PIBRELLA
Build a Python-based reaction game
Les Pounder goes back to the early days of the Raspberry Pi to look at a board that made a big difference to his career.
OUR EXPERT
Les Pounder is associate editor at Tom’s Hardware and a freelance maker for hire. He blogs about his adventures and projects at bigl.es.
YOU NEED
→Any Pi Raspberry Pi OS
→Pibrella breadboard
→Button
→Two M-to-
M jumper wires
→Code: https://
github.com/ lesp/LXF-Pibrella/ archive/ refs/heads/ main.zip
Pibrella is an awesome little board. We first came across it in 2014 while delivering a training course and since then we’ve used it with hundreds of learners. This £10 board may be eight years old, but it’s still a great way to get to grips with electronics on the Raspberry Pi. In this tutorial we’ll learn a little about this board, and create a reaction game to prove who’s the fastest of them all!
Because Pibrella was designed for the original 26-pin GPIO Raspberry Pi it has to connect to the first 26 GPIO pins of any Pi. The first 26 pins are from the micro SD card. With the Raspberry Pi powered off, connect Pibrella so that it fits directly on top of the Pi. No part of Pibrella should “stick out” from the footprint of the Pi. The included rubber foot will need to be positioned so that Pibrella doesn’t touch the Raspberry Pi. See the guide at https://bit.ly/lxf289pibrellafor details.