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a construction base for prototyping of electronics

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Universal Breadboard for Raspberry Pi?

it can make connecting the GPIO pins to the breadboard easier, and if using a Pi with male headers it allows using the more common male to male jumper wires. … You may also want to read how to use a breadboard. …
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Question about Breadboard positioning

From the pictures. It appears that you have the cable connected to the board incorrectly. Normally the red stripe on a ribbon cable indicates pin 1. Pin 1 on the Pi is on the SD card end of the board. …
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How should I connect GPIO pins to leads to my sensor in a permanent Raspberry Pi deployment?

You could prototype with a breadboard and then transfer the components to the protoboard and solder the connections to make it more permanent (note there are more suppliers for these parts besides Adafruit … Depending on the environment you could just leave it on a breadboard with jumper wires. …
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connecting common anode rgb led

Connect the common anode pin to 3.3 volt and each of the other pins to a GPIO (add a current limiting resistor between the LED and the GPIO pin. To Light one of the colors set the corresponding GPIO p …
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RGB LED is not lighting up

A common anode LED should have the common leg connected to 3.3 volts and the others connected to 3 seperate GPIO pins. Connect the common pin to 3.3v, then wire the other three legs of the LED to the …
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