RASPBERRY PI PICO

The Kitronik Autonomous Robotics Platform Pico, a fun and hands-on introduction to Robotics with the Raspberry Pi Pico. The Kitronik Autonomous Robotics Platform for Raspberry Pi Pico is a fun and hands-on introduction to buggy robotics. The easy to follow booklet provided with the kit guides you through all of the steps required for you to take control of your robot. The Robotics Platform has been designed to grow with you and provided additional servo and ultrasonic sensor connectors for more advanced projects. This buggy requires a Raspberry Pi Pico with pin headers attached.

The kit is supplied with the autonomous robotics platform chassis, 2 wheels and tyres, a Kitronik line-following sensor board, and an ultrasonic sensor. The kit requires no soldering and only minimal mechanical assembly. Fit the tyres to the wheels, push the wheels onto the pre-mounted motors and both the line following sensor and ultrasonic distance sensor plug straight into the board. Once put together, push the Raspberry Pi Pico into the onboard connector, add 4 x Alkaline AA batteries to the battery holders underneath and you are done. Your robot buggy is ready for instruction.

The included booklet guides you through every step of getting to know your robot. It contains a detailed assembly guide, info on preparing the Raspberry Pi Pico, instructions for installing an editor (Thonny), and instructions on how to write code for every feature of the Robotics Platform. No corner of the board is left unexplained. As well as the easy-to-follow getting started guide, Kitronik have also produced online tutorials which go into more detail on coding the key features of the board. The links to the tutorials can be found in the resources section at the foot of this page.

For those that like to modify their robot buggies, the buggy has 4 x threaded mounting points added to the chassis, 3 x M3 & 1 x M4. These mechanical fixing locations enable the addition of user-designed features, such as cosmetic chassis parts and/or additional robotic features, such as appendages. Kitronik have produced a dxf file showing the location and thread size of each of these mechanical fixing locations, it can be downloaded in the resources section below. The zip file also contains a jpg for those that don't have access to CAD or viewing software.

To help make programming the robot as simple as possible, Kitronik has developed a set of Micropython modules, which can be found here. More information on this can be found in the booklet supplied with the kit. If you aren't familiar with GIT, we've created an online beginners' guide to help you get up to speed. You can find the guide here (https://kitronik.co.uk/GitGuide).

Features:

A fun and hands-on introduction to buggy robotics.

The Robotics Platform has been designed to grow with you, start small then add complexity later.

The kit ships with a detailed guide booklet backed up with freely available online tutorials.

The autonomous robotics platform introduces the user to light, movement, and sensing so the robot can be as hands-on or hands-off as want it to be.

Program your buggy to react to the world around it.

Learn to code with MicroPython, using our simple-to-follow guides and the beginner-friendly Thonny editor.

Just add the Raspberry Pi Pico, some alkaline batteries, and some code and watch your buggy come to life!

This buggy is not supplied with a Pico, you can obtain a Raspberry Pi Pico here.

It also features 4 x threaded mounting points added to the chassis, 3 x M3 & 1 x M4.

Contents:

1 x Autonomous robotics buggy chassis PCB.

2 x Kitronik 5 spoke wheels and tyres.

1 x Kitronik line following sensor board.

1 x Ultrasonic Sensor.

Dimensions:

PCB Length: 126mm.

PCB Width: 80mm.

Wheel Diameter (with tire): 67.5mm.

Compatible with:

Raspberry Pi Pico

The Monk Makes solderless breadboard labelled for the Raspberry Pi Pico is the perfect prototyping solution for the Pico. Each of the Picos pins is labelled on the breadboard. When used in conjunction with a Pico with pin headers already attached, finding the right hole for your jumper lead couldn't be more simple.

The board has 400 tie points, 2 power buses and features an adhesive backing for securing your projects/prototypes. The board accepts wires, legs and male jumper connectors and allows you to build complex solderless circuits easily. The point spacing is a standard 2.54mm, making it compatible with any components/devices with a pin pitch of 2.54mm.

This RoHS compliant breadboard is rated for low voltage, low current only. Maximum for the Breadboard being 50V at 2A.

Features:

A solderless breadboard labelled for the Raspberry Pi Pico.

Each of pins on the Pico is labelled on the breadboard.

When used in conjunction with a Pico with pin headers already attached, finding the right hole for your jumper lead couldn't be more simple.

The board has 400 tie points, 2 power buses and features an adhesive backing for securing your projects/prototypes.

Standard 2.54mm point spacing.

RoHS compliant.

Compatible with:

Raspberry Pi Pico

This board is designed to make it easy to attach a high-brightness bulb to a Raspberry Pi, Pico, Arduino, ESP32 or other microcontrollers.

Most microcontrollers and single board computers (SBCs) like the Raspberry Pi have digital outputs that can only supply a current of a few milliamps. This means that you can only use them with low-power LEDs, but if you want to control a high-power LED light bulb then you need to use the microcontroller or SBC's output pin to switch the LED light bulb on and off (using a transistor).

The illuminata includes a transistor to switch its three high-brightness LEDs on and off. This is why the Illuminata has three pins. Two are for power and the third is the control pin that switches the lamp on and off.

Features

3V to 6V operation.

Built-in MOSFET for PWM and on/off control

Pre-soldered pin headers (GND, Control and +V)

Breadboard friendly

Laser-cut diffuser (superglue required)

Cool Aluminum PCB

M2.5 mounting holes

Compatible with:

Raspberry Pi Pico

A prototyping board designed for the Raspberry Pi Pico with the Pico pinout marked on the PCB. If you liked the Breadboard for Pico and are ready to take your prototype to solder, you will love this board! This prototyping board is inspired by the MonkMakes Breadboard for Pico and has all the Pico's pin names on the PCB making it easy to make your project more permanent and robust.

You can solder the Pico to the prototyping board using the castellations around the edge of the board, or using header pins, or even solder header sockets onto the Pico Proto PCB so that you can easily swap out the Pico. There are also solder bridges to connect power busses.

The layout of the Pico Proto PCB is modelled on a 400-point breadboard, and after the Pico is soldered to the PCB, there are 10 more rows that can be used for your own through-hole components. Once complete, fit the project into your enclosure using the M2.5 mounting holes.

Compatible with:

Raspberry Pi Pico

The MonkMakes Amplified Speaker is an easy to use amplified speaker on a circuit board. The board needs a 3.3 to 6V power supply that can be provided by a Raspberry Pi or Arduino. Audio input will normally be to the 3.5mm stereo audio jack socket, which is mixed to a mono signal.

The product includes a separate input with low-pass filter for use with PWM/PCM audio.
Compatible with:

Raspberry Pi Pico

The LED kit contains red, green & yellow LEDs in 3mm, 5mm and 10mm round sizes as well as some Colour Changing and Tri colour LEDs plus some 5mm LED panel mounting holders. 105 parts are supplied in a multiple compartment storage box.

Features:

Large selection of LEDs.

3mm, 5mm and 10mm Red LEDs.

3mm, 5mm and 10mm Green LEDs.

3mm, 5mm and 10mm Yellow LEDs.

5mm LED holders.

Colour Changing LEDs.

Tri colour 5mm diffused LEDs.

Contents:

10 x 3mm Red LEDs.

10 x 5mm Red LEDs.

5 x 10mm Red LEDs.

10 x 3mm Green LEDs.

10 x 5mm Green LEDs.

5 x 10mm Green LEDs.

10 x 3mm Yellow LEDs.

10 x 5mm Yellow LEDs.

5 x 10mm Yellow LEDs.

10 x 5mm Panel Mount LED Clips.

10 x Colour Changing 5mm LEDs.

10 x Tri Colour 5mm LEDs.

1 x LED Kit box.

Kit Box Dimensions:

Length: 174mm.

Width: 140mm.

Height: 32mm.

Compatible with:

Raspberry Pi Pico

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