[Geek] Free Raspberry Pi Pico Device for Geeks Team

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Call for Bright Ideas

We are calling for bright event ideas regarding handicrafts & hobbyist electric projects such as tiny robots, micro web servers, smart LED clocks, etc.

To encourage our talent geeks, we are giving out %(red)[FIVE (5) free Raspberry Pi Pico RP2040 core board] with USB Type-C connectivity for interested geek members.

Miscellaneous

Two breadboards and some wirings are also available.

Vision

With such basic devices, you can already start your embedded development and learning on MicroPython. To start, read the introductory tutorials for Pico µCs and MicroPython.

Hero Geeks

We have the following hero geeks who are enthusiastic to this initiative.

Name	Programme	Intake	Collected	Interests & Goals

Raspberry Pi Pico Introduction

Raspberry Pi Pico is a low-cost, high-performance microcontroller board with flexible digital interfaces. Key features include:

• RP2040 microcontroller chip designed by Raspberry Pi in the United Kingdom
• Dual-core Arm Cortex M0+ processor, flexible clock running up to 133 MHz
• 264KB of SRAM, and 2MB of on-board flash memory
• USB 1.1 with device and host support
• Low-power sleep and dormant modes
• Drag-and-drop programming using mass storage over USB
• 26 × multi-function GPIO pins
• 2 × SPI, 2 × I2C, 2 × UART, 3 × 12-bit ADC, 16 × controllable PWM channels
• Accurate clock and timer on-chip
• Temperature sensor
• Accelerated floating-point libraries on-chip
• 8 × Programmable I/O (PIO) state machines for custom peripheral support

Design References

Pinout and Design Files

Small Projects

• Lief Koepsel's blog
• ELM Chan's µC projects