Raspberry Pi Pico Stripboard

A stripboard PCB designed for the Raspberry Pi Pico. Compatible with Pico W also.

Features

• Neatly sized to fit the Pico family of boards
• Reversible design—flip it any way you need
• Large ground plane

Purpose

Use this stripboard to permanently solder through-hole components to a Raspberry Pi Pico, designed for tidy, complete projects that don’t need a custom PCB. Unlike protoboards, the footprint of this stripboard matches the Pico’s within a couple tenths of a millimeter.

The stripboard has a breadboard-like layout of horizontal rows of holes connected to each other. Both the left and right sides have four holes per row, each. This allows up to three components to be soldered to each pin of the Pico. The rows connected to ground are an exception. Because the Pico’s ground pins are mirrored on the left and right sides, the rows connected to ground are connected all the way across the stripboard.

Aside from the ground rows, the traces between holes in the same row can be drilled or scratched out to separate the holes if needed.

Breakout board for the Texas Instruments TUSB320 chip and a USB-C connector (16+8 dummy pins).

Features

• Headers for each pin of the TUSB320 chip and USB-C connector
• Built-in connections between the USB-C connector’s CC1 and CC2 pins and the TUSB320 chip’s respective CC1 and CC2 pins
• Pads for smoothing capacitors connected to voltage sources, namely VBUS and VDD. Smoothing capacitors are typically optional and you can leave them off (do not short to ground!) but filtering noise is a good practice.
• A pad for the 887K ohm resistor between the TUSB320 chip’s VBUS_DET pin and the USB-C connector’s VBUS pin. Note: VBUS_DET and VBUS are not connected by default.
• A jumper pad to connect VBUS_DET to VBUS with an 887K ohm resistor in between. You can either bridge the pads or use a 0 ohm resistor.

BOM

Top board of a GBA SP USB-C mod. Order in 0.8mm thickness.

Bottom board here: https://oshpark.com/shared_projects/Fu0z0WjL

Requires two 5.1k 0402 resistors and a USB-C connector (6 + 18 dummy pins). 3D-printable spacer here: https://github.com/nMinhBang/GBA-SP_USB-C/blob/master/GBAUSBC.stl

Bottom board of a GBA SP USB-C mod. Order with 1.6mm (default) thickness.

Top board here: https://oshpark.com/shared_projects/sET5JmVX

A flex PCB to retrofit a USB-C connector with 5.1k pull-down resistors to enable C-to-C power. Designed for 16+8 dummy pin USB-C connectors with 12 leads. Open sourced here: https://github.com/ide/usb-c-to-c-power-mod.

Be sure to select the “Flex” option at checkout.