| ▲ | Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W on sale now at $7(raspberrypi.com) |
| 44 points by schappim 7 hours ago | 13 comments |
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| ▲ | avian 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Any recent news on the GPIO issue on RP2350? Will they ship updated silicon at some point? https://hackaday.com/2024/09/04/the-worsening-raspberry-pi-r... So far it seems the message from Raspberry Pi is "we documented the bug, so the issue is closed": https://github.com/raspberrypi/pico-feedback/issues/401#issu... |
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| ▲ | ZiiS 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | No news; at their scale seems more likely we will see a Pico 3 than an errata only respin but that is only a guess.
Obviously, it would be much better not to have errata, but are you breadboarding a Pico to try and do custom touch sensing? This is much more an issue for custom PCBs trying to use the bare chip. |
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| ▲ | guenthert 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| So hot of the press the link in the article goes to the documentation of the Pico 2. Is there documentation for the 2W available? |
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| ▲ | kanwisher 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| wonder if you'll be able to actually buy them at this price? the ESP32s can be bought for like $5 and main competitor to this board, I would much prefer this cause the documentation is so much better |
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| ▲ | keiferski 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| As someone wanting to get into electronics, DIY, Raspberry Pi, etc., is this a good starting point? Or do you recommend getting another (low budget) Pi first instead? |
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| ▲ | unwind 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | The Pico is a microcontroller, typically programmed directly "to the metal" using either your own code or RPi's SDKs. It is very different from the regular Pi boards, which are single-board computers that run a full Linux using gigabytes of RAM. The Pico has 264 KB (original) of RAM, or a massive 520 KB on the Pico 2. | | |
| ▲ | singularity2001 8 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | So it’s basically like one of those Arduino boards that you can get clones from China for a few cents? | |
| ▲ | keiferski 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Sounds like the types of projects I can make with a Pico will be rather limited if I am a beginner. Thanks! | | |
| ▲ | hasbot an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | Your knowledge will be the limiting factor. For the same price though you can get an Adafruit Trinket (https://www.adafruit.com/product/1501) which has a lot of potential. | |
| ▲ | JohnVideogames 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | The Pi Pico W 2 can run micropython, which is a reasonably limited and fun version of python that is accessible for beginners.
If the types of projects you have in mind will involve reading simple sensors, turning on lights / speakers / beepers, or responding to buttons then you'll have a good time! | |
| ▲ | sokoloff 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | That's not necessarily a bad thing. If you want to build a blinking LED thing, a USB controller, or similar small IoT thing, I find microcontrollers to be easier and more natural than running an entire Linux single-board-computer to do it. I might break it down as: if you know C/C++, I'd start with a microcontroller [Arduino, ESP32, RP2040/2350, etc]; if you know Python, there are still micros that run it, but a full Pi might be an easier starting point for you. (Either way, if you end up doing this for more than a year, you're going to eventually do both...) Don't think of the microcontroller storage specs in relation to a modern PC. I use an EV CAN diagnostics tool that runs on an ATmega328 (32K of program storage and 2K of RAM). |
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| ▲ | MathMonkeyMan 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | It's good if you just want to talk to some sensors or add logic to a motor. I enjoy learning about all of the low level details. |
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