 It's me John Park and it's time for JEP's product pick of the week. Here we are. You'll never believe the weird Duck that just ran through here a goose. I don't know. It was dancing I'm excited for the show today. This is a cool one What I want you to do is head on over to the product page because there's a big discount on this week's product pick if you go to this URL or if you head over to that QR code You can watch this show inside Because the YouTube is streaming from right inside the product page. Thanks to jelly. Thanks jelly jelly posts that in there updates the product page and That means that you'll be ready prepared to If you want it go ahead and get one or up to ten of this week's product pick of the week at a steep steep discount I believe it's 50% off. In fact, let's go check it out. I'm gonna spoil the surprise I think you know what it is, but I'm gonna head on over to product page refresh and My goodness, it's 50% off. All right, so I encourage you to head on over there. That's the URL But let's get on with it. What I'm gonna do is have Lady Aida Introduce us to this product when it was first launched. So please take it away Lady Aida is the feather 2040 if you're watching this live, you might even have some in stock. That's right. The feather RP 2040 we got those chips in Last week late and then on Monday. We got the PCBs and we ran then we did a small round and we'll be doing more Okay, so it's up here so I can point out all the things we got going on So it is a feather. It's feather shaped two inches by point nine inches USB-C connector a lot of our newer feathers have USB-C. It's got the standard JST battery connector It's got battery charging built-in. There's two buttons on the left. There's a reset button on the very right There's a boot select button for those who've played with the RP 2040 You know that you have to press the boot select button while resetting or powering up to go into the UFT bootloader So that's a great way to easily load code onto it We don't need any special DFU utils or a special SWD programmer But speaking of SWD programmer, there is an SWD header in the middle. It's not populated Why because we wanted to keep this feather nice and slim a lot of people like to kind of like make slim feather packages And the SWD header would make it kind of extra tall So we left it out that said we sell the connectors to like a dollar. You can buy them did you key a couple cents? So on the SWD connector should you wish to? Connect us up to a debugger like your Jlink or what not and use the debugger tools Not a lot of people use the debugger. So again, it's it's an optional thing There's an on-board neopixel that you can control it's connected to one of the pins that isn't brought out in Circuit Python. We use it to notify you about your program status, but use it for whatever you like There's a crystal and of course the RP 2040 chip right this this cool dual cortex M zero runs about 125 megahertz It's got 264 K of ram in it, which is wonderful And because it has RAM but not flash if you look on the very right-hand side can between the chip and the boot select button There is a Q spy flash chip. That's the execute in place flash. It's 8 megabytes It's really chunky because it's going to be shared with your circuit Python or micro Python code as well as the former running on the RP 2040 itself So for circuit Python at least we take about a megabyte and then you have seven megabytes left for all the files and fonts and Libraries and images and animations will move audio whatever you have you stick it on that disk drive So you have seven megabytes left over which is a good amount If you're wondering why eight you can watch last week's desk of Lady Aida and I'll tell you the secret which is it was a thing that worked And then last but not least there's a stem a QT connector So you can quickly connect all sorts of sensors and devices OLEDs and such into the end We even have a grove adapter cable. So if you have grove I squared C sensors plug those in as well The idea is to make it super easy for people to get started with circuit Python on the RP 2040 And speaking of I you know, I have some feather projects. I thought I would I would show off So here I've got the RP 2040 and here is the the feather and for RGB featherwing, right? So this is for RGB matrix displays As seen on the matrix portal people love these, you know, they're they're used in pixel purses They come in all sorts of sizes and it's a really easy way to add tons of LEDs to a project and I just have it On a doubler, so they're just connected side by side so you can see both of them And then when I power this with five volts So the RGB featherwing is connected up to this matrix into running this little animation which is taking Icons from a bitmap and then like swirling them around in circuit Python. It's just an easy demo to show quick animations of Icon on iconography and bitmaps on RGB featherwing So that just shows like, you know, you can plug and play existing featherwings onto your RP 2040 feather Hey there accidental down sprakes. Sorry about that. All right So let me let me go ahead and grab my own right here from my little mystery box that I have sitting Right here on the bench in front of me Boing, that's a good sound and there it is that is The beauty right there. It is the product pick of the week It is the feather RP 2040 so this is the feather that you want It's first of all the chip that's most available in the world right now we think It has usb-c on it. It has dual cores. It's a Cortex M zero plus But running at sort of our m4 speeds. We got eight megs of RAM on there We have the stem aqt quick port so you can connect things up easily to it. There are 21 GPIO It has two i-squared c-buses two spi buses. There are Let me check my notes 16 PWM pins on there It has the built-in battery charging. So this is really a terrific board It's kind of a go-to board for projects for me right now as you've probably noticed because as I've been building things lately A lot of my projects have this in it. For example, here is the Get this over here here here. Feather Fader fader fader has four of our stem aqt feather faders not feather four of our stem aqt faders on it As well as a one by four mechanical key switch and this one I used to send out MIDI MIDI MIDI MIDI a little mixer of mine But that's got the little feather RP 2040 hidden redden redden redden. I've also got a little feather quadrupler here That I have that's actually also a MIDI project and it's got mechanical key switches on it with a different feather wing And I have a little OLED feather wing on there. Here's another one. I demoed recently This is the tripler and I have a little screen and I have a relay on there relay feather wing So feather wings make it all come together You can plug a lot of these parts together and have this great Feather to control it all that you can use circuit Python on you can also use Arduino I'm not sure about micropython someone. Let me know if that's the that's the case You'll even notice that I've done Stuff with the cricket so if you want to plug in a microcontroller into your robotics projects I did this little animatronic doorbell around Halloween time. I've got the feather RP 2040 plugged into there if we take a look over at The product page you'll see there. We've got some nice shots of it some of the stats on here and and specifications and Then if you scroll down a little bit further you'll get to some links including the product Main guide here this primary guide, which is this over here So this will take you through the pinouts which are pretty extensive as you can see by the pretty pins that we have here To let you know what all those pins do As well as how to put it together some different configurations for soldering on pins to it if you want one of the things I love about it for quick testing of things is I don't need to solder anything on in order to plug in a little quick Cable there and use any of our sensors with it. So same with displays and some of these input Qts that we have and then there's Info and getting your circuit Python on there or using Arduino with it if you had to the learn system you can Slide this over here a little bit You can see just type in feather RP 2040 and you'll find a bunch of projects that were made with it In fact, this is one that I use every day. It's this little mechanical keypad I built using our little snap away Quick connect what do we call these no solder? Mechanical key switch boards and I've got the feather RP 2040 up there running that And on and on there's quite a few projects on here. It's powerful Processor and it's got lots of RAM so you can put on images. You'll see a lot of these are image-based Projects same with music if you want to play music right off of a circuit Python device It's a good one to look into for that What else so those are those are our Some of our guides for it Let's see if we head on over to the The discord here you'll see We've got a cool little add-on that see Grover posted about here Which is a stem adapter to add underneath projects there, which is which is way cool let's go check that out and Let's see Here are some nice pretty pictures whoops, let me bring those back up Of the board there so you can see one of the nice things about this is that we've got both the sort of Pico style RP 2040 pin names on the bottom there so they're referred to as these GP Numbers and then on the top of the board you can see we have the more standard feather naming of things including breakouts for The I squared C as well as the I squared C over the stomach qt at the bottom and then a bunch of those pins there So it's really nice how this brings this compatible into The feather ecosystem a one question that we have from raspberry pi beret Great name over in the discord chat is the best way to get Wi-Fi out of this So we have the airlift feather wing, which is a nice way to do it. It gives you a ESP 32 co processor So that's a feather wing that you can either plop on top of it or put them side-by-side on a little feather doubler or breadboards Hook those up and then you can access Wi-Fi using this I don't know if we have any in the works of other Wi-Fi solutions, but it will it will take a co processor So you'll need some some little side Processing on top of the RP 2040 be able to do something like that So that is the product pick if you head back over to the product page here you can see we've got Them still in stock maximum of 10 per customer that brings it down to $5 and 98 cents, which is terrific It's a great deal already at $12, but at this price point It's getting pretty close to that $4 price of the sort of reference pico board from raspberry pi But here you get all of those great add-ons Such as usb-c which we all love the stem of qt connector the battery charging Built on board so you can just plug a lipo into there and do charging right on to there as well as there's a neopixel built right on for status So really terrific board one of my favorites one of the go-tos. Yeah. Thank you Todd over in the discord posted a Answer to that question about getting Wi-Fi there is the airlift featherwing esp 32 Wi-Fi coprocessor product ID 4264 and you can add that on if you go actually Let me bring the product page back up if you go and scroll down a little bit in here You'll see these two product New new new product videos. I forget which one, but if you look at those two. I actually edited down Lamors original Release video there and a second project. She shows does some Adafruit IO stuff using the Wi-Fi coprocessor So you'll see it in action right there If you if you check out one of those two videos So That's gonna do it. Yeah, so someone resident probably said it's in the cart great remember if you want to get the 50% off on this put that in your cart and Check out pretty much before the show ends or close to it because the discount goes away You don't need a coupon code or anything, but also means it's only a sort of time-based thing So as soon as a little bit gets flipped, it'll go back to its regular price So that's gonna do it. That's my product pick of the week. It's one of my favorite feathers one of my favorite boards to work with It is the feather RP 2040 Put it up there on the board of product goodies and thank you so much for stopping by for Adafruit Industries I'm John Park. This has been JP's product pick of the week. Goodbye