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Pre-Assembled Adafruit PiCowbell Adalogger for Pico - MicroSD, RTC & STEMMA QT

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A pre-assembled add-on for Raspberry Pi Pico (and compatibles) with microSD card socket, RTC and STEMMA QT connector.

Ding dong! Hear that? It's the PiCowbell ringing, letting you know that the new Adafruit PiCowbell Adalogger is in stock and ready to assist your Raspberry Pi Pico and Pico W project with handy hardware and datalogging.

This version comes with Pico 20-pin stacking headers pre-soldered on. We also stock the unassembled version.

The PiCowbell Adalogger is the same size and shape as a Pico and is intended to socket underneath to make your next data logging or data reading project super easy. Micro SD card socket? Yes! STEMMA QT / Qwiic connector for fast I2C? Indeed. Real Time Clock with battery backup for accurate timekeeping? Of course!

The PiCowbell Adalogger provides you with:

  • Right angle JST SH connector for I2C / Stemma QT / Qwiic connection. Provides 3V, GND, IO4 (SDA), and IO5 (SCL)
  • MicroSD card holder for adding as much storage as you could possibly want for reading or writing. Connected to SPI pins 16, 18, 19 and card select on 17. Optional card detect line can be connected to pin 15.
  • PCF8523 Real Time Clock with CR1220 Coin cell backup for many years of timekeeping. Set the time once using our example sketches, and then you can data-log with accurate timestamps. Uses I2C.
  • Reset button - Press to restart your program
  • Many pads on the Adalogger have a duplicate hole pad next to it for solder-jumpering
  • The ground pads have white silkscreen rectangles to easily identify, plus one long ground strip near the reset button
  • Gold-plated pads for easy soldering

If using the Philhower Arduino core, the Wire peripheral is already set up to use IO4 and IO5. If using CircuitPython or MicroPython, you'll need to let the code know to look at 4+5 for SDA+SCL pins.

Does not come with a micro SD card or a coin cell battery. A CR1220 coin cell is required to use the RTC battery-backup capabilities! We don't include one by default to make shipping easier for those abroad, so use any CR1220 you have handy.

Technical Details

Revision History:

  • As of October 28, 2025 - We added a breakout hole for the square wave output from the RTC.
RoHS 2 2011 65 EU Compliant
RoHS 2 2015 863 EU Compliant

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A pre-assembled add-on for Raspberry Pi Pico (and compatibles) with microSD card socket, RTC and STEMMA QT connector.

ADA6355

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