
The Arduino LinkBox enables the gPiO Box to be controlled using Arduino based software including the Arduino IDE, Flowol(R) and others.
There is more information on the LinkBox on the TechNote here.
The LinkBox is needed to control the large 7 segment displays in this store.
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“When I first got my hands on a Raspberry Pi early experiments with breadboard and jumper wires were a disaster. I had decided that there probably wasn’t a niche for the Raspberry Pi at KS2 until I got my hands on a set of gPiO interfaces. I now teach physical computing on the Pi throughout my school, starting with children as young as 8 – and they love it!”