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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!).

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!

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 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:

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.

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The Raspberry Pi Pico is a low-cost, high-performance microcontroller board with flexible digital interfaces. It features the RP2040 which marks Raspberry Pi"s first microcontroller, it provides minimal external circuitry to support the RP2040 chip. Pico born with powerful performance, reasonable price, and comprehensive resources, it will definitely become a great platform for learning and mastering electronic knowledge.

To help the learners to start with Pico, Makerfabs has prepared the Pico starter Kit as the first tool kit, it is compatible with the Raspberry PI official guide book, easy for new learners. Besides, Makerfabs also prepared this primer kit, for starters to learn more.

This primer kit is composed of many kinds of sensors/actor modules, with the standard Mabee connector(Grove compatible), so it is ready for plug& play. In the meantime, there we provide detailed tutorials for each module with Micropython. Besides, Arduino also supports the PICO well, please check How to use Raspberry PI Pico with Arduino.

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Note: There are two options: (please choose your preference)Raspberry Pi Pico with PRE-SOLDERED male headers, and it is breadboard friendly, plug and use!

Released on the 21st of January 2021, the Raspberry Pi Pico is the 1st Microcontroller Development Board from Raspberry Pi Foundation. It is also based on the 1st Microcontroller IC/Silicon - RP2040, designed and produced by Engineers from the Raspberry Pi team too.

What are the differences between the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B and this Raspberry Pi Pico? Well basically, the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B is a motherboard or single-board computer that you can use to play games, work, record data, browse the Internet, watch movies, like a media player, and many more. Raspberry Pi Pico is not designed to replace the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B (or similar board), it is more for physical computing projects where it controls anything from small electronic components, LEDs, motors; reading information from sensors, or communicating with other microcontrollers.

As Python is the official programming language of Raspberry Pi OS, MicroPython is chosen to be one of the programming languages for Raspberry Pi Pico. MicroPython is a lean and efficient implementation of the Python 3 programming language that includes a small subset of the Python standard library and is optimized to run on microcontrollers and in constrained environments.

MicroPython is packed full of advanced features such as interactive prompts, arbitrary precision integers, closures, list comprehension, generators, exception handling, and more. Yet it is compact enough to fit and run within a microcontroller such as Raspberry Pi Pico. MicroPython aims to be as compatible with normal Python as possible to allow you to transfer code with ease from the desktop to a microcontroller or embedded system.

Programming loading of MicroPython into Raspberry Pi Pico is effortless. Just connect the Pico to any computer (including Raspberry Pi SBC) via USB, then drag and drop the file onto it. Yes! It is that easy! And Raspberry Pi Foundation has put together a downloadable UF2 file to let you install MicroPython more easily. Visit the Getting Started page by Raspberry Pi to download the necessary file. Or you can get yourself a printed copy of the "Get started with MicroPython on Raspberry Pi Pico" and start your digital-making journey.

Not to worry, C/C++ is not forgotten :) Raspberry Pi Pico can also be programmed with C or C++ Programming language. To get started, please visit this page.

You can always connect the Raspberry Pi Pico to any preferred computer with Windows, macOS, and Linux that supports Python 3.0, yet connecting it with the Raspberry Pi Single Board Computer will be perfect as it is designed by the same team. The official Operating System, Raspberry Pi OS comes pre-installed with Thonny Python IDE which is ready for you to get started writing MicroPython code for Pico. If you are using another OS (Windows, macOS, or other Linux distribution), please visit https://thonny.org/ to download the IDE and install it.

Even though Raspberry Pico is based on 1st silicon designed by the engineers from the Raspberry Pi Foundation, they never disappoint us. The launching of Raspberry Pi 4 Model B, CM4, and Raspberry Pi 400 proves that! Check out the features and specs of this tiny yet powerful microcontroller board. It comes with not one, but two cores (dual-core) of a 32-bit ARM Cortex M0+ processor. Flexible clocking system, withconfigurable up to a maximum speed of 133MHz! This tiny MCU comes with a whopping 264 Kbyte of SRAM, an external QSPI with a capacity of 2 MByte, and eXecute in Place (XIP). Large RAM and Flash size enable you to write high-level programming languages like MicroPython for Raspberry Pi Pico.

1st Microcontroller Platform with the first in-house designed MCU silicon, RP2040! Yet, the Raspberry Pi team never stops surprising us with their work. This tiny board comes with a Dual-core 32-bit processor, ARM Cortex M0+ is an optimized superset of the Cortex-M0. The Cortex-M0+ has complete instruction set compatibility with the Cortex-M0 thus allowing the use of the same compiler and debug tools. The Cortex-M0+ pipeline was reduced from 3 to 2 stages, which lowers the power usage. On top of dual-core Cortex M0+, Raspberry Pi Pico comes with a reconfigurable clock speed, with the on-chip PLL (Phase-Locked Loop), which allows the MCU to be clocked at a maximum speed of 133MHz, of course, a configuration is necessary.

Raspberry Pi Pico is not only super affordable, but it is also ready to be embedded in any product out of the box. If you choose the version without pre-soldered headers, it is ready for SMT (Surface Mount Technology). Raspberry Pi Pico is extended out to 40-pin 21x51 DIP (Dual Inline Package) style, 1mm thick PCB with 0.1" (100mil) through-hole pins. The pins are further extended to the PCB edge with a castellated circuit board. This enables it to be soldered to another PCB board without the need for extra header pins, making it a smaller and compact finished product. Awesome!

Meanwhile, the version with pre-soldered headers is breadboard friendly, so students, makers, and engineers can use the Raspberry Pi Pico on a breadboard or any standard PCB board for development or prototyping.

Raspberry Pi Pico incorporates the famous and commonly used USB Micro B receptor for both Power and Data. Just simply get a USB Micro B cable that normally comes with an Andriod phone or power bank to power it and load the program into it. No additional USB to Serial adapter is needed. Neat!

With 26 GPIO (3.3V) broken out for applications, it has more GPIO pins than Arduino UNO, Arduino NANO, or even Arduino MKR Zero. Among these 26 GPIOs, 3 can be configured as 12-bit ADC with 500ksps (kilo sample per second), 2 x UART, 2 x SPI, 2 x I2C, and up to 16 x PWM pin. Internally, it also comes with 1 x Timer with 4 alarms and 1 x Real Time Counter.  Not to forget the dual Programmable IO (PIO) peripherals which are flexible and user-programmable high-speed IO. It can emulate interfaces such as SD cards and VGA.

Note: The Raspberry Pi Pico GPIO runs at 3.3VDC. The maximum voltage that the I/O pins can tolerate is 3.3V. Applying voltages higher than 3.3V to any I/O pin could damage the board.

With 2 MByte of external QSPI Flash and264 KByte of SRAM on Raspberry Pi Pico, it will never prompt you about not having enough memory :) Besides, the large size of RAM and Flash also enable Raspberry Pi Pico to be supported with higher programming languages such as MicroPython or even Javascript.

With the USB Micro B receptor ready as the physical connection to a computer and the USB 1.1 PHY on the RP2040 (MCU), the Raspberry Pi Pico offers a simple and straightforward program loading method. It is like copying files from a drive to another drive. The Pico appears as USB mass storage when it is connected to the computer via the USB port! It becomes a USB drive! Write your code and drag the file into that USB drive. After the file is completely copied, the Pico will reboot and run the program :) Easy right?

Besides MicroPython, Raspberry Pi Pico also supports C and C++ Programming Langauge. Check out the C/C++ SDK for more info. All these programming languages are loaded into Raspberry Pi Pico through USB Mass Storage which enables the simple drag and drop method (like copying a file to another drive).

The USB Micro B receptor is the main power input to get the Raspberry Pi Pico "running", just connect the USB cable to any USB port and it will supply the power needed for the MCU to execute the program. In the case where you do not want to use the USB port, for example, a battery-powered, or a customized product; not to worry, Raspberry Pi Pico comes with a flexible onboard buck-boost Switch Mode Power Supply (SMPS) that is capable of accepting 2 to 5VDC input and converts it to a stable 3.3V supply for the RP2040 MCU to operate. Simply awesome! The pin is VSYS (Pin 39). With a wide voltage range, Raspberry Pi Pico can be powered by USB, 2 x AA battery, 2 x NiMH AA battery, 1 x 18650 Li-ion battery, or 1 x Cell LiPo battery!

Since Raspberry Pi Pico is the 1st MCU platform from Raspberry Pi Foundation, everyone is new to it. Fear not! It is quite a beginner-friendly microcontroller board. Here are our recommendations for the beginner, maker, and engineer:Get the Raspberry Pi Pico with Pre-soldered headers if you want a hassle-free experience to get started.

Official Get Started with MicroPython on Raspberry Pi Pico-Color Printed, a comprehensive guide from Raspberry Pi to kickstart with this new MCU platform.

Maker Pi Pico is a further beginner-friendly development board that extended all the GPIO of Pico to headers, Grove connectors, MicroSD card slot, ESP-01 (WiFi) socket, LED indicators, On-board buttons, RGB LED (Neo-Pixel).