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.

- Les Pounder

Pibrella will work with newer models of Pi. Just remember to place it on the first 26 pins of the GPIO.

YOU NEED

> Any Pi Raspberry Pi OS

> Pibrella breadboard

> Button

> Two M-toM jumper wires

> Code: https:// github.com/ lesp/LXFPibrella/ 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/1xf289pibrella for details.

For the project you'll need to place a push button into a breadboard, then connect the legs of one side to Input A of the Pibrella. It doesn't matter which leg goes to which part of Input A, as long as you only use one side of legs from the button.

When done, connect your keyboard, mouse, HDMI, Ethernet and lastly power which goes directly to Pibrella via the micro USB. Once everything's connected, boot to the Raspberry Pi OS desktop.