“A great little board, slap it ontop of your pi zero, add a couple of motors and some wheels and you basically have a mini robot base. Included library is simple to use and covers most of what you might want to do with this board. The buffered arduino compatible pins are just the icing on the cake.”
“I used the explorer phat in a trailcam to operate an IR filter and receive the input from an IR sensor and a couple of buttons.
It works perfectly and the motor control element operating the IR filter has helped me to reduce the size of the project,.
I wanted to control a relay with the output and it is worth noting that the output is not the same as using a gpio - in the end I simply connected the gpio pin and used it as normal, bypassing the phat to avoid extra faffing about - Luckily I'd soldered a taller 40 pin header to it so that I could use other hats simultaneously.
The output connection method is described in a forum post here: http://forums.pimoroni.com/t/controlling-sparkfun-beefcake-relay-with-explorer-hat-pro/2886/2
(forum poster is not me!)
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Motor controller is really versatile
Lovely pimoroni quality
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Would be nice if it had a simpler output (e.g. an exposed 3v3 gpio pin)”
“It's so generic you can do anything you imagine with it! Documentation for the library is great but there is not much documentation for how to do the hardware side.”
“Yes, I know it's just a PCB, but it's so beautifully finished! I was tempted to use colour-coded male headers on the top pins, but I couldn't bare to spoil the look.
Oh, and it's also extremely useful.”
