Review Seeed Grove Shield for Raspberry Pi Pico Review: Electronics as simple as Lego

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[Rich_Morin]

I found this (and the starter kit) to be very interesting. However, soldering the pins onto a Pico board is likely to be a non-starter for many users, especially visually impaired ones. Also, the LEDs and LCD display in the starter kit are going to be useless to a blind user.

I posted an issue on the Seeed forum, but I'd also like to see Tom's Hardware add some coverage of these sorts of issues. Searching this site, I didn't find anything that seemed very relevant...

 

[romilly]

@Rich_Morin I'd like to discuss some related ideas with you out-of-band. I'm @rareblog on twitter, if you use that. My email is romilly dot cocking at gmail dot com

 

[Rich_Morin]

Cool! Today is going to be very busy for me, but I'll get back to you RSN.

 

[Vomster]

Agreed. Soldering is going to be a skill needed unless you can find a adapter.

 

[Rich_Morin]

Seeed's Grove system is pretty blind-friendly, in general. The 4-wire cables generally contain all of the needed signals and power. Also, the connectors are polarized, so they can't be put in backwards.

However, soldering a set of pins onto a RasPi Pico is going to be a non-starter for many folks (especially blind ones), so I think there should be a way to get started without the need to do this.

-r

 

[Ainsfei]

@Rich_Morin
It seems that Seeed heard your voice, the pre-soldering version
https://www.seeedstudio.com/Raspberry-Pi-Pico-Pre-Soldered-p-4875.html