HAT Technology

[NeilAlexanderHiggins]

When the HAT standard was first announced, I braced myself for a flood of groovy, self-configuring add-ons ... which never happened. For example I immediately went hunting for a high-speed ADC, but the ADCs that are available are neither high speed nor HATed (HATish is better, on second thoughts). Sure there are a few HAT-like things floating around, but not the kind of deluge I expected. Is there a problem? Or is it just that HAT technology is over the top for what the majority of users are doing with the Pi?

[RaTTuS]

dunno what are you after
https://www.abelectronics.co.uk/product ... 2-model-b/ ?
http://shop.pimoroni.com/collections/hats ?

[NeilAlexanderHiggins]

My point exactly. I have seen these products and they really undersell the presumptive benefits of the HAT concept. I could convert analogs faster with an abacus. Ah well, I guess the market just isn't there. (Edit) on further contemplation, perhaps the problem is that the header only brings out GPIOs - there's no access to address and data buses, as would be needed for peripherals (according to the traditional meaning of the word).

[PhilE]

That's a bit narrow minded. You can connect I2C, I2S and SPI peripherals, and with some software trickery you can extend this to include Onewire as well. Together they can get you a long way.

[ktb]

I've been fairly happy with the Pico UPS.

[NeilAlexanderHiggins]

That's a bit narrow minded. You can connect I2C, I2S and SPI peripherals, and with some software trickery you can extend this to include Onewire as well. Together they can get you a long way.

Huh?? What part of thinking out loud is "narrow minded?" I could just go and trash the product on another forum - that would be narrow minded. I half expected a zealot to jump out from behind a bush and smash me with his baseball bat - that has happened before. But a moderator?? Whatever happened to civil debate?

[PhilE]

I'm sorry. You're absolutely right - the dictionary definition is awful, and not at all what I meant. Unimaginitive is closer to what I meant, which is that just because you don't have peripherals hanging off the primary bus it doesn't mean you can't do interesting things.

[NeilAlexanderHiggins]

Hmmmm ... "Narrow Minded," generously downgraded to "Unimaginative." And I thought I was doing ok, for a dog. See you over in alt.flame, zealot-boy.

[PhilE]