Introducing the Mcfly, a barebones RP2040 board designed from the ground up to be compact, simple and slim. With a USB port that breaks away after initial programming the overall thickness of the board can be reduced to 1.6mm. An X and Y footprint of ~19x19mm makes this stripped back board suitable for internal installation in the switch. No stone was left unturned in the design of this board, with all the features of a conventional rp2040 dev board present including a debug WS2812 LED and a lots of gpio broken out to as well as the inclusion of a 6 pin fpc connector. Despite the breakaway connector the Mcfly can be updated too, using a 5 pin 1.27mm header the usb section can be either temporarily soldered back on, or a pin header attached and it held in place whilst the board is reprogrammed.
Upon completion of testing the Mcfly will be released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike licence, opening the door for design improvements and alterations by the community, as well as commercialisation by a third party, at this moment i do not plan to commercialise this design myself, I simply dont have the time to sell these personally. If you would be interested in selling these or know someone who is please get in touch! This wont be price competitive with a 2040-Zero, in low quantities that's simply not possible.
The goal is for this to be a community driven open source solution that simplifies the rp2040 to the greatest extent possible whilst still being reasonably low cost and easy to assemble for all sorts of development tasks, using off the shelf parts you can get from any component retailer
As it stands the hardware layout is largely complete for now, pending feedback from testers, components have been ordered and the PCBs have also been ordered. I should recieve them in a week ish and can build a few.
If you have any questions or feedback ask away!
Upon completion of testing the Mcfly will be released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike licence, opening the door for design improvements and alterations by the community, as well as commercialisation by a third party, at this moment i do not plan to commercialise this design myself, I simply dont have the time to sell these personally. If you would be interested in selling these or know someone who is please get in touch! This wont be price competitive with a 2040-Zero, in low quantities that's simply not possible.
The goal is for this to be a community driven open source solution that simplifies the rp2040 to the greatest extent possible whilst still being reasonably low cost and easy to assemble for all sorts of development tasks, using off the shelf parts you can get from any component retailer
As it stands the hardware layout is largely complete for now, pending feedback from testers, components have been ordered and the PCBs have also been ordered. I should recieve them in a week ish and can build a few.
If you have any questions or feedback ask away!
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