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