Overall Evaluation Board for Raspberry Pi Pico
Above all, the Pico-Eval-Board is a full evaluation solution designed for Raspberry Pi Pico. With 3.5inch 65K colorful LCD display in addition to the misc helpful onboard components, this evaluation board allows you to try almost every on-chip peripheral of the RP2040, eliminating the messy wiring. Therefore it is an ideal choice for users to fast get started with the Raspberry Pi Pico, as well as the RP2040 chip.
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This board includes
- Standard Raspberry Pi Pico header supports Raspberry Pi Pico series boards
- 3.5inch resistive touch screen, 65K colorful, bringing clear and vivid display effect
- Standard 3.5mm audio jack, therefore you can use headphones or other audio peripherals
- Micro SD card slot through the SDIO interface, faster access speed than SPI interface
- Integrates battery header and recharge circuit, allows it to keep running without wired power supply
- In addition, other rich resources like a buzzer, photoresistor, and RGB LED…
What’s On Board
| Rapsberry Pi Pico header for direct attaching to Raspberry Pi Pico | ETA6096 battery recharger, 1A recharging current |
| LCD connector for connecting the 3.5inch IPS LCD | ICM20948 9-axis motion sensor, allows posture sensing |
| Mirco USB connector CP2102 communication or battery recharge | LSD0204 voltage level translator, ensuring safe communication between chips on different operating voltage |
| 3.5mm audio jack headphone interface | XPT2046 resistive touch controller |
| Micro SD card slot using SDIO interface, faster access speed | W2812B RGB LED, so cool |
| PH2.0 battery header for connecting 3.7V Li-po battery | Passive buzzer controllable sound frequency |
| CP2102 USB to UART converter | User key a user-defined key, connects to GP2 |
| SP0503 diode for protecting the chip from ESD | Reset key Pico reset |
| PCM5101A stereo audio DAC chip, supports analog audio output | Photoresistor converting light intensity to voltage signal, measuring light intensity |
| 74HC4040 counter chip for clock frequency division | 74HC04D inverter chip |
| 74HC4094 serial to parallel data converter | |
| Indicators PWR: power indicator TXD: CP2102 UART TX RXD: CP2102 UART RX |
Download Demo codes
Open terminal and run the following command：
wget -P ~/pico/ https://www.waveshare.net/w/upload/f/fc/Pico-ResTouch-LCD-X_X_Code.zip
cd ~/pico
unzip Pico-ResTouch-LCD-X_X_Code.zip
What can I do with this?
After running the demo code, it first displays some characters, patterns, and then displays pictures, and finally displays the touchpad function.
Therefore, if you need characters of different sizes and fonts, you can use the font extraction software provided in the materials to create your own font library
In fact you can also Image2Lcd picture modulus software to convert images of different sizes different formats to array data, then use our written function display
Above all you can load images off your SD card. For instance you can create fun, interactive games.
The Raspberry Pi Pico is also compatible with micropython, therefore it has never been so easy to write your own code.
Above all, there a tons of libraries and code examples available for you. In other words, the only hard part left is opening your imagination and finding the right project for you.
Micropython
MicroPython is a software implementation of a programming language largely compatible with Python 3, written in C, that is optimized to run on a microcontroller. It is a full Python compiler and runtime that runs on the microcontroller’s
Getting started with Raspberry Pi Pico
Raspberry Pi Pico Datasheet – An RP2040-based microcontroller board.
Getting started with Raspberry Pi Pico – C/C++ development with Raspberry Pi Pico and other RP2040-based microcontroller boards
Get Started with MicroPython on Raspberry Pi Pico
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