Ever desire a microcontroller addon to your laptops? You can do worse than match one of many new and highly effective microcontrollers on the block to one of the addon-friendly laptops, in the best way the Framework RP2350 laptop computer card does it. Plug it in, and also you get a heap of USB-connected IO popping out of the facet of your laptop computer – what’s to not love?
The cardboard makes use of the Framework module board area to the fullest extent attainable, leaving IO enlargement on SMD pads you might marry to a male or feminine header, your alternative. With about seventeen GPIOs, energy, and floor, there’s actually no restrict on what you might add to the facet connector – possibly it’d be a logic analyzer buffer, or a breadboard cable, or a flash chip reader, possibly, even an addon to show it right into a pirate model of a Bus Pirate? There’s a good few RP2350 peripherals accessible on the facet header GPIOs, so sky’s the restrict.
Naturally, the cardboard is totally open-source, and even has two variations with two totally different USB-C plug connectors, we guess, relying on which one is healthier preferred by your PCBA course of. Need one? Simply ship off the information! Final time we noticed an addon including GPIOs to your laptop computer, it was a Pi Zero put into the optical bay of a Thinkpad, additionally with an enlargement header accessible on the facet – pairing one more legendary board with a legendary laptop computer.
