Development board introduction

2023-11-01

The Banana Pi Pico series is a low-power microcontroller development board designed for the Internet of Things.

BPI-Pico-RP2040 is a microcontroller development board launched by Banana Pi equipped with RP2040 chip. Its most notable feature is to add a Onboard WS2812 color LED; replace the 3-Pin DEBUG interface with a SH 1mm 4-Pin socket, which can be connected with Qwiic & STEMMA QT or any possible peripherals; replace the micro-USB socket with a USB Type-C socket , supports reversible insertion, and is compatible with the USB Type-C cable of most modern smartphones, no additional purchase is required.

Key Features

  • Dual-core ARM Cortex M0+ CPU cores (up to 133 MHz)
  • 264K SRAM
  • 2MB Flash
  • 26 available GPIO pins, 4 of which support ADC analog input
  • Peripherals:
    • 2 x UARTs
    • 2 × SPI controllers
    • 2 × I2C controllers
    • 16 × PWM channels
    • 1 × USB 1.1 controller and PHY, supporting host and device
    • 8 × PIO state machines
  • 1 x LED
  • 1 x WS2812 LED
  • 1 × SH 1mm 4-Pin socket
  • 1 × USB Type-C socket

hardware

Interface diagram

Hardware Dimensions

BPI-Pico-RP2040 Size Chart
Pin spacing 2.54mm
Mounting hole spacing 17.6mm/ 11.4mm
Mounting hole size Inner diameter 2.1mm/outer diameter 3.4mm
Motherboard Dimensions 11.4 × 55.8(mm)
Board thickness 1.2mm

The pin spacing is compatible with universal boards (perforated boards, dot matrix boards), breadboards, and can be directly attached to other PCBs for easy debugging.

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