An engineer has created a printed circuit board with an RP2040 microcontroller in the shape of a LEGO astronaut, complete with an RGB suit. In addition to the Raspberry Pi chip and RGB LEDs, the design includes several Stemma connectors and a USB-C port.
FigPI, like engineer Ben Shockley his development board calls, has a set of nine RGB lights on the right leg of the LEGO astronaut. Below that is a reset button. The left leg contains a ‘boot’ button that is also programmable, so users can reassign it to a different function. On the back are two Stemma connectors and a USB-C port. The board is programmable in CircuitPython, which makes it possible, among other things, to control the lighting, sensors and motors that can be connected to the board.
Earlier, Shockley already made a similar design, called the Mini SAM M4. It is powered by an Atmel SAMD51G19A processor and also has RGB leg lighting. The Mini SAM also includes 26 gpio pins. It is unclear whether the FigPi also contains such pins, since they are not visible in the photos anyway. The engineer offers the SAMD51G board in five different colors for sale on his website, for prices ranging between $25 and $30. Whether the FigPi will also be offered for sale, and how much it will cost, is unclear.
