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# Pimoroni Explorer – Board Only

**Type:** Product page · **SKU:** PIM720 · **Brand:** [Pimoroni](https://core-electronics.com.au/brands/pimoroni-australia) · **GTIN:** 769894025826
**Page:** https://core-electronics.com.au/pimoroni-explorer-board-rp2350-lcd-breadboard.html ([markdown](https://core-electronics.com.au/pimoroni-explorer-board-rp2350-lcd-breadboard.html.md))

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

## Pricing

- **Price:** $81.10 (inc GST) — $73.73 AUD, exc GST
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## Availability & dispatch

- Available with a lead time — expect dispatch between Aug 18 and Aug 24.

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## Description

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](https://core-electronics.com.au/alligator-test-leads-multicolored-10-pack.html)
- Qw/ST connectors for attaching [I2C breakouts](https://core-electronics.com.au/breakout-garden-hat.html)
 
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](https://core-electronics.com.au/piicodev-cable-100mm.html), which can be then coupled with a [Qw/ST to Breakout Garden adaptor](https://core-electronics.com.au/pimoroni-stemma-qt-qwiic-piicodev-to-breakout-garden-adapter.html).

- [Breakouts currently compatible with our C++/MicroPython build](https://github.com/pimoroni/pimoroni-pico#breakouts)
 
**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!](https://core-electronics.com.au/raspberry-pi/pico/third-party-raspberry-pi-microcontroller-boards.html)

## Images

- [Product image 1](https://core-electronics.com.au/media/catalog/product/P/I/PIM720-3.jpg)