Tutorial: Designing and Building a Custom RP2040 Development Board
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Summary
This is a comprehensive tutorial on designing and building a custom RP2040 development board (similar to Raspberry Pi Pico). The article provides step-by-step guidance on PCB design fundamentals, explaining the purpose of every component on the board, from the RP2040 SoC to supporting circuitry. It serves as both a practical tutorial for creating a devboard clone and an educational resource for understanding embedded systems hardware design, with source files available for reference.
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Today, we're going to be designing our own dev board, using one of the most popular and beginner friendly SoC's, the RP2040.
All the source files for this tutorial can be found here, so if you need any help, feel free to resort to the repository and give it a star if you want to see more guides like it!
Now let's start off with the basic question, what's an SoC! An SoC or sy
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