Plasma Stick 2040 W (Pico W Aboard) by Pimoroni
This perky Pico W-powered controller for WS2812/Neopixel/SK6812 LEDs is perfect for coding up some wireless blinkenlight shenanigans.
We’ve taken a Raspberry Pi Pico W and added a set of screw terminals to make it easy to connect up your LEDs and boost circuitry so they get a nice clean 5V on the power and data lines. We’ve also added a reset button (because unplugging your USB cable all the time is tedious) and a Qw/ST (Qwiic/STEMMA QT) connector so you can connect it up to breakouts, all without soldering.
Features
- Raspberry Pi Pico W Aboard
- Dual Arm Cortex M0+ running at up to 133Mhz with 264kB of SRAM
- 2MB of QSPI flash supporting XiP
- Powered and programmable by USB micro-B
- 2.4GHz wireless
- Compatible with 5V WS2812/Neopixel/SK6812 LEDs
- Screw terminals for attaching your LED strip.
- Reset button
- Qw/ST (Qwiic/STEMMA QT) connector
About Pico W Aboard
Our new Pico W Aboard products come with a built in Raspberry Pi Pico W. This means you get all the advantages of a RP2040 microcontroller - a speedy fast dual-core ARM processor, a dynamic, growing ecosystem and a choice of different programming methods to experiment with. Most excitingly though, Pico W has wireless connectivity, so your Pico/RP2040 devices can communicate with each other, and the internet!
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CircuitPython 9.2.7
This is the latest stable release of CircuitPython that will work with the Plasma Stick 2040 W (Pico W Aboard). Use this release if you are new to CircuitPython.
Modules included in this download
_asyncio _bleio _eve _pixelmap adafruit_bus_device adafruit_pixelbuf aesio alarm analogbufio analogio array atexit audiobusio audiocore audiomixer audiomp3 audiopwmio binascii bitbangio bitmapfilter bitmaptools bitops board builtins builtins.pow3 busdisplay busio busio.SPI busio.UART codeop collections countio cyw43 digitalio displayio epaperdisplay errno floppyio fontio fourwire framebufferio getpass gifio hashlib i2cdisplaybus i2ctarget imagecapture io ipaddress jpegio json keypad keypad.KeyMatrix keypad.Keys keypad.ShiftRegisterKeys keypad_demux keypad_demux.DemuxKeyMatrix locale math mdns memorymap microcontroller msgpack neopixel_write nvm onewireio os os.getenv paralleldisplaybus pulseio pwmio qrio rainbowio random re rgbmatrix rotaryio rp2pio rtc sdcardio select sharpdisplay socketpool ssl storage struct supervisor synthio sys terminalio tilepalettemapper time touchio traceback ulab usb_cdc usb_hid usb_midi usb_video vectorio warnings watchdog wifi zlibIncluded frozen(?) modules: neopixel
Features: Bluetooth/BTLE, STEMMA QT/QWIIC, Wi-Fi
CircuitPython 10.0.0-alpha.2
This is the latest development release of CircuitPython that will work with the Plasma Stick 2040 W (Pico W Aboard).
Alpha development releases are early releases. They are unfinished, are likely to have bugs, and the features they provide may change. Beta releases may have some bugs and unfinished features, but should be suitable for many uses. A Release Candidate (rc) release is considered done and will become the next stable release, assuming no further issues are found.
Please try alpha, beta, and rc releases if you are able. Your testing is invaluable: it helps us uncover and find issues quickly.
Release Notes for 10.0.0-alpha.2
Modules included in this download
_asyncio _bleio _eve _pixelmap adafruit_bus_device adafruit_pixelbuf aesio alarm analogbufio analogio array atexit audiobusio audiocore audiomixer audiomp3 audiopwmio binascii bitbangio bitmapfilter bitmaptools bitops board builtins builtins.pow3 busdisplay busio busio.SPI busio.UART codeop collections countio cyw43 digitalio displayio epaperdisplay errno floppyio fontio fourwire framebufferio getpass gifio hashlib i2cdisplaybus i2ctarget imagecapture io ipaddress jpegio json keypad keypad.KeyMatrix keypad.Keys keypad.ShiftRegisterKeys keypad_demux keypad_demux.DemuxKeyMatrix locale lvfontio math mdns memorymap microcontroller msgpack neopixel_write nvm onewireio os os.getenv paralleldisplaybus pulseio pwmio qrio rainbowio random re rgbmatrix rotaryio rp2pio rtc sdcardio select sharpdisplay socketpool ssl storage struct supervisor synthio sys terminalio tilepalettemapper time touchio traceback ulab usb_cdc usb_hid usb_midi usb_video vectorio warnings watchdog wifi zlibIncluded frozen(?) modules: neopixel
Features: Bluetooth/BTLE, STEMMA QT/QWIIC, Wi-Fi
Absolute Newest
Every time we commit new code to CircuitPython we automatically build binaries for each board and language. The binaries are stored on Amazon S3, organized by board, and then by language. These releases are even newer than the development release listed above. Try them if you want the absolute latest and are feeling daring or want to see if a problem has been fixed.
Previous Versions of CircuitPython
All previous releases of CircuitPython are available for download from Amazon S3 through the button below. For very old releases, look in the OLD/ folder for each board. Release notes for each release are available at GitHub button below.
Older releases are useful for testing if you something appears to be broken in a newer release but used to work, or if you have older code that depends on features only available in an older release. Otherwise we recommend using the latest stable release.