Adapters for the pico-ice

[josuah]

It is planned to either offer 3rd-party purchase links or sell directly add-on for the pico-ice, such as:

• PMODs modules
• Adapter boards
• Various headers for the different soldering styles
• Maybe more...

[josuah]

Some suggestions of PMODs from the chat:

• Rotary encoder,
• 7-segment display,
• ambient light or PIR sensor
• 4 pushbuttons,
• GPS sensor,
• accelerometer, magnetosensor, gyrometer,
• wifi,
• temperature sensor
• PDM microphone
• VGA adapter
• HDMI adapter
• Ethernet adapter
• Motor driver (externally supplied): servo, brushless, 3-phase...

Some of these might be as well fit as QWIIC / Stemma QT modules through a PMOD - I²C adapter board.

[josuah]

PMOD for SD Card

SD Card are ubiquitous data storage useable over SPI, often present in many hobby and commercial projects.

Use-case discussed that lead to this idea: using an SD Card to store programs from which the RP2040 would start, as well as containing the FPGA bitstream.
This would allow the pico-ice to launch a FPGA bitstream + software, both contained in the SD Card, loaded onto the appropriate chip by the RP2040.

Other popular use-case, very often encountered as self-teaching project, is an MP3 file player with storage on an SD Card.

[nobodywasishere]

a PDM microphone and a vga adapter would be nice, may design ones myself soon.

[josuah]

Great idea, a lot of connectors for a lot of different connectors. That makes sense.

[josuah]

The power shield project suggested by @z80

[josuah]

Some suggestion of adapter shields from the chat:

• Adapter for breadboards: ribbon cable to plug onto the breadboard
• Adapter for breadboards: double PMOD to single-row header cable
• Adapter for QWIIC / Stemma QT / ... connector system over I²C
• Adapter holding the board in place, giving power supply to a breadboard, exposing PMODs as vertical female headers

[josuah]

Suggestions of headers to solder from the chat:

• The classic angled 2-rows PMOD headers
• 2-pin female header for use with the BOOTSEL button along with a jumper
• full width, 2-rows female headers to cover all pins
• single-row female headers, in addition with single-row male headers, to have the inner rows on a breadboard, and the outter rows with female headers faced up