{"id":21156,"date":"2021-07-29T17:17:48","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T16:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=21156"},"modified":"2021-07-29T17:24:45","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T16:24:45","slug":"review-of-the-cytron-technologies-maker-pi-rp2040-a-motor-controller-board-at-the-start-of-your-robotics-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=21156","title":{"rendered":"Review of the Cytron Technologies Maker Pi RP2040 – a motor controller board at the start of your robotics journey"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last in my mailbag of Cytron Technologies<\/a> goodies, this is the Maker Pi RP2040<\/strong>. It has clearly been designed to get you going with your robotics journey and to give you the ability to add all sorts of inputs and outputs into a project, centered around the new RP2040 microcontroller chip from Raspberry Pi.<\/p>\n

TL;DR – great for beginners, plenty of inputs and outputs, easy to power. Another winner from Cytron.<\/em><\/p>\n

What’s in the box?<\/h2>\n

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You get the Maker Pi RP2040 board and also 4 Grove-to-female-header cables, some rubber feet and, handily, a small Phillips screwdriver – that saved me digging my own screwdriver out, and it’s a nice something for the newbies who don’t have a collection of tools.<\/p>\n

What can the board do?<\/h2>\n

Let’s first of all look at your input\/output options:<\/p>\n