Pico Display Pack 2.0

by Pimoroni

A spacious 2.0" (320 x 240) IPS LCD display for Raspberry Pi Pico, with four buttons, an RGB LED and plenty of room for your Pico projects!

This 18-bit capable 320x240 pixel IPS display adheres majestically to the back of your Pico, and has lush colours and great viewing angles. Just like our original Display Pack, we've surrounded it with four tactile buttons so you can use your human fingers (or other non-human appendages) to interface with your Pico. There's also an RGB LED that you can use as an indicator, for notifications or just for adding extra rainbows.

Pico Display 2.0 lets you turn a Pico into a user interface device for a bigger project, capable of giving instructions, displaying readouts and even incorporating elaborate nested menus. If you'd rather use your Pico as a standalone device you could fill up all that prime screen real estate with digitally generated, Mandelbrot-esque art, beautiful graphs or readouts from lots of sensors. You could even make a device for getting folks to share their secrets via Telnet!

A Raspberry Pi Pico is not included so make sure to grab one!

Your Pico will need to have pin headers soldered to it (with the pins pointing downwards) to attach to our add-on boards.

Features

  • 2.0” 320x240 pixel IPS LCD screen (~220 PPI, 65K colours)
  • 4 x tactile buttons
  • RGB LED
  • Pre-soldered female headers for attaching to Pico
  • Compatible with Raspberry Pi Pico/Pico W.
  • Fully assembled
  • No soldering required (as long as your Pico has header pins attached).
  • Dimensions: approx 56mm x 35mm x 11mm (L x W x H, includes display)
  • Screen usable area: 40.8mm x 30.6mm (L x W)
  • C/C++ and MicroPython libraries
  • Schematic
  • Dimensional drawing

Getting started

The labels on the underside of Pico Display Pack 2.0 will show you which way round to plug it into your Pico - just match up the USB port with the markings on the board.

The easiest way to get started is by downloading and copying our custom MicroPython uf2 to your Pico, it includes all the libraries you'll need to use our add-ons. The beginner friendly tutorial linked below will show you how to get to grips with pirate-brand MicroPython.

MicroPython code written for the original Display Pack can be easily converted to run on Display Pack 2.0 by changing DISPLAY_PICO_DISPLAY to DISPLAY_PICO_DISPLAY_2.

Display Pack 2.0 also works very nicely with CircuitPython and Adafruit's DisplayIO library - look for the Display Pack 2.0 ST7789 example in the library bundle to get started!

Notes

  • This screen is a wee bit taller than the surrounding buttons, so it's worth taking care when pressing the buttons that you're not also pressing down on the screen, particularly at the edge with the ribbon cable. Careful pressing with fingertips rather than full on thumb mashing is the way forward.
  • Even though it's bigger than our other Pico Packs, Display 2.0 will still work with Pico Omnibus or Pico Decker, if you want to use more than one Pico Pack at once. Please note that if you plug Display 2.0 into a Pico Decker, it will overhang the addon slot next to it.

About Raspberry Pi Pico

Raspberry Pi Pico is a flexible, low cost microcontroller development board from the folks at Raspberry Pi, based on their very own chip - the RP2040. It's easily programmable over USB with C/C++ or MicroPython, and ideal for using in all sorts of physical computing projects, devices and inventions - we're so excited to see what you make with it!

We've called our Pico-sized add-ons packs, as they're designed to attach to the back of your Pico as if it were wearing a very stylish back pack (or a miniature jet pack, if you prefer). We've also got Pico bases (larger add-on boards with a space to mount your Pico on top) and some other boards that let you do interesting hackerly things like using multiple packs at once - click here to view them all!

63 customer reviews

24 days ago
Great display. Compact (only about 50% bigger than the Pico itself) and with a good resolution. Easy to program in MicroPython wwith the PicoGraphics library. It wasn't long before I'd progressed beyond text and basic chapes and was creating my own sprites and displaying those.
by Sean about Pico Display Pack 2.0 via REVIEWS.io
9 months ago
Beautiful, very bright display, but blue channel of the RGB LED stays on constantly, regardless of port manipulation. The blue LED is VERY bright.
by Steven about Pico Display Pack 2.0 via REVIEWS.io
a year ago
This is a great little display for the Pico. It's a very useful size so you can display plenty of text whilst keeping it easily readable. The buttons are great to have whilst experimenting, but for a practical project they need to be larger and spaced further from the display. To complete my project I used external buttons.
by Mike about Pico Display Pack 2.0 via REVIEWS.io
a year ago
Vibrant, crisp screen. I love how little 'extra space' there is around the screen and buttons. No annoying extra PCB sticking out meaning that your final device can be very elegant. Programmed it using circuit python, the provided libraries are very easy to use. Made a little pomodoro timer in a day.
by Michael about Pico Display Pack 2.0 via REVIEWS.io
a year ago
We have used these Pico Display packs before and they are very reliable and good quality. Pimoroni always dispatch the items quickly and they are well packaged. A good company to deal with.
by Gareth about Pico Display Pack 2.0 via REVIEWS.io
a year ago
Out of the box, plug it in, play!! What more could one ask for. I've only used it with Pimoroni's version of MicroPython, but it looks and works great. I also need to compliment the fine folks at Pimoroni for having mostly in stock products, fast shipping, and great follow up to make sure one is satisfied. I'm a customer in the USA, but consider Pimoroni my goto for all things Raspberry related.
by Ross about Pico Display Pack 2.0 via REVIEWS.io
a year ago
The pico display pack has been everything is said it would be! It arrived well packaged too, which was very reassuring.
by Heather about Pico Display Pack 2.0 via REVIEWS.io

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