Product description
Inventor HAT Mini helps transform a Raspberry Pi computer into a robot, prop, kinetic sculpture, creepy automaton or other exciting moving thing. Want to drive a couple of fancy motors with encoders (or hook up standard motors with jumper wires)? Yep! Add up to four servos? Sure? Attach a little speaker so you can make noise? No problem!
It's expandable too, with a pass-through header for stacking with other boards and four extra ADC-capable GPIO pins - you could use these to attach analog or digital sensors, or more buttons and LEDs. Speaking of LEDs, we've also managed to fit in 8 addressable RGB LEDs - that's one for each servo and GPIO/ADC channel so you can use them as indicators.
We wanted Inventor HAT Mini to be fast and easy to get started with, so we've equipped it with convenient pre-soldered pin headers, a Qw/ST connector for plugging in breakouts and a fully featured Python library with plenty of helpful examples. For power users, we've added an unpopulated external power input and the ability to use higher voltage motors and servos (up to 10V).
* Nuvoton microcontroller (MS51TC0AE) with built-in 16-bit PWM and 12-bit Analog to Digital Converter (datasheet)
* 4 sets of header pins for connecting 3 pin hobby servos
* 4 sets of header pins for GPIO (all of which are ADC capable)
* Servo and GPIO pins all have their own power and ground pins
* Dual H-Bridge motor driver (DRV8833)
* 2 JST-SH connectors (6 pin) for attaching motors with encoders
* Alternate socket connector for attaching 2 standard (2 pin) motors
* Per motor current limiting (425mA)
* Per motor direction indicator LEDs
* MAX98357 3.2W I2S mono amplifier
* 2 pin (Picoblade-compatible) connector for attaching speaker
* 8 x addressable RGB LEDs/Neopixels
* User button
* Qw/ST connector for attaching breakouts
* Pass-through 40 pin header
* Fully assembled - no soldering required
It's expandable too, with a pass-through header for stacking with other boards and four extra ADC-capable GPIO pins - you could use these to attach analog or digital sensors, or more buttons and LEDs. Speaking of LEDs, we've also managed to fit in 8 addressable RGB LEDs - that's one for each servo and GPIO/ADC channel so you can use them as indicators.
We wanted Inventor HAT Mini to be fast and easy to get started with, so we've equipped it with convenient pre-soldered pin headers, a Qw/ST connector for plugging in breakouts and a fully featured Python library with plenty of helpful examples. For power users, we've added an unpopulated external power input and the ability to use higher voltage motors and servos (up to 10V).
* Nuvoton microcontroller (MS51TC0AE) with built-in 16-bit PWM and 12-bit Analog to Digital Converter (datasheet)
* 4 sets of header pins for connecting 3 pin hobby servos
* 4 sets of header pins for GPIO (all of which are ADC capable)
* Servo and GPIO pins all have their own power and ground pins
* Dual H-Bridge motor driver (DRV8833)
* 2 JST-SH connectors (6 pin) for attaching motors with encoders
* Alternate socket connector for attaching 2 standard (2 pin) motors
* Per motor current limiting (425mA)
* Per motor direction indicator LEDs
* MAX98357 3.2W I2S mono amplifier
* 2 pin (Picoblade-compatible) connector for attaching speaker
* 8 x addressable RGB LEDs/Neopixels
* User button
* Qw/ST connector for attaching breakouts
* Pass-through 40 pin header
* Fully assembled - no soldering required
