Description
OnOff SHIM is a shield for the Raspberry Pi, mounted on the GPIO connectors. After disconnecting the power supply to the micro USB port on the shield and pressing the button, minicomputer will start. After installing the software, you can press the button again to turn the device off and completely disconnect power from Raspberry PI.
The subject of the sale is a shield OnOff SHIM, minicomputerRaspberry Pican be purchased separately.
SHIM shield (Shove Hardware in the Middle) is a new type of boards designed to be small, inexpensive and handy, and to be able to be directly soldered to the GPIO connectors of the Raspberry Pi and used with other HAT or pHAT shields. Their thickness is 0.8 mm (the thickness of the board without mounted components).
Key features
- Super small format of the SHIM board
- Thickness of the board: 0.8 mm
- It can be used with HAT and pHAT shields
- Micro USB connector for powering
- Red LED - indicator
- Optional pin for additional button
- It supports the current of up to 2.5 A
- Requires soldering
- The kit includes: shield and female goldpin strip of 2x 6-pin
- The software prepared by the manufacturer is not working with Raspbian Wheezy
Software
The manufacturer has prepared a software that is installed online. To install it, open a terminal and type:
curl https://get.pimoroni.com/onoffshim | bash.The software prepared by the manufacturer is not working with Raspbian Wheezy.
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