First Look at the Adafruit Feather RP2040 – Great Pico Alternative?

This video gives you a first look at the Feather RP2040 board from Adafruit. This board is a great alternative to the Raspberry Pi Pico for projects where you need some extra features! The Feather RP2040 uses the Raspberry Pi RP2040 microcontroller and has 8MB of on board flash storage and a USB-C connector. It also features a user programmable RGB Neopixel LED on the topside of the board. It has an on-board LiPo charger which can charge 3.7 or 4.2 volt LiPo batteries at up to 200mA. In many ways it acts just like the Raspberry Pi Pico, just with far more features - including a reset button! It measures in at 50.8 x 22.8 x 7mm.

Programming the Feather RP2040 is exactly the same as programming the Pico. Just press the boot select button whilst plugging the USB-C cable in and drag and drop the UF2 file onto the Feather RP2040. It will then reboot and run your program! It can also be programmed in MicroPython and CircuitPython.

Let me know in the comments if you would like to see some projects featuring this board!

The Feather RP2040 is available from Adafruit here: https://www.adafruit.com/product/4884

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