Starter kit for Raspberry pi

Pandi August 2, 2016 1 min read

Connecting an LED, pushbutton buzzer to your pi board requires some amount of time and in turn increases wiring space etc. If you also want to interface some of your analog sensors to your Pi directly you need an ADC why not reduce all the wires and move on to the Starter kit for Pi introduced by Tenet Technetronics.

The starter kit board is a simple self-assembly kit that adds 2 LED’s, a buzzer, 2 push buttons, Temperature, LDR, and Potentiometer with MCP3008 (ADC) attached to the Raspberry Pi via the GPIO port. These can be programmed to give you visual or audio feed back to events happening on the Pi or within your programs. A useful and fun project for anybody wanting to start programming and use the Pi’s GPIO port.

Technical specification:

Temperature sensor: Rated for Full −55°C to 150°C Range

LDR resistance: 400 ohm to 400K ohm

MCP3008: 8 channel ADC input

LED: 5 mm

Potentiometer: 10K ohm

Push-button: SPST tactile switch

Buzzer: Piezoelectric

Interface with raspberry Pi:

The starter kit can easily be plugged onto the Raspberry Pi, since the GPIO pins are internally connected you don’t need connect it externally. It acts like a plug and play device.

The below fig shows the experiments done using Raspberry Pi