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OK so, exciting right? But, what's the catch? The catch is this add on board uses nearly every pin available on the

Raspberry Pi and those pins are hardcoded, they cannot be moved or rearranged. The pins used are GPIO 2 through

21 inclusive. That means you don't get the UART RX/TX pins (no console cable) and you don't get the standard user

I2C pins, the EEPROM I2C pins, or hardware SPI pins. You do get to use pins #22, #23, #24, #25, #26 and #27, and

the USB ports are fine to use too.

The other catch is that this display replaces the HDMI/NTSC output, so you can't have the DPI HAT and HDMI

working at once, nor can you 'flip' between the two.

Also, there's no PWM's available so you can't have precision backlight control unless you somehow rig up an external

PWM generator with a 555 or something.

Finally, we did test this setup with a straight-up Raspbian and after the software installs, it works great. However, we

don't guarantee it will work with any other Raspberry Pi operating system or setup.