Explorer HAT Pro

Explorer HAT Pro: add useful tools to your Pi board

Explorer HAT Pro is the ideal complement for your Raspberry Pi. It provides plenty of useful digital inputs and outputs, capacitive touch pads, crocodile clip compatible pads, mini breadboard, coloured LEDs options to upgrade your projects. These options will reveal ideal to use analog sensors, drive motors and interface with 5V systems.

The Explorer HAT Pro comes fully assembled and it is compatible with Raspberry Pi 4B, 3B+, 3, 2, B+, A+, Zero and Zero W boards.

The Explorer HAT Pro features are:

• Four buffered 5V tolerant inputs (which are compatible with Arduino)
• Four powered 5V outputs (up to 500mA)
• Four capacitive touch pads (labels 1, 2, 3, 4)
• Four capacitive crocodile clip pads (labels 5, 6, 7, 8)
• Four coloured LEDs (colour yellow, red, green and blue)
• Four analog inputs
• Two H-bridge motor drivers (up to 200mA per channel; soft PWM control)
• A heap of useful (unprotected) 3v3 goodies from the GPIO
• A mini breadboard on top
• Explorer HAT Pro pinout
• Compatible with Raspberry Pi 4B, 3B+, 3, 2, B+, A+, Zero and Zero W boards
• Python library
• Comes fully assembled.

5V tolerant inputs: Hook up your Raspberry Pi to accept the input from 5V systems (such as Arduino Uno/Leonardo or 5V Trinkets). A 5-channel buffer is used and it will accept anything from 2V-5V as logic high.

5V powered ouputs: The onboard darlington array supplies up to 500mA per channel, although you will be limited to a more or less total of 1A from the board. Perfect for relays, solenoids and stepper motors.

Eight capacitive inputs: Four are for capacitive touch pads input along the front edge (labels 1, 2, 3, 4) and four (labels 5, 6, 7, 8) are up the side to attach capacitive crocodile clip pads to objects for your experiments.

Four coloured LEDs: Yellow, red, green and blue independently controllable LEDs that are awesome status indicators.

Four analog inputs: Ideal for integrating analog signals neatly into your project. Input 2-5 volt.

Two H-Bridge motor drivers: Drive two 5V motors bidirectionally with up to 200mA per channel. They are perfect to create little buggy with the help of micro-metal gear-motors. It is also possible to soft-PWM for full speed control.

Check out the Explorer HAT Pro Python library, documentation and examples.

This software does NOT support Raspbian Wheezy

Pimoroni Name: Explorer HAT Pro [PIM082]