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Raspberry Pi Build HAT

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The Build HAT is the culmination of two years of work between the Raspberry Pi Foundation and Lego Education. The idea: to carry on from Lego’s block-coding language and provide a Python module that enables learners to keep using the expensive Lego kits with a more powerful and expandable language.

The hardware is essentially an interface between the Raspberry Pi’s 40-pin general purpose input/output (GPIO) and those Lego kits. Build HAT targets Lego Spike Prime and Technic, but no Mindstorms as this uses a different connector. The hard part of making a

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