Robotics/Sensors/Automation

Description:

Cytron Maker Pi RP2040 features the first microcontroller designed by Raspberry Pi - RP2040, embedded on a robot controller board. This board comes with dual channel DC motor driver, 4 servo motor ports and 7 Grove I/O connectors, ready for your next DIY robot / motion control project. Now you can build robot, while trying out the new RP2040 chip.

The DC motor driver onboard is able to control 2x brushed DC motors or 1x bipolar/unipolar stepper motor rated from 3.6V to 6V, providing up to 1A current per channel continuously. The built-in Quick Test buttons and motor output LEDs allow functional test of the motor driver in a quick and convenient way, without the need of writing any code. Vmotor for both DC and servo motors depends on the input voltage supplied to the board.

Features:

• Powered by Rapberry Pi RP2040
  • Dual-core Arm Cortex-M0+ processor
  • 264KB internal RAM
  • 2MB of Flash memory
  • the exact same specifications with Raspberry Pi Pico
• Robot controller board
  • 4x Servo motors
  • 2x DC motors with quick test buttons
• Versatile power circuit
  • Automatic power selection: USB 5V, LiPo (1-cell) or Vin (3.6-6V)
  • Built-in 1-cell LiPo/Li-Ion charger (over-charged & over-discharged protection)
  • Power on/off switch
• 13x Status indicator LEDs for GPIO pins
• 1x Piezo buzzer with mute switch
• 2x Push button
• 2x RGB LED (Neopixel)
• 7x Grove ports (flexible I/O options: digital, analog, I2C, SPI, UART...)
• Preloaded with CircuitPython by default
• Mouting holes
  • 4x 4.8mm mounting hole (LEGO® pin compatible)
  • 6x M3 screw hole

• 1x Maker Pi RP2040
• 4x Grove to Female Header Cable
• 1x Mini Screwdriver
• 1x Silicone Rubber Feet (Pack of 4)

Resources:

• Getting Started with Maker Pi RP2040 & Example Code
• Maker Pi RP2040 Datasheet
• Maker Pi RP2040 Schematic
• Maker Pi RP2040 VS. Maker Pi Pico comparison table
• CircuitPython for Maker Pi RP2040
• 3D CAD
• Getting Started with RP2040 (Raspberry Pi official page)
• RP2040 Datasheet

There are three ways to supply power to the Maker Pi RP2040 - via USB (5V) socket, with a single cell LiPo/Li-Ion battery or through the VIN (3.6-6V) terminals. However only one power source is needed to power up both controller board and motors at a time. Power supply from all these power sources can all be controlled with the power on/off switch onboard.




Maker Pi RP2040 features all the goodness of Cytron's Maker series products. It too has lots of LEDs useful for troubleshooting (& visual effects), is able to make quite some noise with the onboard piezo buzzer and comes with push buttons ready to detect your touch.