Design your own Pi HAT, attach custom circuitry and otherwise dress your Raspberry Pi with this jaunty prototyping HAT kit with EEPROM

To kick off the Adafruit HAT party, we have this Perma-Proto-inspired plug-in daughter board. It has a grid of 0.1" prototyping soldering holes for attaching chips, resistors, LED, potentiometers and more. The holes are connected underneath with traces to mimic the solderless breadboards with which you're familiar. There are also long power strips for +3V, +5V and Ground connections to the Pi. Near the top, we break out nearly every pin you could want to connect to the Pi (#26 didn't quite make the cut).

This is the fancier version of our Perma-Proto HAT. It comes with a printed circuit board and a single 2x20 GPIO Header for Raspberry Pi to put your Perma-Proto on top of your Raspberry Pi (like a nice little hat...) This version comes with a blank 24C32 I2C EEPROM soldered on and connected to the EEDAT/EECLK lines so you cannot 'stack' it with other HATs. However, you can program in the EEPROM to make a self-identifying setup using the Pi Foundations' HAT specs - please note the specifications are still under development.

You can customize your Perma-Proto setup using a standard 2x20 stacking header or an extra tall 2x20 stacking header. You can also swap out the 2x20 header with a slim 2x20 type if you want it to sit closer to the Pi, or an extra tall one if you want it to sit above the USB/Ethernet ports.

A bit of light soldering is required to attach the header to the PCB but it's easy work.

For the same Proto HAT with no EEPROM click here

This hat is only compatible with the Raspberry Pi Zero, A+, B+, 2, 3, 4, 5 etc (any Pi with a 2 x 20 connector)! It will not work with the Raspberry Pi Model A or B with 2 x 13 connectors

Note: Raspberry Pi is NOT included

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