At first look, you would possibly simply presume this can be a common off-the-shelf Raspberry Pi Pico. Your eye would possibly then be drawn to the USB C connector and the very keen-eyed would possibly discover just a few barely completely different parts on board. Nevertheless, delve a bit of deeper, and that is an extensively modified and rugged nearly indestructible re-imagining referred to as the Dact Pico.
The primary main headline is that this Pico-compatible board has over-voltage and over-current safety and likewise consists of discharge safety on each IO pin. The switching energy provide on board can obtain as much as 32 volts with out difficulty, dramatically rising energy choices for the board; it might additionally provide as much as 700mA as a relentless provide and as much as 2A as a burst. There are ferrites on the ability enter and loads of further bypass capacitors which means the provision could be very clear. Polyfuses, normal diodes and transient voltage suppression diodes additionally abound do you have to attempt to join issues up backward or unintentionally brief an output.
USB-C is a pleasant addition and is slowly changing into the de-facto normal for developer boards and once more the USB enter is well-protected with fuses close by. The opposite further characteristic above and past the usual Pico is that the Dact Pico has a reset button on board.
It looks as if the whole lot is a well-thought-out addition to the Dact Pico and also you’ll should work fairly exhausting to wreck it. It’s excellent for a mission-critical Pico undertaking!
