Soldering Header Pins forRaspberry PI Pico

The Raspberry PI Pico and Pico-W come in soldered (Pico-H and Pico-WH) and unsoldered versions (Pico and Pico-W). You pay slightly more for the soldered version.

In this video, I show how to easily solder the header pins onto the Pico. Unlike the Pico-H which uses a JST-SH socket, I solder straight and 90-degree pins onto the SWD port. Soldering straight header pins onto the GPIO pins allows us to place the Pico straight into a breadboard for project work.

PCB prototyping, assembly, 3D printing, CNC, sheet metal fabrication and injection moulding.

[chrisjenkins]

Many thanks for making this video. It's really useful for me to see how to solder pins onto the SWD port. I look forward to giving that a try in the near future so I can make use of my Pi Debug Probe with a Pico W.