TINKERplate is the first Pi-Plate that is fully compatible with the Raspberry Pi HAT standard. With this design, we have borrowed features from our other products and squeezed them down onto this tiny form factor. And like all Pi-Plates, you can increase the number of available I/O ports by stacking up to eight TINKERplates.

On 10/10/2023, Debian Bookworm was released for the Raspberry Pi. This OS has a number of new features that improve the GUI as well as some behind the scenes improvements. One change however, is going to be a little painful for users of Python. Specifically, any code that uses a library added via the pip utility has to be executed inside a virtual environment. While the reasons for doing this are valid (see PEP 668 for more details), the solution is somewhat draconian. Perhaps a more elegant solution will arrive in a later release of the OS, but until then, you can choose to either hold off upgrading to Bookworm (and stay with Bullseye) or to do the following: