
Invention is never easy, but it seems that Pimoroni is on a winning streak. The company’s latest board, the $24 Inventor HAT Mini follows the design philosophy of “pHAT” boards, add-on boards designed for the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W and its predecessors. It can also be used with Model B Raspberry Pi, such as the Raspberry Pi 4, if one were to use a header extension.
This diminutive board features a range of outputs for servos, GPIO, motors, sensors, serial communication and of course there are eight bright RGB LEDs.
Could it be a contender for our list of Best Raspberry Pi HATs? To learn that and to learn more about what this board can do we put it on the bench and see how it performs.