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The Hookup Guide from the SparkFun website walks through the hardware of the Pro Micro RP2040 as well as how to program the board in MicroPython. The voltage, data, and ground pins from the USB connector are broken out as well. One pin comes from the data out pin of the RGB LED. Two pins break out the SWD debugging interface. There are a few surface mount pads on the bottom of the board.

Be careful when soldering on headers as the switches and crystal crowd some of the pins. In an improvement to the form factor, the pads for the header pins are now castellated to allow surface mounting the board to another PCB. The four analog pins are in fixed positions by hardware, but most of the other pins can be reconfigured from the default roles given to them by SparkFun.
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Just about all of the pins can be assigned to one of eight PWM timers, or to an SPI, I2C, or UART serial connection. Most of the RP2040’s pins can be put to multiple uses. An additional pin is connected to an RGB LED. The four pin QWIIC connector is at the end of the board and provides an I2C serial connection and power to QWIIC-compatible sensors and peripherals. Two additional GPIO pins provide support for the SparkFun QWIIC Connect System. The RP2040 chip has 30 very flexible GPIO pins, but you will find only 18 of them broken out to header pins on this board. Subscribe to the premier DIY magazine todayĬommunity access, print, and digital Magazine, and more Skill builder, project tutorials, and more On Maker Campus facilitated by makers but for everyone Get hands-on with kits, books, and more from the Maker Shed
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