I've recently refound my love for tinkering with things and have been slowly building up a collection of Raspberry Pis and an Arduino. My secret Santa was kind enough to find out if I was missing a particular item, a breakout board, to assist with said tinkering.

I eagerly answered the message that I didn't have a breakout board for my Raspberry Pi and waited with anticipation. Lo' and behold, the day the gifts arrived! Like any normal person I totally forgot to take any pictures of the parcels (honestly, who's got time for that?) and ripped them open. Inside was the breakout board (PiPlate) and a cobbler!

For those that don't know about these kinds of things, these are great bits of kit for prototyping new projects with the raspberry Pi and are going to be put to good use after Christmas when I'll receiving my first soldering iron (in the mean time, hooray for breadboards!)

Thank you secret Santa, you'll see some of my experiments in the Raspberry Pi subreddit next year!