Hardware Used List

The hardware used in the book is listed below.

Chapter 6 – Using Python to Drive Hardware

The following 3 kits are also available as a combo pack – see the Breadboard & Components Kit (Ch6 Kit) product page for more details, or the Shop to purchase.

Mini-Breadboard Kit

The mini-breadboard kit includes all the components needed to complete several small hardware projects.  This kit is intended to provide all the parts you need to complete the following recipes from Chapter 6 of the book:

• Controlling an LED
• Responding to a Button
• Controlled Shutdown Button

Pi-Hardware Directional Pad / Game Controller Kit

Used in the following sections in Chapter 6 of the book:

• The GPIO keypad input
• There’s more… Generating other key combinations
• There’s more… Emulating mouse events
• See also – Can also be used with the game examples created in Chapter 4

Pi-Hardware RGB-LED Kit

Used in the following sections in Chapter 6 of the book:

• Multiplexed color LEDs
• There’s more… Hardware Multiplexing
• There’s more… Displaying random patterns
• There’s more… Mixing multiple colors