Raspberry Pi turns Superhero with the Pi click shield

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srdjan.misic
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Raspberry Pi turns Superhero with the Pi click shield

#1 Post by srdjan.misic » 21 Feb 2014 20:15

Raspberry Pi turns Superhero with the Pi click shield

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The Pi Click shield is like a superhero suit for your Raspberry Pi - it fits tightly, and transforms
it from a mild mannered mini-computer to a click board enhanced supergadget capable of amazing feats...

To get more technical, it's a shield carrying a mikroBus™ host socket, you just connect it to your Raspberry
Pi's connector, and you can start inventing with Click boards.

A Click board is a small extension board carrying a specific component that enables your Pi
to interact with the environment.

With more than 70 different click-boards to chose from, you can give your Raspberry Pi powers of
thunder detection, proximity, heat or color sensing, and you can even combine those
together. Like a comic-book, it's more up to your imagination than anything else.

If you only used your Pi for simple stuff, like playing movies, now you can turn it into a weather station,
a RFid door lock, or a smart light controller like shown here:

http://vimeo.com/87289098

All that potential with a simple $5.80 shield. That's probably less than a pack of
batteries for your TV remote. We bet you already got some ideas for your own inventions
- order the Shield and a click board that fits your idea and start working now.

Yours sincerely,
MikroElektronika

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Re: Raspberry Pi turns Superhero with the Pi click shield

#2 Post by Ivan_Kokic » 13 Mar 2014 17:28

Hi!
It is a fact that one of the biggest problems about RPi is power supply.
Peripherals with larger power consumption can make problems.
Have you considered including additional circuits on Pi Click for additional power supply?
Circuits for connecting batteries, maybe uniting VOLT board and Pi Click?
Just suggesting...

Ivan

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Re: Raspberry Pi turns Superhero with the Pi click shield

#3 Post by dejan.odabasic » 19 Mar 2014 09:09

Hello,

Thank you for sharing your thought with us.
I will present your suggestion to our developers and they will consider it.

Best regards.

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