Pimoroni Explorer
Our Explorer lets you play with circuits, build science experiments and prototype tiny robots and inventions. We’ve incorporated tinkering essentials like:
- A convenient mini breadboard for wiring up components
- Servo headers
- Analogue inputs
- A built-in speaker for making beeps and boops
- Plenty of general-purpose inputs/outputs
- Connectors for attaching crocodile leads
- Qw/ST connectors for attaching I2C breakouts
Next to all that lot, there’s a vibrant 320 x 240 pixel IPS LCD screen surrounded by six chunky tactile buttons so you can easily monitor and control what your project is doing. It’s all mounted on a nice, sturdy baseboard that’s printed with a fancy full-colour silkscreen. We’ve also included some little legs, so you can have it propped up at an angle as well as lying flat, and there’s a battery connector on the back so you can keep things portable.
You can buy a Pico Explorer board on its own or as part of a Starter Kit, which also contains a whole bunch of fun components to start tinkering with.
Features
- Powered by RP2350B (Dual Arm Cortex M33 running at up to 150MHz with 520KB of SRAM)
- 16MB of QSPI flash supporting XiP
- 2.8” IPS LCD screen (320 x 240 pixels)
- Driver IC: ST7789V
- Luminance: 250 cd/m2
- Active area: 43.2 x 57.5mm
- USB-C connector for programming and power
- Mini breadboard
- Piezo speaker
- 6x user-controllable switches
- Reset and boot buttons
- 6x crocodile clip terminals
- 4x 3-pin servo outputs
- 6x GPIO and 4x ADC easy access headers, plus 3.3V power and grounds
- 2x Qw/ST (Qwiic/STEMMA QT) connector
- 2-pin JST-PH connector for adding a battery
- Lanyard slot!
- Includes 2x desktop stand feet
- Fully-assembled (no soldering required)
- Programmable with C/C++ or MicroPython
- Dimensions: approx 107mm x 85mm x 16mm (H x W x D, assembled)
Package Contents
Board Only
- 1x Pimoroni Explorer
Starter Kit
- Pimoroni Explorer
- Pimoroni Super Sensor Suite – a fancy new all-in-one Qw/ST stick for environmental, light and movement sensing (featuring BME280, LTR559 and LSM6DS3TR-C)
- A hand-picked assortment of components to tinker with – think LEDs, pots, switches, servos, wheels
- Jumper jerky and other cables to connect everything up
