External Arduino Programming Cable lets you use a PC or Mac to develop Sleepy Pi Apps Compatible with Sleepy Pi 1 and Sleepy Pi 2 Do I need this cable? No. You can develop code, debug and program the Sleepy Pi or Sleepy Pi 2 from your Raspberry Pi quite happily… …But there are times when you think: “Do you know what? why am I waiting for the RPi to compile and upload my code? I’ve got that nutter fast PC in the corner, couldn’t I use that?” “I’d like to debug my code whilst I’m shutting down / booting up my Raspberry Pi” If you are doing any serious code-smithing on your Sleepy Pi, then this is the tool for you. Host Your Development On Another Machine Run the Arduino IDE on your fast PC / Mac / Linux box and download the code direct to the Sleepy Pi. PC / Mac / Linux compatible USB – plugs into your computers USB port Speed up your development Debug even when you RPi is off or booting Standalone – run you Sleepy Pi all on it’s lonesome – no Raspberry Pi needed What’s in the Bag? Adapter Box Kit – yes a bit of soldering required TTL-232R-3V3 – FTDI’s USB to Serial Cable (3V3) – 1.8m Drivers from here
