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Espruino is a JavaScript Interpreter for Microcontrollers that is designed to make development quick and easy. The Espruino interpreter is firmware that runs on a variety of different microcontrollers, but we also make Espruino Boards that come with the interpreter pre-installed and are the easiest devices to get started with.

However Espruino itself isn’t just the interpreter firmware or hardware - there’s also the Web IDE, command-line tools, documentation, tutorials, and modules which form a complete solution for embedded software development.

Pico

The Pico is designed to plug right into you computer’s USB type A connector, or a USB extension lead. The components (not the text) should usually be facing upwards (so the 4 gold strips are facing the plastic in the USB socket).

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Specifications

  • 33mm x 15mm (1.3 x 0.6 inch)
  • 22 GPIO pins : 9 Analog inputs, 21 PWM, 2 Serial, 3 SPI, 3 I2C
  • All GPIO is 5 volt tolerant (Arduino compatible)
  • 2 rows of 9 0.1” pins, with a third 0.05” row of 8 pins on the end
  • On-board USB Type A connector
  • Two on-board LEDs and one button.
  • STM32F401CDU6 32-bit 84 MHz ARM Cortex M4 CPU
  • 384kb flash, 96kb RAM
  • On-board 3.3v 250mA voltage regulator, accepts voltages from 3.5v to 16v
  • Current draw in sleep: < 0.05mA - over 2.5 years on a 2500mAh battery
  • On-board FET can be used to drive high-current outputs
  • Rev 1v4: 500mA polyfuse on board
  • Rev 1v4: CE and RoHS certification

PinOut

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  • Purple boxes show pins that are used for other functionality on the board. You should avoid using these unless you know that the marked device is not used.
  • ! boxes contain extra information about the pin. Hover your mouse over them to see it.
  • 3.3v boxes mark pins that are not 5v tolerant (they only take inputs from 0 - 3.3v, not 0 - 5v).
  • 3.3 is a 3.3v output from the on-board Voltage regulator.
  • GND is ground (0v).
  • VBAT is the battery voltage output (see the Espruino Board Reference).
  • ADC is an Analog to Digital Converter (for reading analog voltages)
  • PWM is for Pulse Width Modulation. This creates analog voltages from a digital output by sending a series of pulses.
  • SPI is the 3 wire Serial Peripheral Interface.
  • USART is a 2 wire peripheral for Serial Data.
  • I2C is the 2 wire Inter-Integrated Circuit bus.

PINS NOT ON CONNECTORS

  • A9 USB PWM USART1 TX
  • A11 USB PWM USART6 TX
  • A12 USB USART6 RX
  • A13 JTAG
  • A14 JTAG
  • A15 JTAG PWM
  • B0 ADC USB PWM
  • B2 LED1 BOOT1
  • B12 LED2
  • C13 BTN1
  • C14 OSC RTC
  • C15 OSC RTC
  • H0 OSC