A few months ago, [Omer] sent in a Raspberry Pi to Arduino bridge he’s been working on called Ponte. Now that he’s gotten a few assembled, he can actually test out his ideas for combining the powerful Raspi with the ubiquitous Arduino.
Ponte revision 0 used a pair of 12-bit analog to digital converters, but during the soldering and debugging phase of development [Omer] discovered a few things were wrong with his original design. The FETs on the fabricated boards had the drain and source pins mixed up, but that problem was easily solved with a bit of board surgery.
The worst problem was the mechanical design of Ponte rev. 0 – the power jack on the Ponte is directly above the Raspi’s USB port, meaning it’s impossible to plug the Ponte into the Pi.
[Omer] is working on these problems and should have the revised boards completed shortly. A few people have asked where they can get a Ponte, but right now there are no plans to assemble and ship boards. That may change, but for now if might be worth bugging [Omer] to put his new and improved Ponte (with an 8-port I2C port expander!) up on SeeedStudio
Right angle header?
you can get headers that are extra long:
http://www.reichelt.de/index.html?ACTION=3;ARTICLE=19454;SEARCH=STAPELLEISTE%2050
I can’t seem to find it over on seed studio :-(
I cant seem to find it on Seed Studio :-(
I hate Seeed Studio! :-)
Let’s bug [Omer] from his website http://omer.me to be able to find this board on Seeedstudio :)
Or you might try to bug Seeedstudio to get in contact with Omer as well. :)
This is a good example of why you should always build a circuit on protoboard or stripboard or something similar to work out the problems before doing a fabricated pcb, unless you have money to throw away.
PCB are so cheap, it is never really worth wasting time on proto/strip boards for smd based designs.
Honored for the mentioning, Seeed will bug [Omer] :)