RPi Gertboard

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The Gertboard is one of the expansion boards, sold for some time in a kit form. It was nicknamed after Gert van Loo, its developer and one of the principal Hardware Engineers for Raspberry Pi, and was announced on 17th December 2011:

Introducing Gertboard

Gertboard Availability Announcement includes links to assembly and user manuals.

As of 2013-01-22, it is now possible to order pre-assembled Gertboard through Element 14: http://www.element14.com/community/docs/DOC-51726?ICID=raspberrypi-gert-banner User manual is available at : http://www.element14.com/community/docs/DOC-51727/l/assembled-gertboard-user-manual?ICID=gertboard-techdoc

Additional Details can be found on the Raspberry Pi Forum here.

Gertboard test suite has been released in Python. These are written to be functionally identical to the original C programs, but have been rewritten from scratch. There are versions for WiringPi for Python and RPi.GPIO.