Product description: Docking Station for Raspberry Pi Pico
An extension for RaspberryPi Pico, it acts as a docking station. The overlay is equipped with a number of facilities and features to make working with the Raspberry Pi Pico module easier. On board the base station you will find 3 programmable buttons,buzzer,programmable RGB LED, audio jack, 3.5mm, microSD slot,6 Grove portsand a socket to connect theESP-01. Each of the GPIO pins has an individual LED for easy testing and troubleshooting.
This offer is for the Maker Pi Pico Base docking station, theRaspberry Pi Picomodule must be purchased separately, it is not part of the kit.
Maker Pi Pico Base.
The pins of the Maker Pi Pico Base docking station.
Main features of the Maker Pi Pico Base overlay
- Access to all Raspberry Pi Pico pins without soldering
- Can be used right out of the box
- LEDs to initialize leads
- 3 programmable buttons (pins 20-22)
- Programmable RGB LED (pin 28)
- Buzzer (pin 18)
- 3.5mm stereo audio jack socket (pin 18-19)
- MicroSD card slot (pin 10-15)
- Connector for ESP-01 (pin 16-17)
- 6 Grove ports
Programming Raspberry Pi Pico
The Raspberry Pi Pico module can be programmed usingCircuitPython,MicroPython,CandC++language. To upload a program to the board, press and hold the BOOTSEL button and connect the Raspberry Pi Pico to the computer via a microUSB cable. The module will be detected as a USB mass storage device named RPI-RP2, drag and drop the program file into the RPI-RP2 volume. The manufacturer has prepareda repository on GitHubwith sample programs to work with the Maker Pi Pico Base overlay.
Raspberry Pi Pico with soldered connectors.
Is there a Raspberry Pi Pico?
What is Raspberry Pi Pico?
The RaspberryPiPico is a module featuringRaspberry's ownRP2040microcontroller made in the UK. The RP2040 is a dual coreARM Cortex M0+based chip clocked at 133 MHz. Pico is equipped with 264 kB of SRAM and 2 MB of Flash memory. The chip features26 GPIO pinswhich operate at3.3Vand a temperature sensor.
