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Ash Hill

Raspberry Pi RP2040 powers new Waveshare USB dev board with onboard LCD screen

Waveshare Raspberry Pi
Raspberry Pi.

Waveshare has released a new development board for makers that are partial to the Raspberry Pi Pico's RP2040. Being one of our favorite microcontrollers, we found the opportunity to share hard to ignore. This new board is called the RP2040-GEEK and it sports a color LCD screen on one side as well as access to some useful ports.

One of the biggest and most notable features of the RP2040-GEEK is the programmable screen. The module sports a 1.4-inch LCD display with a resolution of 240 x 135px. It can display a plenty of colors, with a range of 65k confirmed in the official specs from Waveshare. This makes it easy to create your own graphics that respond to the various connections it can make.

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