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This series of pages provides details of a family of Maker PCBs that began with an initial Raspberry Pi Maker PCB Project started in the summer of 2020.
The aim of the original Raspberry Pi PCB project was to consolidate a number of components previously used in separate breadboard-based educational projects, along with some additional options, in a more robust, permanent assembly that uses a custom printed circuit board (PCB). This then allowed a wide range of individual components to be controlled and managed by software that runs on the Raspberry Pi, enabling a user to build up their own 'library' of tried and tested methods that they could combine and use in further projects of their own.
Building a permanent and robust assembly from a set of components installed on a PCB, not only allows an extra 'soldering' skill to be practiced, but also allows the populated PCB to be used over an extended period of time to develop different software options.
The evolution of the initial Raspberry Pi based Maker PCB has now progressed to a very mature stage and has prompted the development of a family of PCB designs. The family now includes a Starter Maker PCB for users that are just starting to explore digital making as well as further larger PCBs that can be used with the Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller as well as with more established ESP32 and ESP8266 microcontroller modules; all these 'controlling' devices, along with a Raspberry Pi4, are shown below .
Details for all the Maker PCBs that have been developed:
All the currently available maker project information: