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24 alternatives to Picopins, a CLI Pinout for the Raspberry Pi Pico

I was experimenting with ways to store pinout data to generate the Pico pinout website [1] rather than hand-editing HTML- and got carried away. Pretty much all the heavy lifting is done by the Python library "rich" [2], which makes colourised/structured output on the command-line dangerously easy. * [1] - https://pico.pinout.xyz * [2] - https://github.com/Textualize/rich

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Picopins, a CLI Pinout for the Raspberry Pi Pico launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    I've been trying to make accessible and beautiful GPIO pinouts since I started one for the Raspberry Pi in 2013 [1]. I've since given the Raspberry Pi Pico [2] and Pico 2 [3] microcontrollers the same treatment when they launched. Recently I've updated these with a new "Upside-down" view to complement the rear view, giving a pinout in the right orientation to match your project. The Pico sites are all hand-coded single HTML pages with supporting CSS and minimal JS. They are set up to optionally install as a "Desktop" web app. They also degrade into a somewhat usable table in lieu of CSS and…

    2025 · pico2.pinout.xyz · its alternatives →

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    I wanted to create an accessible alternative to the official Pico pinout image, offering more complete pin details, light/dark modes, screen-readable text, and at least some capacity to focus on the peripherals you’re interested in. It’s a sister site to the now ancient Raspberry Pi pinout (https://pinout.xyz/) which started out life hosted on a Raspberry Pi.

    2023 · pico.pinout.xyz · its alternatives →

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    Pictogon▲583

    The fastest and easiest way to create interactive images

    2017 · its alternatives →

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    Modo▲148

    I’ve built hardware projects for years, and the gap between “I want X” and “parts ordered, files ready to print” always took weeks. Modo compresses that. Describe what you want (e.g. “a portable CO2 monitor with a display and buzzer”) and it generates: - A bill of materials with real components (MPNs, not hallucinated parts) - A printable enclosure generated from actual part dimensions - Wiring diagrams, firmware boilerplate, and assembly instructions - Design validation (power budget, pin conflicts, mechanical fit) Everything streams in real time as each phase completes. The key idea is…

    Jan 2026 · modo.is · its alternatives →

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    Picyard▲286

    Turn your boring screenshots into beautiful looking images

    2023 · picyard.ubout.in · its alternatives →

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    Create beautiful screenshots with ease

    2024 · new-picyard.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    Picyard▲238

    Design tool to transform your images into stunning visuals

    2023 · picyard.in · its alternatives →

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    VGA/TV display on Raspberry Pico (Linux/cmake). Contribute to codaris/picovga-cmake development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Picyard▲122

    Transform your images into stunning visuals with Picyard

    2023 · picyard.ubout.in · its alternatives →

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    Pico▲125

    A stupidly simple and blazing fast, flat file CMS

    2014 · picocms.org · its alternatives →

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    Generate unique pictograms from any text

    2018 · luciorubeens.github.io · its alternatives →

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    The instant film camera DIY kit

    2022 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →

  13. 13IB

    3D printed mouse replacement with Raspberry Pi Pico and PMW3360

    2023 · xythobuz.de · its alternatives →

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    Pin, compress, and archive files with ease

    2024 · shakepin.click · its alternatives →

  15. 15

    Your digital partner to make technology human.

    2013 · pictr.io · its alternatives →

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    Hi fellow hackers, I've created a GPL licensed alternative to the proprietary PICO-8. It also addresses most of its shortcomings: - multilanguage support - uses UTF-8 encoding (BMP only) - sophisticated user input methods (direct codepoint, composition, Hiragana and Katakana etc.) - provides a large and efficient API library for your scripts - supports C, BASIC, Assembly and Lua scripts (more to come) - supports wide variety of file formats (Amiga MOD, MIDI, Tiled TMX, PNG, etc.) - capable of importing PICO-8 and TIC-80 cartridges - runs in your browser:…

    2023 · bztsrc.gitlab.io · its alternatives →

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    This is an upgrade of a tool I created 15 years ago in Python to learn OOP and solve some inadequacies in the HDR stacking tools I could find at the time. The problem was, none of them were really "batch friendly". None of them properly preserved the metadata I wanted them to stuff into the output file. There were probably some other reasons also, I just can't remember them now. It got the job done, but was very slow. Python was what I knew at the time and even with NumPy, I was limited in the speed I could squeeze out of it. (I also made some very specific, conscious, architectural choices…

    Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A tiny, hackable BitTorrent client. Contribute to picotorrent/picotorrent development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I was tired of looking in two places when referring to the datasheet for pin functions and locations. This simple one-page website brings the RP2350A's pins, alt functions and notes together into a single table. You can click pin functions to mark the ones you're using in a design and view them on the QFN-60 minimap- useful for routing or finding the right pins to scope. I have more features planned- such as JSON export (so you can run your own code-gen or symbol gen tools on pin configurations) and minimap rotation. This is basically pico2.pinout.xyz for engineers.

    2025 · rp2350a.pinout.xyz · its alternatives →

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    Hello internet folks! I'm happy to share the first TestFlight release of Glyph3D, a 3D text visualizer for macOS and iOS. It's free, supports pretty much any utf8 data, and is a pretty interesting way to navigate your repositories or data directories without the limitations of standard text windows! Download and bookmark for macOS and iOS: https://github.com/tikimcfee/LookAtThat/ - You should be able to download public repos from GitHub and render them. - Play with opening and closing windows. I've disabled many of the in-flight features to keep user confusion down,…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    PicoSSG▲12

    Small static site generator, still does everything you need

    2025 · picossg.dev · its alternatives →

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    I made clippy because pbcopy can't do something I needed every day: copy files to paste into GUI apps. When you pbcopy < image.png, you get raw bytes instead of a file that Slack or email can use. Clippy fixes this: - clippy report.pdf → ⌘V into any app uploads the file - curl image.png | clippy → pipes become pasteable files - clippy *.jpg → multiple files at once - Text files still work like pbcopy Technical: Direct Objective-C bindings via CGo. Copies file references (like Finder), not contents. Auto-cleans temp files. No AppleScript hacks. Install: brew install…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Download Pins for Pinboard by Quang Anh Do on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more apps like Pins for Pinboard.

    2021 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Simplest Pin Creator

    2022 · its alternatives →

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