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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!

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!

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!).

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 is a new Pi Pico display from Waveshare with many more pixels. It is a 2inch LCD display module, designed for Raspberry Pi Pico, with an embedded ST7789VW driver, 65K RGB colours, 320x240 pixels and an SPI interface. A Pi Pico can be plugged into the rear of the screen for very easy connection without any soldering. It sports 4 simple button switches for user input. It is bright, colourful and easy to program. The makers supply an example program (see below), which includes the display driver, making it very easy to get started. The manufacturer"s wiki can be found at:

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.

Pimoroni has sourced a new LCD screen especially for their Pico Display Pack - it"s a lovely, bright18-bit capable 240x135 pixel IPS displayand fits the Pico perfectly. The display is surrounded withfour tactile buttonsso you can easily interface your Pico with your human fingers and anRGB LEDthat 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 with our Pico add-ons is by downloading and copying our custom MicroPython firmware to your Pico, it includes all the libraries you"ll need. Click herefor our beginner friendly tutorial!

Pico Display Pack communicate 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 Scroll Pack both on USB power and from external supplies (from 1.8V to 5.5V) making it ideal for battery powered projects.

Raspberry Pi Picois a flexible, low costmicrocontroller development boardfrom 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!