In this article we look at one of the RP2040 board offerings from Adafruit. In this case its a much smaller sized board called the Adafruit QT Py RP2040 The QT Py RP2040 adds an extra analog pin compared to the Pico which brings the…
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In this article we look at another RP2040 board called the SparkFun Pro Micro, this is a low cost basic RP2040 board with minimal features There are two LEDs on the Pro Micro RP2040. The red LED indicates power and the other is an addressable…
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If you are looking for a display for a project like a counter, timer or a simple digital clock then the 4-Digit 8-Segment Display Module for Raspberry Pi Pico is a low cost option The SNx4HC595 devices contain an 8-bit, serial-in, parallel-out shift register that…
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The Raspberry Pi Pico Relay Board from sbcomponents allows your Raspberry Pi Pico to control up to 4 devices with loads up to 240V AC / 7A or 30V DC / 10A. The 4 channels have an opto-isolator, here is what an opto-isolator does An…
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The Pico-RTC-DS3231 is an RTC expansion module specialized for Raspberry Pi Pico. It incorporates high precision RTC chip DS3231 and uses an I2C bus for communication. More external sensors are allowed to be connected thanks to the stackable design. DS3231 Information The DS3231 is…
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The Feather RP2040 is a board from Adafruit which features the RP2040 microcontroller from the Raspberry Pi foundation. Like other Rp2040 boards tyou can program it in circuitpython, micropython , C/C++ and there is also Arduino support Features 21 x GPIO pins with following capabilities:…