The ultimate RP2040-powered driver board for addressable LED strips. This board takes the Raspberry Pi Pico W and enhances it with convenient features, making it a breeze to create mesmerizing lighting effects. With screw terminals for easy LED connection, a boost circuitry for clean power, a reset button for quick resets, and a Qw/ST connector for hassle-free breakout connections, the Plasma Stick 2040 W simplifies your LED projects without the need for soldering. Designed with wireless LED applications in mind, this board offers a straightforward solution for dazzling lighting setups.
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
- Fully-assembled (no soldering required)
- C++/MicroPython libraries
- Schematic
LED strip and connectors are sold separately, check out the extras tab for some options!
What's in the box?
1 x Plasma Stick 2040 W
Software
You can program Pico/RP2040 boards in a bunch of different ways, but if you're a beginner we'd recommend using our batteries included MicroPython build for ease of getting started. We've pre-loaded Plasma Stick with pirate-brand MicroPython and some fun examples to help you get started.
- (Learn) Getting Started with Raspberry Pi Pico
- (Learn) Assembling Wireless Plasma Kit
- Download pirate-brand MicroPython (you'll need the `picow` .uf2)
- MicroPython examples
- MicroPython function reference
- C++ examples
Alternatively, you could install CircuitPython on your Pico W! CircuitPython is an easy to use, well-established ecosystem with lots of example code and drivers for interfacing with different kinds of hardware - and it's just got Pico W wireless support, woop!
- Download CircuitPython for Plasma 2040
- Welcome to CircuitPython
- CircuitPython examples
- Quick-Start the Pico W WiFi with CircuitPython
If you're adapting examples from elsewhere and need to know the pins that Plasma Stick uses, it's GP15 for LED data, GP4 for I2C SDA and GP5 for I2C SCL.
Note: Stock is currently available in South Africa for national shipping!
