Maker Pi Pico Base: Simplifying Pi Pico for Beginners

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.

Maker Pi Pico Base.

The pins of the Maker Pi Pico Base docking station.

• 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

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?

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.

• Cytron Maker Pi Pico Base manufacturer's website
• Maker Pi Pico Base documentation
• Pinout diagram
• GitHub repository
• RP2040 Documentation
• Raspberry Pi Pico Documentation
• RP2040 project files
• GitHub repository - Pico SDK
• GitHub repository - sample codes