Documentation¶

Getting Started¶

A general description of Bricks, Master Extensions, Bricklets and concepts can be found in the primer.

These tutorials are an introduction to the usage of Bricks and Bricklets and their concepts:

• First Steps
• Rugged Approach
• Authentication
• RED Brick
• Build Environment Setup (for firmware development)
• Bricklet Cables (7 pole vs 10 pole)
• ESP32 Firmware

Answers to frequently asked questions can be found in the FAQ. Saftey instructions and compliance information are available here. All downloads are listed in the downloads section.

Hardware¶

Our products are divided into five different categories:

• Bricks
• Bricklets
• Master Extensions
• Power Supplies

There is an extra section for discontinued products.

Software¶

The software includes service and test programs, the API bindings to interact with Bricks and Bricklets, as well as their firmwares and plugins:

• Brick Daemon (brickd)
• Brick Viewer (brickv)
• Brick Flash (brick-flash, Linux only)
• Brick Logger
• API Bindings
• ESP32 Firmware

All software is available in the downloads section and is also hosted in our APT repository for Debian based Linux distributions. The source code and links for bug trackers can be found in their own section.

The basics of the programming interface are described here.

Kits¶

We offer kits for different subject areas, so you can get started with Tinkerforge more easily:

• Starter Kit: Weather Station
• Starter Kit: Hardware Hacking
• Starter Kit: Server Room Monitoring
• Starter Kit: Server Room Monitoring 2.0
• Starter Kit: Blinkenlights
• Starter Kit: Internet of Things
• Starter Kit: Camera Slider
• Tabletop Weather Station

Embedded Boards¶

Bricks and Bricklets can easily be combined with different embedded boards:

• Raspberry Pi

Specifications¶

The specifications include technical data for the connectors used on Bricks and Bricklets as well as the different low level protocols:

• TCP/IP Protocol
• Modbus Protocol

A Wireshark dissector for the Tinkerforge Protocol (TFP) is available. Also a high level analyzer for Saleae Logic 2 is available.