Pimoroni Explorer – Board Only

SKU: PIM720 Brand: Pimoroni

An electronic adventure playground for physical computing, built around the RP2350 chip. Includes a 2.8" LCD screen, a speaker, a mini breadboard, and...

$87.20 AUD, inc GST

$79.27 AUD, exc GST

Available with a lead time
Expect dispatch between Feb 12 and Feb 17

Quantity Discounts:

6-12 $76.89 (exc GST)
12+ $75.31 (exc GST)

An electronic adventure playground for physical computing, built around the RP2350 chip. Includes a 2.8" LCD screen, a speaker, a mini breadboard, and much more!

Our Explorer lets you play with circuits, build science experiments and prototype tiny robots and inventions. Pimoroni has incorporated tinkering essentials like:

a convenient mini breadboard for wiring up components
servo headers
analog 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. Pimoroni has 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.

Starter kit contains

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
Full kit list coming soon!

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)

Connecting Breakouts

If your breakout has a Qw/ST connector on board, you can plug it straight in with a JST-SH to JST-SH cable, which can be then coupled with a Qw/ST to Breakout Garden adaptor.

Breakouts currently compatible with our C++/MicroPython build

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.

Click here to view all things RP2350!

Product Comments

Exact shipping can be calculated on the view cart page (no login required).

Products that weigh more than 0.5 KG may cost more than what's shown (for example, test equipment, machines, >500mL liquids, etc).

We deliver Australia-wide with these options (depends on the final destination - you can get a quote on the view cart page):

$3+ for Stamped Mail (typically 10+ business days, not tracked, only available on selected small items)
$7+ for Standard Post (typically 6+ business days, tracked)
$11+ for Express Post (typically 2+ business days, tracked)
Pickup - Free! Only available to customers who live in the Newcastle region (must order online and only pickup after we email to notify you the order is ready). Orders placed after 2PM may not be ready until the following business day.

Non-metro addresses in WA, NT, SA & TAS can take 2+ days in addition to the above information.

Some batteries (such as LiPo) can't be shipped by Air. During checkout, Express Post and International Methods will not be an option if you have that type of battery in your shopping cart.

International Orders - the following rates are for New Zealand and will vary for other countries:

$12+ for Pack and Track (3+ days, tracked)
$16+ for Express International (2-5 days, tracked)

If you order lots of gear, the postage amount will increase based on the weight of your order.

Our physical address (here's a PDF which includes other key business details):

Unit 18, 132 Garden Grove Parade
Adamstown
NSW, 2289
Australia

Take a look at our customer service page if you have other questions such as "do we do purchase orders" (yes!) or "are prices GST inclusive" (yes they are!). We're here to help - get in touch with us to talk shop.

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