Lucky readers who found a Raspberry Pi under the tree this Christmas and are wondering about the GPIO pins should look no further than a free PDF, produced by NODE & Baptiste and blogged about by Adafruit.
As much a work of art as a reference guide, the PDF is strikingly designed and covers a multitude of boards - including the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W and Raspberry Pi Pico - cables, modules, and other electronics components. There are too many to list here (130 in total), but happily there's a full rundown on the official site. Each page in the PDF lists the functions of a particular device's pins, and is accompanied by a web page with further technical detail - some link to Wikipedia, others to official datasheets. This reference guide is set to rival The Art of Electronics for a place on maker's (virtual) bookshelves.
You may have heard of NODE before, they are responsible for a number of wonderous Raspberry Pi projects including a slimmed down Raspberry Pi 3, Raspberry Pi 4 mini server and a "nano" server based on a Raspberry Pi Zero which fits into a wall wart.
Article continues belowCurrently at version 0.2, the Pinouts PDF is regularly updated with new information, and is completely free to download and admire. Should you wish to support the project, a range of T-shirts is available featuring the achingly beautiful monochromatic line drawings that make the PDF so handsome. We hope that a beautifully bound coffee-table tome is in the project’s future.
