PIM720 - An electronic adventure playground for physical computing, built around the RP2350 chip. Includes a 2.8" LCD screen, a speaker, a mini breadboard, and much more! This Explorer lets you play with circuits, build science experiments and prototype tiny robots and inventions. We've incorporated tinkering essentials like: a convenient mini breadboard for wiring up components servo headers analog inputs a built in speaker for making beeps and boops plenty of general purpose inputs/outputs connectors for attaching crocodile leads Qw/ST connectors for attaching I2C breakouts Next to all that lot, there's a vibrant 320 x 240 pixel IPS LCD screen surrounded by six chunky tactile buttons so you can easily monitor and control what your project is doing. It's all mounted on a nice, sturdy baseboard that's printed with a fancy full colour silkscreen. We've also included some little legs, so you can have it propped up at an angle as well as lying flat, and there's a battery connector on the back so you can keep things portable. You can buy a Pico Explorer board on its own or as part of a Starter Kit, which also contains a whole bunch of fun components to start tinkering with. Features Powered by RP2350B (Dual Arm Cortex M33 running at up to 150MHz with 520KB of SRAM) 16MB of QSPI flash supporting XiP 2.8” IPS LCD screen (320 x 240 pixels) Driver IC: ST7789V Luminance: 250 cd/m2 Active area: 43.2 x 57.5mm USB-C connector for programming and power Mini breadboard Piezo speaker 6x user-controllable switches Reset and boot buttons 6x crocodile clip terminals 4x 3-pin servo outputs 6x GPIO and 4x ADC easy access headers, plus 3.3V power and grounds 2x Qw/ST (Qwiic/STEMMA QT) connector 2-pin JST-PH connector for adding a battery Lanyard slot! Includes 2x desktop stand feet Fully-assembled (no soldering required) Programmable with C/C or MicroPython Dimensions: approx 107mm x 85mm x 16mm (H x W x D, assembled) Connecting Breakouts If your breakout has a Qw/ST connector on board, you can plug it straight in with a JST-SH to JST-SH cable, or you can easily connect any of our I2C breakouts with a JST-SH to JST-SH cable coupled with a Qw/ST to Breakout Garden adaptor. Breakouts currently compatible with the C /MicroPython build About RP2350 The RP2350 chip is the Double Quarter Pounder & Fries to the RP2040's Double Cheeseburger and can have one or more RISC-V burgers instead of either of the M33 ARMs, to stretch the metaphor. In addition to the modern M33 ARM cores, there are sides of: more PIO capability, a variety of low power states for sipping electrons, a whole security system and some sprinklings of specialist digital video circuits to offload DVI/HDMI output. You can expect a tasty boost in performance - our "real world" MicroPython tests are running up to 2x faster compared to RP2040, and floating point number crunching in C/C is up to 20x faster. The extra on-chip RAM will make a big difference when performing memory intensive operations (such as working with higher resolution displays) and even more can be added thanks to external PSRAM support. RP2350 comes in two flavours - A (standard) and B (all the pins). The B chip has a stonking 48 usable GPIO pins, including 8 ADCs and 24 PWMs, and features on some of our new products.
