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A comprehensive KiCad Library for the Raspberry Pi Pico 🥧
Providing footprints, symbols, and models for the module in its various forms and implementations
Features
- KiCad 7.0 support
- Schematics with alternate pin definitions to select more specific behaviours for each GPIO, as well as specify power directionality
- Generic and specific footprints for the Pico and Pico W
- Through-hole and surface-mount footprints with and without mounting holes
- Hand-solderable test points (ie. USB signals) in footprints with underside castellations
- Optional pin labels as an add-on footprint
- Optional keepout zone for 2.4 GHz RF on shared footprints
- Diverse 3D models for surface-mount, through-hole, and socketed forms of the Pico, Pico H, Pico W, and Pico WH using photorealistic materials
- Majority adherence to the KiCad Library Conventions version 3.0.34
How do I use this library?
- Ensure you are running KiCad 7.0 or later
- Download the most recent release of the library
- Unzip the file contents
- If not already created, create a new KiCad project
- Move the root library directory
RaspberryPi_Pico/to a folder anywhere within your KiCad projectIf using the library globally, move
RaspberryPi_Pico/to a globally accessible location - Open the relevant KiCad project
- Select
Preferences > Manage Footprint Libraries... - Select the
Project Specific LibrariestabIf using the library globally, select the
Global Librarirestab instead - Click the folder icon in the lower left to
Add Existing - Navigate to and select
.../RaspberryPi_Pico/Module_RaspberryPi_Pico.pretty/ - Click
OK - Select
Preferences > Manage Symbol Libraries... - Select the
Project Specific LibrariestabIf using the library globally, select the
Global Libariestab instead - Click the folder icon in the lower left to
Add existing library to table - Navigate to and select
.../RaspberryPi_Pico/MCU_Module_RaspberryPi_Pico.kicad_sym - Click
OK
To use, simply add a symbol to your schematic as you would any other; symbols should be located under the section MCU_Module_RaspberryPi_Pico, and footprints under Module_RaspberryPi_Pico.
You're all set to design exciting new circuit boards using the Raspberry Pi Pico! 🎉
Further reading
Other KiCad implementations of the Raspberry Pi Pico:
Some adjacent solutions I encountered during my research for this project
- Official Raspberry Pi KiCad library files for the Pico and Pico W provided in Hardware design with the RP2040, Section 3
- A detailed SketchUp model of the surface-mount Pico incorporating the above Pico library
- A similarly versatile library found on the KiCad forums for all the Pico variants, including a castellated add-on board footprint
Pico W antenna radiation pattern resources:
- Great teardown featured:
- Antenna info:
- Possible antenna radiation pattern:
- https://abracon.com/parametric/antennas/PRO-EB-592
- https://abracon.com/parametric/antennas/PRO-EB-594
- https://embeddedcomputing.com/technology/analog-and-power/power-semiconductors-wireless-charging/a-lesson-in-wireless-engineering-from-the-raspberry-pi
- https://antennatestlab.com/antenna-examples/raspberry-pi-model-3b-antenna-evaluation-gain-pattern
License
This work is licensed under the MIT No Attribution
license, the text of which should be found in LICENSE.txt
in the root directory of this project alongside this README.
The license applies to all relevant files contained within the directory it resides, including sub-directories, unless otherwise overridden by the presence of another LICENSE file, or license header within a file.