There has been a lot of discussion about the new Raspberry Pi Pico, as it comes with a powerful RP2040 chip and costs just $4 USD. Hence, Pico is an ideal choice for beginners due to its variety of applications at a very low cost. So, the applications have to be first prototyped before making permanent connections. As any mistake while making a connection can cost us the whole device.
Grove Shield for Pi Pico v1.0 supports quick prototyping before building permanent applications with Raspberry Pi Pico. The shield comes as the base on which the Pico board is assembled for increasing the connectivity and scope of usage of the Raspberry Pi Pico board, The Grove Shield for Pi Pico is a “plug-and-play” kind of shield which supports many types of Grove Connectors. This includes I2C, UART, digital and analog ports.
Key Features Of Grove Shield For Pi Pico
- Quick Prototyping with easy debugging function with plug and play feature for grove connectors and SWD pins.
- Dynamic connectivity with many peripherals. This includes 2 × I2C, 2 × UART, 3 × Digital, 3 ×Analog, SPI, and SWD Debug interface.
- No need for soldering as it has all pin led out. The plug-and-play Grove connectors support multiple data protocols, including IIC, UART, and analog or digital.
Demonstration Of Use Cases
The Grove Shield is just a component to explore the endless possibilities and applications that could be built using Raspberry Pi Pico. Thus there is a need for sensor components for prototyping specific use cases. If the prototype use case works properly, then an end-to-end product can be built from the same. Hence, the Grove Shield comes as a single board for $3.90 as well as for $44 which is a development kit that comes with temperature sensors, relays, LEDs, buttons, and an LCD screen all using the Grove connector standard.
Read more: QUICK PROTOTYPING WITH SEEED’S GROVE SHIELD FOR RASPBERRY PI PICO
