The Cyntech Raspberry Pi Split+ breakout board has been designed for the Raspberry Pi B+ and uses a classic T shaped board which keeps the ribbon cable neatly away from the breadboard. All 40 of the Pi's GPIO connector pins are carried to the breakout board and the 3.3V and 5V supplies are also on the wings to link directly to the breadboard's standard supply rails. It is supplied as a kit of parts and will require soldering before use.
Make some noise with this high quality stereo I2S audio add-on board for your Raspberry Pi Pico, with amplified headphone AND un-amplified line level outputs!
Pico Audio Pack uses its PCM5100A DAC to output up to 32-bit, 384kHz stereo audio along its 3.5mm line out connector, ready for plugging into an external amp or powered speakers. If you're after something a little louder for your ears, it can also pump out amplified stereo audio from its 3.5mm headphone jack.
You could generate interesting noises with code on your Pico to output into a lo-fi synth, or hook your Pico up to another device and use it as a custom USB sound card.
Features:
PCM5100A stereo DAC
PAM8908JER stereo headphone amp
3.5mm stereo headphone jack connector
3.5mm stereo line out jack connector
Switch to adjust headphone amp gain (low / high)
Pre-soldered female headers for attaching to Pico
Compatible with Raspberry Pi Pico
Fully assembled
No soldering required (as long as your Pico has header pins attached)
Dimensions: approx. 53 x 29 x 11mm (L x W x H, including headers and audio jacks)
Programmable with C/C++
Please note that the Pico Audio Pack only currently works with the C/C++ Pico SDK! Pimoroni have Micro Python support planned, but it is not available yet. Your Pico will need to have male headers soldered to it (with the pins pointing downwards) to attach to add-on boards.
Quadruplicate your GPIO pins and attach up to four add-ons to a single Raspberry Pi Pico with the formidable Pico Decker expander board!
Struggling to choose between Pico add-ons? Mix and match up an epic stack of functionality and plug in up to four Pico Packs or Bases at once, or use the four sets of fully labelled male GPIO pins to easily attach other devices, jumper wires or circuitry - very useful for prototyping.
Also included are some little rubber feet to keep everything solid, four M2.5 mounting holes and some particularly whimsical Routemaster bus inspired artwork on the back.
One landing area with labelled female headers for attaching to your Pico
Four landing areas with labelled (mirrored) male headers for attaching add-ons
4x M2.5 mounting holes
4x rubber feet
Compatible with Raspberry Pi Pico
99% assembled - just need to stick on the feet!
No soldering required
Dimensions: approx 148 x 52 x 13mm (L x W x H, including feet and headers)
Please note: your Pico will need to have male headers soldered to it (with the pins pointing downwards) to attach to add-on boards.
A vibrant 1.14in. IPS LCD screen for your Raspberry Pi Pico, with four useful buttons and a RGB LED!
We've sourced a new LCD screen especially for our Pico Display Pack - it's a lovely, bright 18-bit capable 240 x 135 pixel IPS display and fits the Pico perfectly. We've surrounded it with four tactile buttons so you can easily interface your Pico with your human fingers and an RGB LED that you can use as an indicator, for notifications or just for adding extra rainbows.
Pico Display lets you turn a Pico into a compact user interface device for a bigger project, capable of giving instructions, displaying readouts and even incorporating elaborate nested menus. If you'd rather use your Pico as a standalone device you could make a little rotating slide-show of images, display beautiful graphs from sensor data or build your own Tamagotchi or matchbox sized text adventure game.
Features:
1.14in. 240 x 135 pixel IPS LCD screen
4x tactile buttons
RGB LED
Pre-soldered female headers for attaching to Pico
Compatible with Raspberry Pi Pico
Fully assembled
No soldering required (as long as your Pico has header pins attached)
Dimensions: approx. 53 x 25 x 9mm (L x W x H)
Screen usable area: approx 25 x 15mm (L x W)
C/C++ and MicroPython libraries
Your Pico will need to have male headers soldered to it (with the pins pointing downwards) to attach to add-on boards.
Transform your Raspberry Pi Pico into a electronic adventure playground packed with physical computing goodies including an LCD screen, motor drivers, a mini breadboard, and much more!
Pico Explorer lets you play with circuits, build science experiments, prototype tiny robots and inventions and, most importantly, Figure Out How It All Works. With incorporated tinkering essentials like a mini breadboard, motor drivers, ADC inputs, a built in speaker, general purpose inputs/outputs, switches, and two Breakout Garden slots you can add on a couple of our wide range of Pimoroni break-outs.
It has a 240 x 240 IPS LCD screen with four tactile buttons so you can easily monitor and control what your project is doing. It's all wrapped up in a nice, sturdy baseboard with a pleasingly compact footprint which won't involve nearly as many trailing wires as if you were experimenting with a traditional breadboard setup. Boo wires, yay Pico Explorer!
Our comprehensive MicroPython and C++ libraries will let you control every aspect of the board like a digital maestro. It's great for beginners, advanced users, and people who awkwardly sit somewhere in the middle and cannot be placed into a simple demographic bucket - we know who you are.
We've really crammed all the functionality we could into this board - quite a few of us were lucky enough to have all-in-one electronic circuit kits when we were small and so we jumped at the chance to put together a bang up-to-date version.
Features:
Pico Explorer Base
Piezo speaker
1.54in. IPS LCD screen (240 x 240)
Four user-controllable switches
Two Half-Bridge motor drivers (with over current indicator LED)
Easy access GPIO and ADC pin headers
Two Breakout Garden I2C sockets*
Mini breadboard
Rubber feet
Compatible with Raspberry Pi Pico
No soldering required (as long as your Pico has header pins attached)
Dimensions: approx. 117 x 63 x 20mm (L x W x H, assembled)
C/C++ and MicroPython libraries
Please note, your Pico will need to have male headers soldered to it (with the pins pointing downwards) to attach to add-on boards.*Please note that C++/MicroPython driver support for break-outs is still a work in progress.
Double up your GPIO pins and attach two add-ons to a single Raspberry Pi Pico with the expansive Pico Omnibus!
Struggling to choose which Pico add-on to go for? Pico Omnibus lets you plug in two Pico Packs or Bases at once, or you can use the extra set of male GPIO pins to easily attach other devices, jumper wires or circuitry - very useful for prototyping.
With added useful labels to all three sets of connectors, you can be sure that all those lovely wires are going to the right places. There are also some little feet to keep everything solid.
One landing area with labelled female headers for attaching to your Pico
Two landing areas with labelled (mirrored) male headers for attaching add-ons
4x rubber feet Compatible with Raspberry Pi Pico
99% assembled - just need to stick on the feet!
Fully assembled
No soldering required
Dimensions: approx 94 x 52 x 12mm (L x W x H, including headers)
Please note: Your Pico will need to have male headers soldered to it (with the pins pointing downwards) to attach to the add-on board. The Pico Packs shown in the photo are not included.
A conveniently sized, labelled proto-board add-on for your Raspberry Pi Pico, perfect for permanently attaching your custom circuits!
With a 6 x 20 grid of 2.54mm spaced holes for easy soldering and labelled Pico pins so you know what's what, Pico Proto is perfect for when you're happy with your breadboard project and want to give it a secure, smart and compact long-term home.
Pico Proto doesn't come with any headers attached, so you will need to either solder it directly to your Pico's male header pins (for a permanent, but super slim sandwich) or solder it to some female header.
40x 2.54mm spaced holes for attaching to your Pico
120x 2.54mm spaced holes (6 x 20 grid) for attaching other things
Compatible with Raspberry Pi Pico
Dimensions: approx 51 x 25 x 1mm (L x W x H)
Please note: your Pico will need to have male headers soldered to it (with the pins pointing downwards) to attach to add-on boards.
Connect a glorious, squishy, 4x4 rainbow-illuminated keypad to your Raspberry Pi Pico - perfect for making a custom USB input device!
Scoring very highly in the Pimoroni "things on our desk that make people say ooo" rankings, RGB Keypad Base equips a Pico with an eye-catching 4 x 4 silicone keypad, fully loaded with addressable APA102 LEDs so that each key can be illuminated in any colour that your little unicorn heart desires.
It's all mounted on a sturdy base with rubber feet to keep it nice and level, with a handily labelled landing area for your Pico. We've broken out the full set of Pico pins to make it easy to connect up other hardware as well. Connect your Pico project to another computer via USB for a beautiful macro keypad or a tidy midi controller.
RGB Keypad Base would also work well in any project that would benefit from having fancy light up buttons as inputs - a code protected door lock perhaps, a disco dance floor for your fingers or a Simon Says style game with which to taunt your friends.
Features:
4 x 4 silicone keypad with conductive buttons
16x APA102 addressable RGB LEDs (see datasheet)
Keypad buttons are connected via a TCA9555 IO expander (I2C address: 0x20)
Labelled landing area with female headers for attaching your Pico, with broken out pins
Compatible with Raspberry Pi Pico
Some assembly required!
No soldering required (as long as your Pico has header pins attached)
Dimensions: approx 60 x 101 x 16mm (L x W x H, assembled)
C/C++ and MicroPython libraries
Includes:
1x Pico RGB Keypad Base
1x (reversible) square retainer plate
1x silicone keypad
M2 8mm bolts and nuts
4x rubber feet
Your Pico will need to have male headers soldered to it (with the pins pointing downwards) to attach to add-on boards.
A sparkly 17 x 7 grid of snugly packed, individually controllable white LEDs to bling up your Raspberry Pi Pico, accompanied by a quartet of useful buttons. Stop scrolling! And take a moment to appreciate the simplicity and elegance of a bright white LED, so often overlooked next to its flashy RGB cousins.
Pico Scroll Pack incorporates 119 white LEDs in a tidy 17 x 7 matrix, along with four tactile buttons for interacting with your Pico-based contraption. OK, you can start scrolling again. The brightness of each LED is individually controllable, and it's very nice for displaying graphs, scrolling messages, soothing snowfall animations or for visualising cellular automata. Shiny.
Features:
17 x 7 matrix of white LEDs (119 total)
Individual PWM brightness control of each LED
IS31FL3731 LED matrix driver chip, I2C address: 0x74
4x tactile buttons
Pre-soldered female headers for attaching to Pico
Compatible with Raspberry Pi Pico
Fully assembled
No soldering required (as long as your Pico has header pins attached)
Dimensions: approx. 65 x 25 x 10mm (L x W x H, including headers and buttons)
C/C++ and MicroPython libraries
Your Pico will need to have male headers soldered to it (with the pins pointing downwards) to attach to add-on boards.
A sparkly matrix of over a hundred fantabulous RGB LEDs for all your rainbow needs and some handy buttons - sized perfectly for the Raspberry Pi Pico!
The familiar Unicorn setup has been resized so that it fits nicely on the back of your Pico - with a tidy 7 x 16 matrix (that's 112 RGB LEDs!) it's surely the fanciest backpack going. The four tactile buttons can be used to switch between modes, as controls for simple games, or adjusting brightness.
It's possible to control the colour and brightness of each LED individually so you can use it to display animations, text, simple images, and more. Make a mini photo FX lamp, a smart status light for Zoom, use it to display colourful scrolling messages on your fridge, or just enjoy some pretty animations.
Features:
16 x 7 matrix of RGB LEDs (112 total)
Individual colour/brightness control of each LED
4x tactile buttons
Pre-soldered female headers for attaching to Pico
Compatible with Raspberry Pi Pico
Fully assembled
No soldering required (as long as your Pico has header pins attached)
Dimensions: approx. 62 x 25 x 10mm (L x W x H, including headers and buttons)
C/C++ and MicroPython libraries
Please note that your Pico will need to have male headers soldered to it (with the pins pointing downwards) to attach to add-on boards.
The Mini Black HAT Hack3r is for those occasions, much like attending the opera, when you have to break out your HAT. This nifty little tool allows you to access all of the GPIO pins whilst also running a HAT, perfect for debugging HATs and also combining HATs with other circuits.
Comes fully assembled
HAT & pHAT landing areas with PCB standoffs
Includes 40 pin GPIO ribbon cable
All GPIO pins labelled with function, BCM pin number, physical pin number
Get Pi power from 3 to 16V with a SHIM! This Wide Input SHIM gives you the ability to use a range of different power supplies with you Raspberry Pi, including the ubiquitous 12V barrel jack power supplies. The super-slim design of the SHIM means you can solder it straight to your Pi's pins yet still use HATs and pHATs on top. The SHIM will provide a 5V 2A output (through the GPIO to the Pi) at input voltages of 5V to 16V. Current drops to 1.5A at 4V, and 1A at 3V. For input voltages there is either a centre positive 3.5mm jack connector or two broken-out + and - pins on the SHIM. There is also a short male to female adaptor cable included so that you can use the common 5.5mm jacks too. Also included is a 3.5mm male to tinned wires cable, so you can attach it directly to, for example, a bench power supply, or to solder it into a project.
Super-small SHIM-format board
0.8mm Thickness PCB
Can be used with HATs and pHATs
3.5mm OD Barrel jack connector (centre positive)
Adaptor cables included
Output 5V 2A
Input 3 to 16V
Reverse voltage protection
EN (enable) pin to switch off output voltage (pull to ground)
For those of you who don't want to solder, or are unable to due to location or other circumstances, then you absolutely have got to have this solderless GPIO header kit - and a hammer! With just a few gentle taps with your hammer and bob's your uncle, you header is securely attached to your Pi Zero or pHAT, there's absolutely no soldering required. Included in the kit are both male and female headers and a nifty installation jig that takes away the need for precise accuracy when you are adjusting something with a 4lb lump hammer (please don't use a 4lb, or any, lump hammer). The acrylic installation jig has two base pieces, onto which your Pi Zero or pHAT sits. Two steel nuts then secure the Pi/pHAT onto the base, then put the header in place, then the top piece of the jig and carefully tap with a hammer so that the header securing pins pass through the PCB holes. The securing pins on the headers have retaining nubbins that grip tightly into the holes on the PCB. It is strongly recommended that you use the installation jig! The female headers are simpler to insert than the male headers as you can hammer straight onto the plastic of the header, but the male ones are particularly tricky without the jig. Please note: we can't be held responsible for any damage that you may cause to your Pi Zero, pHAT, fingers, or headers while fitting them. If you follow the guide carefully then you should be fine.
The Pico HAT Hacker is an even smaller version of the Black HAT Hack3r. It gives you full access to all 40 pins on your Pi, broken out at the top. The PCB is just 0.8mm, same as the SHIMs, so it can be soldered right onto the PI, with still enough room on a standard header to fit a HAT or pHAT on top. All the pins on the HAT hacker are clearly labelled, with BCM pin numbering on one side and descriptive labels on the other side that show I2C, UART, SPI, PWM, and I2S pins are. The board can be soldered either way up, depending on which labels are the most useful to you.
Compatible with Raspberry Pi 3, 2, B+, A+, Zero, and Zero W
This Button SHIM for the Raspberry Pi adds physical interaction and visual feedback to your Pi project, making the perfect controller for hardware like Unicorn pHAT or the Four Digit Display pHAT, enhancing many projects and designs. Button SHIM gives you five handy, physical buttons and an RGB status LED, and it's HAT and pHAT-compatible! The SHIM-format boards are designed to slip neatly onto your Pi's GPIO pins and still allow you to use HATs and pHATs at the same time. Or, alternatively, solder the included female header onto Button SHIM and use it as a standalone board. The buttons and status LED stick out from the top edge of your Pi, making them easy to access. There is a one-line installer to install the Python library. There are also example programs that show you how to use Button SHIM to control your Pi's audio, how to control the status LED, and how to mimic key presses. To install the software, open a terminal and type curl https://get.pimoroni.com/buttonshim | bash to run the one-line-installer.
Compatible with Raspberry Pi 3, 2, B+, A+, Zero, and Zero W
The RasPiO Duino is a small plug-on board that has functionality similar to that of an Arduino, but is programmable from the Raspberry Pi. Once it has been programmed it can be removed from the Pi and used on its own, or can be used interactively with the Pi. There is a 72-point prototyping area and the Pi's GPIO ports are also broken out onto the Duino. All the ports on the Duino are clearly labelled. Each of the useful pins on the ATmega are broken out to a cluster of three holes. Male and female headers are provided, so you can connect whatever you like to your RasPiO Duino. The Duino comes as a kit and will take about 30 minutes to build, with some soldering required. Once you have built it, software programming should take another 15 minutes and then you are ready to go. For programming, there are three jumpers to connect the microcontroller’s SCLK, MISO and MOSI directly to the Pi’s corresponding pins. For two-way serial communication with the Pi, if you need it, you can add two more jumpers to connect the Pi and ATmega’s Rx and Tx serial ports. RasPiO Duino uses the ATmega 328P-PU which is the same microcontroller chip as both Arduino Uno and Gertboard. It has a 6 channel analog to digital converter (ADC) and 14 digital I/O pins, 6 of which can also be used for PWM. To make things easier, and to get lots of information on the Duino an excellent full user guide and Arduino programming instruction manual has been produced: "Learn Arduino Programming with RasPiO Duino" This book contains all the information you need to get into Arduino programming on the pi, such as: Brief technical information A brief build guide (with links to in-depth assembly instructions) Comprehensive software installation instructions Lots of example sketches and walk-throughs showing how to use the capabilities of the board Links to the RasPiO Duino github repository An easy-install script for the sketches High-quality diagrams and photographs 47 Pages of educational inspiration, discovery and fun
Low cost, easy introduction to Arduino programming on the Raspberry Pi
For beginners and more advanced users
Supplied as a kit (some soldering required)
Runs on 3V3 12MHz
You can download the programming manual here For instructions on assembling the kit see here. There are video tutorials to help you learn programming, see here.
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