Description
If you want to jump in fast into crafting an electronic project, without needing to solder or even just a breadboard, Pimoroni's Inventor 2350 W gives you a 'bento box' of delicious popular treats with a Pico 2 W already built in for instant gratification.
The Inventor is a multi-talented board that does (almost) everything you might want a robot, prop or other mechanical thing to do. Drive a couple of standard motors (or fancy motors with encoders)? Yep! Add up to six servos? Sure? Attach a little speaker so you can make noise? No problem! It's also got a battery connector, so you can power your inventions from AA/AAA or LiPo batteries, and carry your miniature automaton/animated top hat/treasure chest that growls at your enemies around with you, untethered.
You also get a ton of options for hooking up sensors and other gubbins - there's two Qw/ST connectors for attaching breakouts, three ADC pins for adding analog sensors, photoresistors and such, and three spare digital GPIO you could use for LEDs, buttons or digital sensors. Speaking of LEDs, we've also somehow managed to fit in 12 addressable LEDs (AKA Neopixels) - one for each servo and GPIO/ADC channel (or just use the whole lot for making rainbows, that's fine too).
Best of all though, is the brains of the outfit - the onboard Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W, which will give your creations 2.4GHz wireless connectivity. Use it to trigger your mechanical friends to do their thing remotely, or hook your robotic canary up to an API and report the air quality in your neighbourhood.
Since It uses Pico 2 W and RP2350 as the base board, there's plenty of support for programming it in Arduino, Pico SDK, MicroPython, CircuitPython or anything else that the Pico 2 W can wrangle!
Technical Details
Specifications:
- Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W Aboard
- Dual Arm Cortex M33 running at up to 150Mhz with 520kB of SRAM
- 4MB of QSPI flash supporting XiP
- Powered and programmable by USB micro-B
- 2.4GHz 802.11n wireless LAN and Bluetooth 5.2
- Dual H-Bridge motor driver (DRV8833C)
- Per motor current limiting (425mA) *
- Per motor direction indicator LEDs **
- 2 JST-SH connectors (6 pin) for attaching motors with encoders (Pinout: M+, M-, 3v3, A, B, GND)
- 4 pin 0.1" connector for attaching two motors without encoders or a single small stepper
- 2 pin (Picoblade-compatible) connector for attaching speaker
- JST-PH (2 pin) connector for attaching battery (input voltage 2.5V - 5.5V***)
- 6 sets of header pins for connecting 3 pin hobby servos
- 6 sets of header pins for GPIO (3 of which are ADC capable)
- 12 x addressable RGB LEDs/Neopixels
- User button
- Reset button
- 2 x Qw/ST connectors for attaching breakouts
- Fully assembled
- No soldering required
- Programmable with MicroPython
For more details, click here Inventor 2350 W.
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