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Microcontroller boards based on the RP2040 chipset, the same SoC that powers the $4 Raspberry Pi Pico(opens in new tab)are becoming very popular among makers. Newer boards are popping up with extra features appearing on them, such as this 1.14 inch color display, the $10 LILYGO T-Display spotted by CNX Software(opens in new tab).

It"s not the first(opens in new tab) such board, of course, with the Arducam Pico4ML(opens in new tab) pulling a similar trick - and with a resolution of 240×135 pixels it’s hardly HD - but it comes in at just under $10 with the RP2040 board attached. Along with the ST7789V SPI controller needed to run the screen, you get all the usual Pico accoutrements such as the dual-core Cortex M0+ processor, 2 x UART , 2 x SPI and 2 x I2C connections, along with a generous 4MB of flash storage. Power and data connectivity is via USB-C, a good choice of connector as it is now becoming the norm on maker boards. Where the LILYGO T-Display falls short is the GPIO. The board looks to be wider and a different pin layout to the traditional Raspberry Pi Pico, so creative hacking is required to connect accessories designed for the Pico.

There’s also support for powering the board, and its screen, with a battery thanks to a two-pin 1.25mm pitch JST connector - you get a connector cable in the package along with an expansion header. The board is programmable through MicroPython and C like any other Pico(opens in new tab), and CNX speculates that Arduino support could be coming soon, thanks to the existence of an Arduino-liking ESP32 board(opens in new tab) by the same manufacturer with the same display. Right now CircuitPython support is unknown, but it won"t be long until a member of the community ports CircuitPython to this board.

This 18-bit capable 320x240 pixel IPS display adheres majestically to the back of your Pico, and has lush colours and great viewing angles. Just like our original Display Pack, we"ve surrounded it with four tactile buttons so you can use your human fingers (or other non-human appendages) to interface with your Pico. There"s also an RGB LED that you can use as an indicator, for notifications or just for adding extra rainbows.

Pico Display 2.0 lets you turn a Pico into a 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 fill up all that prime screen real estate with digitally generated, Mandelbrot-esque art, beautiful graphs or readouts from lots of sensors. You could even make a device for getting folks to share their secrets via Telnet!

The labels on the underside of Pico Display Pack 2.0 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.

MicroPython code written for the original Display Pack can be easily converted to run on Display Pack 2.0 by changing DISPLAY_PICO_DISPLAY to DISPLAY_PICO_DISPLAY_2.

Display Pack 2.0 also works very nicely with CircuitPython and Adafruit"s DisplayIO library - look for the Display Pack 2.0 ST7789 example in the library bundle to get started!

Even though it"s bigger than our other Pico Packs, Display 2.0 will still work with Pico Omnibus or Pico Decker, if you want to use more than one Pico Pack at once. Please note that if you plug Display 2.0 into a Pico Decker, it will overhang the addon slot next to it.

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!

The snappily named Raspberry Pi Pico display 1.54-inch LCD by Spotpear ($11.89) brings in a 240×240 pixel IPS screen and ten buttons in a joypad-like arrangement. There’s four for direction, four for action, a select, and a start. At least, they’re labelled like this. You can use them for anything you like.

There are also some sample UF2 files included along with the C example code, but these appear to have been built for different hardware and work either partially or not at all. The actual example code did compile and work properly.

When we ran the example code, we were impressed with the quality of the screen. With 240×240 pixels in just 1.54 inches, there’s a high pixel density that can give crisp graphics. Obviously, high pixel densities are a double-edged sword. While they can look great, it does mean higher RAM use, more time transferring data, and more data to process.

Fortunately, Pico is well-suited to the task of driving screens. Each pixel can take 16 bits of colour data, so a full-frame buffer is just 115,200 bytes. The display data is transferred by SPI, and Pico has a maximum SPI frequency of half the clock speed. For MicroPython, that means 62.5MHz. The actual data transfer rate is a little less than this because of overhead of the protocol, but we were able to drive full-frame refreshes at over 40 fps, which is plenty for smooth animations.

Obviously, if you’re looking to do animations, sending the data is only half the story. You also need to calculate the frame before it’s displayed. If you’re using MicroPython, you are quite limited by the amount of processing you can do and still keep a high frame rate (though you could use the second core to offload some of the processing). With C, you’ve got much more scope, especially as you could potentially offload the data transfer using direct memory access (DMA).

The one disappointing thing about the screen is that there’s no control over the backlight. According to the documentation, it should be attached to pin 13, but it isn’t. You can’t turn it on or off – it’s just permanently on, and quite bright. That’s a deal-breaker for anything running off battery power, as it will suck up a lot of power. However, if you want a display permanently on, this might be perfectly acceptable.

Each month, HackSpace magazine brings you the best projects, tips, tricks and tutorials from the makersphere. You can get it from the Raspberry Pi Press online store or your local newsagents.

Chinese embedded electronics specialist 01Space has launched an Arduino, MicroPython, and CircuitPython-compatible compact development board powered by a Raspberry Pi RP2040 microcontroller — and a display that"s almost as small as the USB Type-C port that powers it: the RP2040-0.42LCD.

"RP2040-0.42LCD is a high-performance development board [with] integrated 0.42" LCD (70×40 resolution) with flexible digital interfaces," its creators claim of the design, which was brought to our attention byCNX Software. "It incorporates Raspberry Pi"s RP2040 microcontroller chip. The RP2040 features a dual-core Arm Cortex-M0+ processor clocked at 133MHz with 264KB internal SRAM [static RAM] and 2MB [external] flash storage."

The board itself features pins down either side for breadboard compatibility and a USB Type-C port to the top for data and power. Just beneath this is the aforementioned display, an ultra-compact glass panel, which is actually built on organic light-emitting diode (OLED) rather than liquid-crystal display (LCD) technology.

Elsewhere on the board are physical reset and boot-select buttons, a single RGB LED linked to the RP2040"s GPIO2 general-purpose input/output (GPIO) pin, and a power indicator LED. A total of 11 of the RP2040"s GPIO pins are brought out to physical pins, including access to all four analog to digital converters (ADCs), two SPI, two I2C, and one UART bus alongside regulated 3.3V, USB 5V, battery, and ground power pins — along with a bonus Qwiic/STEMMA QT connector on the underside for solder-free linking to external sensor boards.

For software compatibility, the 01Space board can be treated as a Raspberry Pi Pico — meaning there"s support in both MicroPython and CircuitPython, or it can be used with the Arduino IDE usingEarle Philhower"s community Arduino core. For the latter, 01Space offers a selection of example programs — including one that loads and displays small animated GIFs on the single-color display.

More details on the RP2040-0.42LCD are availableon the 01Space GitHub repository, while boardscan be purchased from Banggoodfor $11.99 including shipping.

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Another bottom of the barrel Oscilloscope adjacent product is dual channel ~$150 FNIRSI 1014D EEVblog /forum/testgear/new-bench-scope-fnirsi-1014d-7-1gsas/ Allwinner F1C200s + probably same FPGA and two AD9288s. ~30MHz of real BW and seems to be much worse despite being more expensive and a proper desktop form factor.

At those bottom prices its hard to justify building your own, but hacking DSO1511G/DSO2512G to replace Allwinner processor with pico and decent UI could be interesting.

How can one control a 7-segment LED display with the Raspberry Pi Pico? In this blog, we shall look at this. But before we go into that, let’s look at what a 7-segment LED display is. Also written as the ‘seven segment display’, it comprises seven LEDs (from where it gets its name) arranged in a rectangular fashion. Each of the LEDs is called a segment because when illuminated the segment forms part of a numerical digit (both decimal and hex) to be displayed.

Raspberry Pi refers to a series of small single-board computers developed in the United Kingdom by the Raspberry Pi Foundation in association with Broadcom. The boards have been made keeping in mind the promotion of teaching basic computer science to kids. The latest offering by Raspberry Pi is the Raspberry Pi Pico, a new flexible IoT board. Essentially, it is a microcontroller board built on silicon and designed at the Raspberry Pi Foundation.

Priced at merely $4, Raspberry Pi Pico is smaller than the average Pi and indicates how the foundation is now looking to branch out into microcontrollers and custom silicon.

As a microcontroller, the Raspberry Pi Pico can be used in many projects, be it Internet of Things (IoT), Adafruit Neopixel projects, data logging, small to medium scale robotics, projects needing interfacing with cameras, analog sensing (using environment sensors) and more.

Now connect the 8 wires to the 8 corresponding pins of the 7 segment LED display. You can use GPIOs configured as outputs to control them from the Raspberry Pi Pico.

Now we are going to make a list of pins and it would be a good idea to add comments so that we know which pin controls which segment. Overall, we shall have 8 pins, 7 of them are for displaying the numbers and one controls the dot.

Having configured each one of them to be outputs, the next step is to try to see if we can cycle through different numbers of the display. For each character, we have a list of values to be applied to each one of the pins. Because ours is a common anode, setting pins valued to zero is what turns on the 7 segment LED display. If you were to use a common cathode, you would flip it and setting it to one would turn it on instead (with setting it to zero turning it off). We now go ahead and create multiple lists responding to each one of the numbers. We can also display some alphabetical letters on this as well (though we haven’t tried it here).

Now in a loop, we are going to iterate over each of the characters and use each of the values and set them to each one of the pins. Then we wait a second before we move to the next character.