{"title":"Badger 2040 + accessories","handle":"badger-2040-accessories","url":"/products/badger-2040-accessories","description":"\n  \nA hackable, programmable badge with E Ink® display, powered by Raspberry Pi RP2040.\n\n\nIn honour of Raspberry Pi's 10th birthday, we've fused a RP2040 microcontroller with an EPD display to make a stylishly monochrome, maker friendly, e-paper badge(r) to attach to your person, your office door or to prop up on your desk. With the support of the fun guys (and gals and non-binary pals) at Ineltek and Raspberry Pi we've been able to keep it as low cost as possible, hoorah!\n\n\nWe've equipped Badger 2040 with plenty of buttons so you can easily change what's displayed on the screen, a slot so you can clip it onto a lanyard and a battery connector so you can keep things portable and refresh the screen whilst on the go. On the back, you'll find some funky badgerpunk stylings plus our RP2040 accoutrements of choice: boot and reset buttons and a Qw/ST connector so it's super easy to plug in Qwiic or STEMMA QT breakouts\n\n\nHere are some things you could do with it!\n\n\nSwitch between images, pronouns or secret identities at the push of a button\nMake yourself into a mobile weather station or air quality monitor (by adding a sensor breakout)\nStore important QR codes for getting into places (or to Rickroll people)\nMake a tiny to-do list and tick stuff off\nDisplay inspirational badger quotes or educational badger facts of the day\n\n\nWant to show your Badger the world? We've put together a convenient Badger + Accessory Kit which contains batteries, a lanyard and everything else that's needed to get portabello.\n\n\np.s. 🦡🦡🦡🦡🍄🍄🐍\n\nRP2040 x e Ink®\n\nWe're big fans of electronic paper at Pirate HQ - it makes for a lovely, crisp, high contrast display that's readable even in bright sunlight and it doesn't squirt unnecessary blue light into your environs like LCDs do. It's also ultra low power (EPD displays only consume power while they're refreshing), and the images on the display stick around for a really long time whilst the display is unpowered.\n\n\nUsing a RP2040 chip means we can drive the hardware in fun, experimental, low level ways. We've written custom drivers for the EPD display that prioritise low power consumption whilst enabling lightning fast refresh rates.\n\nFeatures\n\n2.9\" black and white E Ink® display (296 x 128 pixels)\nUltra wide viewing angles\nUltra low power consumption\nDot pitch - 0.227 x 0.226 mm\n\n\nPowered by RP2040 (Dual Arm Cortex M0+ running at up to 133Mhz with 264kB of SRAM)\n2MB of QSPI flash supporting XiP\nFive front user buttons\nReset and boot buttons (the boot button can also be used as a user button)\nWhite LED\nUSB-C connector for power and programming\nJST-PH connector for attaching a battery (input range 2.7V - 6V)\nHigh-precision voltage reference for battery level monitoring\nQw/ST (Qwiic/STEMMA QT) connector\nFully-assembled (no soldering required)\nSchematic\nMechanical drawing\nC++/MicroPython libraries\n\nBadger + Accessory Kit includes\n\nBadger 2040\n2 x AAA battery holder\n2 x AAA batteries\nVelcro square\nBlack lanyard (made from recycled plastic bottles!)\nUSB-C to USB-A cable\n\nSoftware\n\nBecause it's a RP2040 board, Badger 2040 is firmware agnostic! You can program it with C/C++, MicroPython or CircuitPython.\n\n\nOur C++/MicroPython libraries contain some nifty software tweaks to let you get the most out of your Badger. You'll get best performance using C++, but if you're a beginner we'd recommend using our batteries included MicroPython build for ease of getting started.\n\n\nDownload Pirate brand MicroPython (special Badger edition)\nGetting Started with Badger 2040\nC++ examples\nMicroPython examples\nMicroPython function reference\n\n\nYou can also use CircuitPython on your Badger 2040. CircuitPython drivers are designed to work on a bunch of different microcontrollers so you won't get the fancy RP2040-architecture specific tweaks that you'll find in our library, but you will get access to all the nice conveniences of Adafruit's ecosystem.\n\n\nDownload CircuitPython for Badger 2040\nGetting Started with CircuitPython\nCircuitPython example (coming soon!)\n\nConnecting Breakouts\n\nIf your breakout has a QW/ST connector on board, you can plug it straight in with a JST-SH to JST-SH cable, or you can easily connect any of our I2C Breakout Garden breakouts with a JST-SH to JST-SH cable coupled with a Qw/ST to Breakout Garden adaptor.\n\n\nList of breakouts currently compatible with our C++/MicroPython build.\nNotes\n\nMeasurements: 85.6mm x 48.7mm x 10mm (L x W x H, including connectors). The mounting holes are M2 and 2.9mm in from each edge. The corner radius is 3mm.\nBadger 2040 is fairly accommodating about input voltage (2.7V - 6V), so it's possible to use a variety of different batteries and battery packs. A 2x AAA battery pack fits behind Badger nicely (double/triple AA and AAA battery packs will also work though).\n2x AAA rechargeable (NiMH) batteries only puts out 2.4V which is, strictly speaking, not enough for Badger. However, in our tests it keeps on truckin' down to an input voltage of 2.05V (without the LED), so if you want to use rechargeable batteries that should be fine.\nAlternatively, you can plug a LiPo/LiIon battery into the battery connector, with the following caveats. Please only consider this if the person wearing the badge is an adult and knows what they're doing with LiPos!\nA solid enclosure or backplate to protect the battery from damage whilst being worn is a very good idea.\nThere's no battery protection included on Badger 2040, so you should only use it with LiPo batteries that include internal protection (all ours do).\nUnlike some of our other boards, Badger 2040 doesn't have battery charging circuitry onboard. You'll need an external LiPo charger to charge the battery (like a LiPo Amigo).\n\n\nReset behaviour is slightly different when running on battery, because of the power saving features built into the board. If you're running on battery power, you will need to tap the reset button on the back, and then hold any of the front buttons to wake it up and trigger a refresh.\nNever set your password as \"mushroom\". It is not stroganoff.\n\nAbout RP2040\n\nRaspberry Pi's RP2040 microcontroller is a dual core ARM Cortex M0+ running at up to 133Mhz. It bundles in 264kB of SRAM, 30 multifunction GPIO pins (including a four channel 12-bit ADC), a heap of standard peripherals (I2C, SPI, UART, PWM, clocks, etc), and USB support.\n\n\nOne very exciting feature of RP2040 is the programmable IOs which allow you to execute custom programs that can manipulate GPIO pins and transfer data between peripherals - they can offload tasks that require high data transfer rates or precise timing that traditionally would have required a lot of heavy lifting from the CPU.\n\n","vendor":"Little Bird","product_type":"physical","in_stock":false,"options":[],"variants":[{"id":2310,"title":"Default Title","sku":"PR-PIM610","price":59.17,"on_sale":false,"in_stock":false,"available_quantity":0,"option1":"Default Title"}]}