uPico Expansion Card

Haha. In fairness, he can’t know demand for his add-on boards until the first batch. But given the reaction, I’d say he has a solid winner here.

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I have a 3D Printer, Bambu Lab P1S, I can help printing it. US, Utah here.

Okay, see, this is a different thing entirely. Bro, you can literally have multiple expansion cards hanging off of the left side now. A joystick and back buttons, the LTE module only uses USB IIRC, you can throw a LoraWAN compatible module on there… an SDR even.

I salute you as formally as I can in a comment section dude.

This is uPico design diagram, I hope this will give you more information about project!

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Here is a CircuitPython demo!

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Just got mine from mailbox:

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Awesome! :tada:
I just published prerelease of uPico control application: Release MVP · dotcypress/upico · GitHub

Application tested only on R-01, cause I’m still waiting for CM4 adapter.
Any questions/feedback are welcome!

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Did the uHub go on sale? Did I miss the mark yet again!? :confused:

It was on sale for half of a day.
Next batch already in production

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awesome work! will probably get the gpio version. would like to see a teensy 4.1 in this form factor for m8 headless, might have to puzzle it out myself.

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Ive been looking into trying to link up the pi4 and the teensy gpio pins together for this exact reason but im still pretty novice on this subject.

Update: looks like there is a way by using the UART pins (tx,rx) on both boards to send/recieve data and then do some hocus pocus coding on both the teensy and pi to accept data coming through that way… but i cant know untill i get my hands on both and this expansion board listed here and start to figure out programming myself…unless anyone else wants to try

uPico back in stock :tada:

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Probably still a year out from my uconsole showing up, but might as well buy one of these now – just in case.

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Thank you! I ordered mine today!

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Just got both the uPico and uHub in the mail last night. Will try to scrape some time to do some testing on them in the next few days.

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@Vitaly – I got my uHub board; the speakers work, but the ports do not. Any thoughts?

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Sorry to hear that, let’s try to find a root cause.
Could you try lsusb and post program output?
Also it will be helpful to get a photo of uHub on chip side, maybe something go off during shipping.

I created Discord server for support/questions, everyone are welcome Quadbit

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This looks amazing. Not to sound stupid or anything but this is an expansion board that is essentially a Raspberry Pi Pico in another format? Also I notice on the Tindie store that there’s no shipping rates to the UK but I can email to ask. Are you shipping worldwide?

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I tried another peripheral with an indicator LED and verified that the ports do work; I think the original one I tried (Sandisk Extreme Portable SSD) just drew too much power. That’s on me for not doing my due diligence.

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Yes, by default, current maximum is 500mA per port.
But you can easily update that by changing values of R9, R10, R13.

See schematics:

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