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With the included Raspberry Pi Pico C/C++ and MicroPython demos, getting started with this screen is quick and easy. There"s also no soldering required with this LCD display - just slot your Pico into the female headers on the rear and you"re good to go!

This display uses an embedded ST7735S driver, which uses the SPI bus to communicate with your Pico (leaving the majority of your Pico pins free for other things!).

With the included Raspberry Pi Pico C/C++ examples, getting started with this screen is quick and easy. There"s also no soldering required with this LCD display - just slot your Pico into the female headers on the rear and you"re good to go!

4 programmable buttons can be found on each corner of this IPS display, giving you lots of interface control options for your project. They"re already connected to the Pico"s GPIO pins too (pins 2, 3, 15 and 17).

This display uses an embedded ST7789VW driver, which uses the SPI bus to communicate with your Pico using just the 4 pins (leaving the majority of your Pico pins free for other things!).

We"ve sourced a new LCD screen especially for our Pico Display Pack - it"s a lovely, bright 18-bit capable 240x135 pixel IPS display and fits the Pico perfectly. We"ve surrounded it with four tactile buttons so you can easily interface your Pico with your human fingers and an RGB LED that you can use as an indicator, for notifications or just for adding extra rainbows.

Pico Display lets you turn a Pico into a compact user interface device for a bigger project, capable of giving instructions, displaying readouts and even incorporating elaborate nested menus. If you"d rather use your Pico as a standalone device you could make a little rotating slideshow of images, display beautiful graphs from sensor data or build your own Tamagotchi or matchbox sized text adventure game.

The labels on the underside of Pico Display will show you which way round to plug it into your Pico - just match up the USB port with the markings on the board.

The easiest way to get started is by downloading and copying our custom MicroPython uf2 to your Pico, it includes all the libraries you"ll need to use our add-ons. The beginner friendly tutorial linked below will show you how to get to grips with pirate-brand MicroPython.

Pico Display also works very nicely with CircuitPython and Adafruit"s DisplayIO library - look for the Display Pack ST7789 example in the library bundle to get started!

Pico Display Pack communicates with the LCD display via SPI on pins LCD_CS, LCD_DC, LCD_SCLK, and LCD_MOSI. We also PWM the BL_EN pin (with gamma correction) for full, linear, backlight control. LCD_RESET is tied to the RUN pin on Pico so the LCD will be fully reset whenever Pico is.

There is also an onboard RGB LED (ideal to use an activity indicator!) which is also PWMed (with gamma correction) on pins LED_R, LED_G, and LED_B. If you want to use the LED pins for something else there are three cuttable traces on the underside of the board.

Power is supplied through 3V3 meaning that you can use Pico Display Pack both on USB power and from external supplies (from 1.8V to 5.5V) making it ideal for battery powered projects.

Raspberry Pi Pico is a flexible, low cost microcontroller development board from the folks at Raspberry Pi, based on their very own chip - the RP2040. It"s easily programmable over USB with C/C++ or MicroPython, and ideal for using in all sorts of physical computing projects, devices and inventions - we"re so excited to see what you make with it!

We"ve called our Pico-sized add-ons packs, as they"re designed to attach to the back of your Pico as if it were wearing a very stylish back pack (or a miniature jet pack, if you prefer). We"ve also got Pico bases (larger add-on boards with a space to mount your Pico on top) and some other boards that let you do interesting hackerly things like using multiple packs at once - click here to view them all!

When the Raspberry Pi Pico arrived in January 2021, few realised just how popular the $4 microcontroller would become. In a move which disrupted the status quo, Raspberry Pi released its own microcontroller, the RP2040 and partnered with Arduino, Adafruit, Pimoroni and SparkFun to release a plethora of different boards based around this chip. The ongoing chip shortage hasn"t impacted the RP2040. In fact the RP2040 is becoming popular for mass produced projects and has sparked a trend where makers seek to integrate the chip into ever more outlandish projects. Who can blame the savvy makers for choosing a powerful $1 SoC that is actually in stock. Since launch we have seen the RP2040 power a myriad of boards and projects, but to get the most out of the $4 microcontroller we need to get the right accessories.

In June 2022, Raspberry Pi released the follow-up, the Raspberry Pi Pico W which brings Wi-Fi (and eventually Bluetooth) to the Pico form factor, for just $6. The Pico and Pico W share the same GPIO pinout, which means you can use many of the same accessories in your Pico W projects.

The Raspberry Pi Pico is also powerful enough to cover many basic to intermediate maker projects, such as robotics and Wi-Fi data collection devices. To do this we need a few extra components. Luckily, just like with the regular Raspberry Pi, an entire ecosystem of accessories has emerged, with new products arriving on a weekly basis. The range of accessories can be broken down into the following groups:Add on boards which connect to the GPIO of the Pico and provide extra functionality such as wireless communications, LCD screens and RGB LEDs.

All-in-one boards which breakout the Raspberry Pi Pico to a larger form factor featuring many additional features not found on the Pico. An example being Pimoroni"s Pico W Aboard range, such as the Inventor 2040 W.

Overall, these are the best Raspberry Pi Pico accessories. No matter what your needs or project, you’ll definitely want some of these to enhance your builds.

Neopixels are a maker"s favorite means to make things “blink”. They can be any color, communicate data and even be used to build basic games. Pimoroni’s Pico Unicorn features 112 RGB LEDs and four push buttons all in a neat “pack” that fits to the GPIO pins of the Raspberry Pi Pico.

Using the Pico Unicorn will block access to the GPIO, but you have to admit, it looks great. Programming the Pico Unicorn is possible via C/C++, MicroPython and CircuitPython. We tested the Pico Unicorn with a series of fast animations, including a "disco" mode which changed the color of a random pixel as quickly as possible.

One of the best Raspberry Pi Pico accessories for maximizing your parts library, the Red Robotics Pico 2 Pi lets you use of accessories designed for the Raspberry Pi by providing the same 40-pin GPIO layout you find on regular Raspberry Pis. Pico 2 Pi can be used with a surface soldered Pico, or with the optional header to enable easy removal of your Pico.

The Pico 2 Pi adaptor has the same footprint as a Raspberry Pi Zero W and we can easily secure HATs and pHATs to the 40 pin GPIO and the M2.5. We tested Pico 2 Pi with a range of boards and the simpler boards “just worked”, but the more complex a board, the more work there is to make the software work.

Pimoroni’s Omnibus (dual) and Pico Decker (quad) expanders are designed to work with Pimoroni’s “Pack” add on boards, some of which are among the best Raspberry Pi Pico accessories. If you want to use multiple packs with your Pico, these extenders are simple breakouts, with no extra tech, just the same pins broken out to multiple headers.

The simplicity of the Omnibus / Pico Decker does highlight one issue; boards sometimes share GPIO pins and, if that is the case, then you may encounter issues. If you are using I2C or SPI, there are no issues as these protocols use addresses to identify devices. But for simpler connections, such as basic digital IO and boards that rely on PWM on certain pins, there will be difficult decisions to be made.

This is a small IPS LCD screen on a microcontroller no bigger than a stick of gum; let that sink in! Pimoroni’s Pico Display is a 1.14 inch 240 x 135 pixel IPS LCD screen flanked by four pushbuttons and a single RGB LED. It connects to all 40 pins of the Raspberry Pi Pico’s GPIO but in reality it uses only a few, so it would work great with Pimoroni’s Omnibus and Pico Decker expanders.

Writing code for the Pico Display is via MicroPython or C/C++ and, for our tests, we wrote a simple project to scroll text across the screen, randomly changing the color of the text and RGB to match. We then added a few more lines to read input from the buttons and trigger different actions.

Spend just $10 for a complete electronics learning platform, including a Raspberry Pi Pico? That is the immense value offered by Cytron’s Maker Pi Pico and it is why it is one of the best Raspberry Pi Pico accessories that you can get. Embedded in the center of the Maker Pi Pico is a Raspberry Pi Pico, and the surrounding board has pre-connected breakouts for every GPIO pin, many connected to extra components such as a microSD card reader, audio output / buzzer and a series of Grove connectors, the same as those used on Seeed’s Grove Shield which enable fast and simple electronic circuit development.

The Raspberry Pi Pico is not the first thing that comes to mind for Machine Learning projects, but thanks to TinyML, designed for microcontrollers, the 133 MHz CPU of the Raspberry Pi Pico is capable of basic image recognition and, with the Uctronics TinyML Learning Kit, we have a 2MP SPI camera which can be used with a trained model to identify objects or even people.

Building a Stream deck with Raspberry Pi Pico is incredibly simple thanks to CircuitPython but wiring up the buttons can be such a chore. Ready-made solutions such as Pimoroni’s Pico RGB Keypad provide a simple means to achieve our goals. Providing 16 inputs, each with their own RGB LED, this board requires a Raspberry Pi Pico (sold separately) and just a little CircuitPython code to create a simple deck. The board can be coded in MicroPython, but at the time of writing there is no USB HID library available for that programming language.The Pico RGB Keypad comes as a kit which is held in place with four screws. The Raspberry Pi Pico is at the far end of the keypad, on show for all to see which is both a pro and con depending on your point of view.

Sometimes the best Raspberry Pi Pico accessory is the simplest and Captain Resetti is both a simple and cheap solution to a problem. When the Raspberry Pi Pico was released, there was one missing feature. A reset button.

How important is the reset button? To flash new firmware (MicroPython / CircuitPython / C/C++) we need to unplug the Pico, press and hold BOOTSEL then plug the Pico back into our machine. Doing this often will add wear and tear to the mechanical USB ports of the board.

The $30 Pimoroni Pico Explorer is an “embedded circuit experimental arena” which offers a series of GPIO pins, a small LCD screen, dual motor outputs and two breakouts compatible with Breakout Garden boards. The goal of the Pico Explorer Base is to be a place for experimentation with electronic components, a goal shared with the Explorer HAT range of boards for the Raspberry Pi.

Our Raspberry Pi Pico sits proudly in the corner of the board, and we see a GPIO breakout for the GPIO pins of the Pico, and for the onboard DRV8833 motor controller, so yes you can build a robot with this board! The onboard LCD screen is similar to that found on the Pico Display, and it uses the same software library. Two Breakout Garden slots enable use of Pimoroni’s breakout boards, essentially I2C / SPI boards designed to “just work” with the board.

The Raspberry Pi is missing one key feature, Wi-Fi and while we can hack our own solution using a Feather board designed for Adafruit’s Feather RP2040. It is not the neatest of approaches. Pimoroni’s Pico Wireless is a “pack”, designed to attach to all 40 pins of the GPIO as if it were a backpack. This does prevent access to the GPIO, but we gain 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi, micro SD card reader, RGB LED and a user programmable button.

Pimoroni provide a MicroPython module which enables basic use of the board, but using CircuitPython is where we saw the biggest return on our investment. We were soon pulling data from remote APIs and using them in our Pico powered projects.

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The Raspberry Pi Pico is a low-cost, high-performance microcontroller board with a flexible digital interfaces. It"s similar to an Arduino in that it provides only microcontroller functionality, executing programming in MicroPython or C++. It can be programmed by USB using a Raspberry Pi board, PC, Mac, etc. You can read more about its development and custom chip on the Pi Foundation Blog!

The Pico does not include GPIO or debugging pins, so you"ll need to purchase and attach the variety of your choice. We suggest a solder-in header like our

The Raspberry Pi Pico is the first product built on silicon designed in-house at Raspberry Pi (“Raspberry Silicon”). At its heart is RP2040, a Raspberry Pi-designed chip, which features two ARM Cortex-M0+cores clocked at 133MHz; 256KB RAM; 30 GPIO pins; and a broad range of interfacing options. This is paired with 2MB of on-board QSPI Flash memory for code and data storage.

This 1.14inch display is equipped with Raspberry Pi RP2040. It supports C/C++ and MicroPython programming language and comes with a 135*240 full color TFT display.

With a 1.14 ”LCD screen module with a resolution of 240X135 pixels, you can easily realize your projects that require the use of a screen on the Raspberry Pi Pico. You can perform projects such as game console with joystick and button on it.

The 16×2 I2C LCD Display is used with the Raspberry Pi Pico to generate the Billboard Scrolling effect. It is used to display different strings and characters on the display screen of the LCD. The text displayed on the screen of LCD can be scrolled right or left of the screen for advertisement purposes or to gain the attention of the audience.

In this write-up, we will learn the scrolling of text on the 16×2 I2C LCD Display screen which is interfaced with the Raspberry Pi Pico. In one of our earlier post we discussed about interfacing LCD Display with Raspberry Pi Pico. You can follow the guide to learn more.

In this guide, I used Elecrow Raspberry Pi Pico Starter Kit to test different Modules. You can buy the kit and perform some other operations as well. From this kit, you can use the following components.

It’s composed of 5×7 dot matrix positions; each position can display one character. The Model 1602 means it displays 2 lines of 16 characters. The principle of LCD1602 liquid crystal display is to use the physical properties of liquid crystal to control its display area through voltage, and then display characters.

This display incorporates an I2C interface that requires only 2 pins on a microcontroller to the interface. The I2C interface is a daughterboard attached to the back of the LCD module. The I2C address for these displays is either 0x3F or 0x27.

The adapter has an 8-Bit I/O Expander chip PCF8574. This chip converts the I2C data from a microcontroller into the parallel data required by the LCD display. There is a small trimpot to make fine adjustments to the contrast of the display. In addition, there is a jumper on the board that supplies power to the backlight.

Connect the LCD VCC & GND Pin to Raspberry Pi Pico 5V & GND Pin respectively. Connect the SDA & SCL pins of the LCD to Raspberry Pi Pico GP0 & GP1 pins respectively.

The code is divided into three parts. One is i2c_lcd.py, the other is lcd_api.py & thrid one is main.py. The LCD doesn’t work directly as it requires few libraries.

Pico 1.28” Round LCD HAT is a 1.28-inch display HAT with 240 x 240 resolution, 65K RGB colours, clear and colourful displaying effect, and a joystick, designed for the Raspberry Pi Pico to expand its engagement via SPI communication by providing a standard 40 pin Pico GPIO interface. The Pico 1.28" Round LCD HAT includes an incorporated GC9A01 display driver and SPI interface, reducing the number of IO pins required. It features a 5-input joystick that is connected to the Pico 1.28” Round LCD HAT through a stackable GPIO connector header on the inside.