A hilariously oversized but fully functional Raspberry Pi Pico 2 for demos, japes and shenanigans.
Psst, haven't you heard? Megacontrollers are the new microcontrollers. Large is the new little. Chonk is the new smol. Pico Jumbo is a giant (3.5x scale) Raspberry Pi Pico 2 that has the following advantages over the standard sized one:
- The holes and castellations in the ridiculous oversized pads are great for connecting up crocodile/alligator clips - very useful for demo-ing in a classroom, workshop or on the Youtubes.
- It has the ultimate best number one all time no notes Pico upgrade - a reset button.
- Things that are the wrong scale are inherently very funny to us.
You can buy a Pico Jumbo on its own or in a starter kit along with a selection of pleasantly chunky components, so you can experience the pure childlike joy of blinking a big ol' LED or wiring up a big ol' button.
Features
- Raspberry Pi Pico 2 Aboard
- CPU: Dual Arm Cortex-M33 or dual RISC-V Hazard3 processors @150MHz
- Memory: 520 KB on-chip SRAM; 4 MB on-board QSPI flash
- Powered and programmable via micro-USB
- Connect up components to the oversized pads with alligator clips!
- It's big
- Really big
- You might think it's a long way down the road to the shops but that's peanuts compared to Pico Jumbo
- Terrible for embedding in devices
- Reset button ????
- Fully-assembled (no soldering required)
- Includes metal legs for display
- Programmable with C/C++ or MicroPython
- Measurements: 180 mm x 73.5 mm x 5.5mm (L x W x D, approx)
Starter Kit contains
- Pico Jumbo
- Crocodile leads
- 10x big (10mm) LEDs
- 10x big resistors
- An arcade button
- A nice clicky on/off switch
- Micro-USB cable
Notes
- Perhaps you'd like to 3D print yourself some oversized pin headers and an oversized micro USB plug to go with your oversized microcontroller?
About RP2350
The RP2350 chip is the Double Quarter Pounder & Fries to the RP2040's Double Cheeseburger and can have one or more RISC-V burgers instead of either of the M33 ARMs, to stretch the metaphor.
In addition to the modern M33 ARM cores, there are sides of: more PIO capability, a variety of low power states for sipping electrons, a whole security system and some sprinklings of specialist digital video circuits to offload DVI/HDMI output.
You can expect a tasty boost in performance - our "real world" MicroPython tests are running up to 2x faster compared to RP2040, and floating point number crunching in C/C++ is up to 20x faster. The extra on-chip RAM will make a big difference when performing memory intensive operations (such as working with higher resolution displays) and even more can be added thanks to external PSRAM support.
RP2350 comes in two flavours - A (standard) and B (all the pins). The B chip has a stonking 48 usable GPIO pins, including 8 ADCs and 24 PWMs, and features on some of our new products.
What's in the box?
1 x Pico Jumbo (Pico 2 Aboard)
Note: Stock is currently available in South Africa for national shipping!
