The PicoBit is an adapter board that allows the Raspberry Pi Pico to be connected to micro:bit accessories.

The micro:bit has been around for a number of years has a large number of accessories have been produced, many of which I have purchased and made projects with, so I wanted to make those accessories easily connectable to the Pi Pico.

Using the PicoBit it is also possible to connect the Pi Pico to Raspberry Pi HATs via the use of other existing micro:bit adapters.

What's in the box:

PicoBit:

• 1x PicoBit PCB

PicoBit + Headers:

• 1x PicoBit PCB
• 2x 20 Female pin low-profile headers

The RaspberryPi Pico is not included but can be ordered from a number of suppliers here.

The pin mappings have been carefully chosen to help existing micro:bit code. The adapter has been tested with over a dozen micro:bit accessories, and a few Pi Hats.

There is plenty of example source code for using it with Arduino, C & CircuitPython.

The PicoBit has been tested with a Pi Pico and these micro:bit (and Pi) add-ons:

• 4Tronix BitBotXL
• Kitronik GameZip
• Kitronik Piano*
• Mime - MeArm
• Pimoroni EnviroBit
• Pimoroni NoiseBit
• Pimoroni ScrollBit
• Pimoroni TouchBit
• Pimoroni Piano HAT*
• Pimoroni Speaker PHAT*
• ProtoPic MicroPixel Edge
• ProtoPic Simon Says
• WaveShare LCD

*requires 4Tronix Bit:2:Pi

Examples

Arduino Examples:

• Mime - MeArm

CircuitPython Examples

• Kitronik GameZip
• Kitronik Piano
• Mime - MeArm
• Pimoroni EnviroBit
• Pimoroni NoiseBit
• Pimoroni ScrollBit
• Pimoroni TouchBit
• Pimoroni Piano HAT
• Pimoroni Speaker PHAT
• ProtoPic MicroPixel Edge
• ProtoPic Simon Says

C Examples

• SPI Display (ST7755)