INTRODUCING THE PISHIELDS.COM  TRACKER

The TRACKER is the first of a family of add-on "shields" for the Raspberry pi from pishields.com.

Features of the TRACKER include:

• Works with Rev 1 (256MB) and Rev 2 (512MB) versions of the Raspberry pi
• Real-Time clock with battery
• 3-axis accelerometer
• Altimeter
• Gyroscope
• Temperature sensor
• GPS (can be enabled/disabled by the processor to save power).
• 2 RS-232 ports (1 connected to the ARM, 1 connected to either the PIC or GPS chip - jumper selectable)
• PIC18LF24K22 to handle real-time events.  Communicates with RPi over I2C. Comes pre-programmed, but is reprogrammable via the serial port by the user.
• 4 channels of 10 bit A/D, 3 single-ended, 1 full differential
• 1 channel of buffered D/A
• 7 channels of GPIO (independent of the RPi)
• Micro-SD card slot (managed by the PIC) - can store location or event data independently of the RPi.
• On-board switching regulators (to off-load the RPi's regulators).
• LEDs for status
• Zero-power switch - completely shuts off ALL power until awakened by RTC ALARM or user input. RPi can shut down the system until the next RTC alarm or switch closure.
• RPi GPIO header is extended, allowing for the addition of more pishields.

The TRACKER is extends slightly over the end of the RPi board (the SD card end) , but does not extend past the envelope of the RPi + SD card (see the pictures below).

The TRACKER is perfect for any application where you need to know the location of something - cars, hikers, drones etc.

The tracker pinout is below:

For more information contact  info@pishields.com