Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W on sale now at $7

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-pico-2-w-on-sale-now/

by schappim • 2 years ago

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guenthert• 2 years ago

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?

avian• 2 years ago

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...

ZiiS• 2 years ago

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.

keiferski2• 2 years ago

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?

unwind• 2 years ago

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.

keiferski2• 2 years ago

Sounds like the types of projects I can make with a Pico will be rather limited if I am a beginner. Thanks!

singularity2001• 2 years ago

So it’s basically like one of those Arduino boards that you can get clones from China for a few cents?

MathMonkeyMan• 2 years ago

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.

kanwisher• 2 years ago

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

soneil• 2 years ago

I don't think this is an issue the Pico has had. Regardless, the first reseller that came to mind (thepihut, UK) doesn't seem to have any issues selling me multiples at RRP.

ma5ter• 2 years ago

Hope there will be tinygo support for it soon

Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W on sale now at $7

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