PicoSystem - Games Console

Once we'd decided to make a tiny, RP2040 powered dev board, of course the next logical step was to see if we could expand it into an adorable miniature games console. It's turning out pretty swanky, with a vibrant screen, nice tactile joypad and buttons and some shiny abstract artwork. More details to come soon!

Features

• Powered by RP2040!
• ARM Cortex M0+ running at up to 133Mhz
• 264kB of SRAM
• IPS LCD screen
• Joypad
• Buttons
• Lipo battery
• USB-C power

About the RP2040

The RP2040 microcontroller is a dual core ARM Cortex M0+ running at up to 133Mhz. It bundles in 264kB of SRAM, 30 multifunction GPIO pins (including a four channel 12-bit ADC), a heap of standard peripherals (I2C, SPI, UART, PWM, clocks, etc), and USB support.

One very exciting feature of the RP2040 microcontroller are the programmable IOs which allow you to execute custom programs that can manipulate GPIO pins and transfer data between peripherals - they can offload tasks that require high data transfer rates or precise timing that traditionally would have required a lot of heavy lifting from the CPU.