A Raspberry Pi Pico ‘pal’ we’re knocking round in our CAD software program at present « Adafruit Industries – Makers, hackers, artists, designers and engineers!

every time we begin making add-ons we at all times do a protoboard first, and so it’s that that is adafruit’s first design for a Raspi Pico add-on. it’s the best and ‘least expensive’ to begin – only a through-hole PCB with a spot for a THM reset button and a few pads for making a customized wiring jig. there’s not likely sufficient area for a DIP chip plus holes on both facet so we went with simply strips of pads, with energy buses, a floor bus, and all of the GPIO damaged out. we are able to use this as we design extra boards! now all we want is a reputation for what to name these pico friends… keep tuned, we’ve some concepts 🙂

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