Adeept Raspberry Pi GPIO Expansion Board +830 Points Solderless Breadboard +65pcs Jumper Cables +40pin Rainbow Ribbon Cable

Has extra cables and works great

This is a fine product that helps improve the functionally of your raspberry pi device. It lets you extend your GPIO pins for more easy plug and play access.All components of this package seem to be of good quality. The extension board is a nice touch, especially.The main drawback of this device, however, is that the tutorial URL listed on the device front does not load correctly. Instead of loading into a tutorial, as of October 17 2022, it loads into a page with a PDF that says "TEST."Any pi tinkerer should know how to use this product without a tutorial. That being said, new users expecting the advertised tutorial may be left without one. For this reason, although I recommend the product, I cannot give it a perfect rating.

I have planned for some time to do some "tinkering" with Raspberry Pi micro-computers... tiny system-on-a-board devices which, while less powerful than a full desktop system, typically, are nevertheless very powerful in their own right.I currently own only one Pi... despite having been on a "waiting list" now for more than a year for additional devices. This is the current problem with Raspberry Pi... despite their claim to be there for "home users, tinkerers, and educators," they're selling almost all of their production inventory to industrial customers right now, and leaving their original target audience (people like you and me) in the gutters. Being that they still claim, on their website, to be focused on the "tinkerer-inventor-educator" market, their products are almost entirely unavailable, and may be for some time to come.So, while I can't criticize this package, which is very useful for Raspberry Pi computer users, it may prove useless to you unless you're willing to pay "scalper" prices for a unit bought off the "grey market." (Example - a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W, like the one I own, is officially sold for about $15, but is only available from this "grey market" for $100 or more. If you own a top-of-the line Raspberry Pi 4 B, which nominally sells for just under a hundred dollars, expect to pay around eight hundred dollars to get one on that "grey market.")BUT... if you're one of the lucky ones to have gotten a unit, and AREN'T a major industrial purchaser using these commercially... this kit will be right up your "tinkerer/experimenter" alley.Raspberry Pi computers have several dedicated inputs and outputs... HDMI for video, USB for power in and for external device connection, networking (on the larger devices) and so on... but one feature all share is the GPIO header... "general purpose input output." This is a programmable header which can do... well... almost ANYTHING you can program it to do. From video output to running a massive data acquisition array, to running robotics systems... it can all be controlled by programmed use of the GPIO port. But while there are a ton of commercial "hats" which plug into this, and provide certain pre-defined functions, if you're creating something of your own, you need, essentially, THIS kit.It contains a cable which goes from the GPIO header on the mini-computer mainboard to an "interface" which then plugs into a breadboard. On the breadboard, you can use pre-created jumper wires to connect any components you like, in any configuration you like. You can connect multiple "hats," simultaneously (though you have to ensure that they don't try to use the same GPIO pins in different ways!), and can even have these "hats" connecting to other devices, rather than merely to the Pi itself.If you are trying to create something NEW... and know how to program the Pi... a breadboard like this is where you need to start. And this kit provides you with everything you need.Well, everything except the Raspberry Pi itself. Good luck getting one of those without paying a "scalper" for it.

Many of us SBC adventurers have lots of devices using that 40-pin connector in our lives. The connectors are rarely identical, but this board doesn't take a stand - it works with all of them. The individual Dupont leads are a definite bonus for getting those signals from the bus to the righ tplace on the breadboard.The breakout board is one of those average quality commodity items. It's fine for casual use, but if you plug and unplug it a LOT (like multiple times a day...) the teeth can become less grippy and that can be a drag. If it doesn't put up a fight when you plug it, you may need to re-spring the teeth a little. Most users will never experience this. This is a common trait of all the "orange and white" class of boards.That 40-pin connector is rich in signals, but connecting them is a pain. This package lets you fly that connector out, flipping it if necessary (Hello, BeagleV with your ginormous fan...) so you can get those signals on a breadboard. You'd think a ribbon cable and a breadboard would tear up the purity of those signals, but in practice, the signals aren't THAT high of frequency and if you're connecting a rotary encoder, a display, or some sensors, the signal quality is just fine.For those of us that don't quite have all the pins memorized, the large, clear labeling is a plus. If you're on a board that isn't QUITE a Pi, it's easy enough to sit a piece of paper (gasp) next to the board to "fix" the labeling. It's low-tech, but that's OK. It also lets you reuse this board next week when that board is no longer the hotness and it's time for the NEW NEW board!It's a nice product that solves some real world problems for people like me. Recommended.

Usually when I am prototyping various Pi based projects, I sit there and use the annoying leads to a breadboard from the Pi and move them (and it) as such. Problem is I keep my main Pi in an air cooled little case and it gets annoying with the cables from the GPIO breakout.This leaves one point of use which is the breadboard itself and makes it much easier to leave your Pi isolated and connected and just move and work with the breadboard itself and full, mounted and ready to go position.I've been working on a few telemetry projects lately for data collecting and interfacing this to my work Pi I was able to leave it alone and just focus on the breadboard while testing various leads and it did make it much more convenient.Icing on the cake is the pricing is very inexpensive and the board and kit is of good quality.5/5