;The world&amp;#39;s first to enable the development of 3.3V Arduino compatible applications for the Raspberry Pi using a 32bit, high performance PIC32 MCU in a prototyping friendly package.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="border:1px solid #007fac;vertical-align:top;padding:6pt;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="border:1px solid #007fac;vertical-align:top;padding:6pt;"&gt;&lt;a href="/e14/assets/legacy/raspberrypi/cirrus_accessImage.jpg"&gt;&lt;img loading="lazy" alt="image" height="50" src="/e14/assets/legacy/raspberrypi/cirrus_accessImage.jpg"  /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="border:1px solid #007fac;vertical-align:top;padding:6pt;"&gt;&lt;p style="margin:0;color:#007fac;font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:4px;"&gt;Cirrus Logic Audio Card&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;Adds high quality audio recording, and playback to the Pi.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="border:1px solid #007fac;vertical-align:top;padding:6pt;"&gt;&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a class="" href="https://www.element14.com/community/community/raspberry-pi/raspberry-pi-accessories/cirrus_logic_audio_card?ICID=piaccsy-playswell-doc"&gt;Learn More&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin:0;padding-top:3px;"&gt;&lt;a class="jive-link-thread-small" href="https://www.element14.com/community/thread/48595/l/my-success-with-the-cirrus-logic-audio-card?ICID=piaccsy-playswell-doc"&gt;View Outdoor Audio Recorder Project&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="border:1px solid #007fac;vertical-align:top;padding:6pt;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.element14.com/community/resources/statics/321251/codebug_sm.png"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="https://community.element14.com/resized-image/__size/300x50/__key/communityserver-wikis-components-files/00-00-00-01-69/8206.contentimage_5F00_67846.png"&gt;&lt;img loading="lazy" alt="image" src="https://community-storage.element14.com/communityserver-components-secureimagefileviewer/communityserver/wikis/components/files/00/00/00/01/69/8206.contentimage_67846.png-300x50.png?sv=2016-05-31&amp;amp;sr=b&amp;amp;sig=lYgfpqbNf4CIKzE7JVRlJa2eVb%2B%2FN6IgtAL%2Fz6DgB8w%3D&amp;amp;se=2026-08-16T23%3A59%3A59Z&amp;amp;sp=r&amp;amp;_=a+/FmCQ47aWD6ndukgQHlA==" style="max-height: 50px;max-width: 300px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="border:1px solid #007fac;vertical-align:top;padding:6pt;"&gt;&lt;p style="margin:0;color:#007fac;font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:4px;"&gt;CodeBug&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;A fun, low-cost, programmable wearable device that anyone can learn to use.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="border:1px solid #007fac;vertical-align:top;padding:6pt;"&gt;&lt;a class="jive-link-wiki-small" href="/learn/learning-center/stem-academy/codebug/w/documents/989/10-codebug-projects-in-10-days"&gt;View 10 Projects in 10 Days Blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="border:1px solid #007fac;vertical-align:top;padding:6pt;"&gt;&lt;a href="/e14/assets/legacy/piaccesorry/embeddedPi.png"&gt;&lt;img loading="lazy" alt="image" height="50" src="/e14/assets/legacy/piaccesorry/embeddedPi.png"  /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="border:1px solid #007fac;vertical-align:top;padding:6pt;"&gt;&lt;p style="margin:0;color:#007fac;font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:4px;"&gt;Embedded Pi&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;A triple play platform for Raspberry Pi, Arduino and 32bit embedded ARM. Blending all three communities together, Embedded Pi helps to get the most out of each platform.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="border:1px solid #007fac;vertical-align:top;padding:6pt;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="border:1px solid #007fac;vertical-align:top;padding:6pt;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.element14.com/community/resources/statics/321251/fpga_sm.png"&gt;&lt;img loading="lazy" alt="image" class="migration-embeded-object" src="#https://www.element14.com/community/resources/statics/321251/fpga_sm.png"  /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="border:1px solid #007fac;vertical-align:top;padding:6pt;"&gt;&lt;p style="margin:0;color:#007fac;font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:4px;"&gt;FPGA Development Board&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;Allows people to create a customised microprocessor.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="border:1px solid #007fac;vertical-align:top;padding:6pt;"&gt;&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a class="jive-link-wiki-small" href="https://www.element14.com/community/docs/DOC-69210/l/fpga-development-board-for-the-raspberry-pi?ICID=piaccsy-playswell-doc"&gt;Learn More&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin:0;padding-top:3px;"&gt;&lt;a class="jive-link-wiki-small" href="https://www.element14.com/community/docs/DOC-69129/l/logi-fpga-development-boards-by-valentfx?ICID=piaccsy-playswell-doc"&gt;Explore An Introduction, Documents and Tools&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="border:1px solid #007fac;vertical-align:top;padding:6pt;"&gt;&lt;a href="/e14/assets/legacy/piaccesorry/gertboard62.gif"&gt;&lt;img loading="lazy" alt="image" height="50" src="/e14/assets/legacy/piaccesorry/gertboard62.gif"  /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="border:1px solid #007fac;vertical-align:top;padding:6pt;"&gt;&lt;p style="margin:0;color:#007fac;font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:4px;"&gt;Gertboard&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;Uses an ATMega328P which is the same chip as on the Arduino Uno.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="border:1px solid #007fac;vertical-align:top;padding:6pt;"&gt;&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a class="jive-link-wiki-small" href="https://www.element14.com/community/docs/DOC-69381/l/gertboard-for-raspberry-pi?ICID=piaccsy-playswell-doc"&gt;Learn More&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin:0;padding-top:3px;"&gt;&lt;a class="jive-link-blog-small" href="/products/raspberry-pi/b/blog/posts/raspberry-pi-and-gertboard"&gt;Spraying and Weeding Systems Paired with an Autonomous Lawn Mower Project&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="border:1px solid #007fac;vertical-align:top;padding:6pt;"&gt;&lt;a href="/e14/assets/legacy/piaccesorry/gertduino62.gif"&gt;&lt;img loading="lazy" alt="image" height="50" src="/e14/assets/legacy/piaccesorry/gertduino62.gif"  /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="border:1px solid #007fac;vertical-align:top;padding:6pt;"&gt;&lt;p style="margin:0;color:#007fac;font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:4px;"&gt;GertDuino&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;Arduino and Arduino Uno compatible GPIO expansion board.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="border:1px solid #007fac;vertical-align:top;padding:6pt;"&gt;&lt;a class="" href="https://www.element14.com/community/community/raspberry-pi/raspberry-pi-accessories/gertduino?ICID=piaccsy-playswell-doc"&gt;Learn More&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="border:1px solid #007fac;vertical-align:top;padding:6pt;"&gt;&lt;a href="/e14/assets/legacy/raspberrypi/ShimRTC_grid.png"&gt;&lt;img loading="lazy" alt="image" height="50" src="/e14/assets/legacy/raspberrypi/ShimRTC_grid.png"  /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="border:1px solid #007fac;vertical-align:top;padding:6pt;"&gt;&lt;p style="margin:0;color:#007fac;font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:4px;"&gt;Raspberry Pi RTC Shim&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;Adds a real time clock to the Raspberry Pi.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="border:1px solid #007fac;vertical-align:top;padding:6pt;"&gt;&lt;a class="jive-link-wiki-small" href="https://www.element14.com/community/docs/DOC-68907/l/shim-rtc-realtime-clock-accessory-board-for-raspberry-pi?ICID=piaccsy-playswell-doc"&gt;Learn More&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;p style="margin:0;padding:0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;table style="background-color:#dceef2;padding-top:6px;" width="80%"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" style="padding:6pt 6pt 0pt;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why not buy your Raspberry Pi a present?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="padding:6pt 8pt 6pt 6pt;" width="65%"&gt;&lt;a class="" href="https://www.element14.com/community/community/raspberry-pi/raspberry-pi-accessories?ICID=piaccsy-playswell-doc#buyaccsy"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We Carry Accessories for All Versions of Raspberry Pi&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align:top;padding:6pt;"&gt;&lt;a class="" href="https://www.element14.com/community/community/raspberry-pi/raspberry-pi-accessories?ICID=piaccsy-playswell-doc#cases"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;View Accessories&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

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