SparkFun Thing Plus - RP2040
The SparkFun Thing Plus - RP2040 is a low-cost, high performance board with flexible digital interfaces featuring the Raspberry Pi Foundation's RP2040.
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Product Overview
The SparkFun Thing Plus - RP2040 is a low-cost, high performance board with flexible digital interfaces featuring the Raspberry Pi Foundation's RP2040 microcontroller. Besides the Thing Plus or Feather footprint (with 18 GPIO pins), the board also includes an SD card slot, 16MB (128Mbit) flash memory, a JST single cell battery connector (with a charging circuit and fuel gauge sensor), an addressable WS2812 RGB LED, JTAG PTH pins, four (4-40 screw) mounting holes, and our signature Qwiic connector.
The RP2040 contains two ARM Cortex-M0+ processors (up to 133MHz) and features:
- 264kB of embedded SRAM in six banks
- 6 dedicated IO for SPI Flash (supporting XIP)
- 30 multifunction GPIO:
- Dedicated hardware for commonly used peripherals
- Programmable IO for extended peripheral support
- Four 12-bit ADC channels with internal temperature sensor (up to 0.5 MSa/s)
- USB 1.1 Host/Device functionality
The RP2040 is supported with both C/C++ and MicroPython cross-platform development environments, including easy access to runtime debugging. It has UF2 boot and floating-point routines baked into the chip. While the chip has a large amount of internal RAM, the board includes an additional 16MB of external QSPI flash memory to store program code.
Features & Specs
Documentation
- Schematic
- Eagle Files
- Board Dimensions
- Thing Plus - RP2040 Hookup Guide
- Compare Thing Plus Boards
- Software (SDK) Documentation:
- Online SDK Documentation
- Raspberry Pi Pico C/C++ SDK - A guide on the libraries and tools for C++ development on RP2040 microcontrollers
- Raspberry Pi Pico Python SDK - A guide on the MicroPython environment for RP2040 microcontrollers
- Hardware Component Information:
- Raspberry Pi RP2040 Datasheet
- 16MB Flash (W25Q128) Datasheet
- Low Dropout (LOD) Voltage Regulator (AP2112) Datasheet
- Linear Charge Management Controller (MCP73831) Datasheet
- RGB LED (WS2812C) Datasheet
- Fuel Gauge (MAX17048) Datasheet
- SparkFun Qwiic Connect System
- GitHub Hardware Repository
- Software Development Platforms for the RP2040:
- MicroPython
- Example code to accompany the Get Started with MicroPython on Raspberry Pi Pico book
- Pico C/C++ SDK
- Example codes
- Beta Libraries
- Example code for the beta libraries
- Tools and Resources:
- RP2040 Boot ROM - Souce code for the USB mass storage device emulation
- Picotool - Inspecting RP2040 binaries in BOOTSEL mode
- Debugging Probe Configuration
- OpenOCD Debugger
- pico-project-generator - GUI tool to automatically generate a Pico C/C++ SDK project
- UF2 Files- Just drag-and-drop onto your RP2040 board
- C/C++ Files:
- Blink binary
- Hello World binary
- MicroPython Files:
- MicroPython firmware (build date: 05-Feb-2021)
- Utility Files: microcontroller
- Debugging w/ picoprobe - Debugging with another RP2040 microcontroller
- Reset flash memory - Clears flash memory from board
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