Raspberry pi Pico

[banman]

Not too sure if this has been posted before here.

I was just browsing the web and stumbled upon these interesting links regarding the new Raspberry pi Pico.


https://geoffg.net/picomite.html.

https://geoffg.net/picomitevga.html

https://hackaday.com/2021/06/11/vga-lib ... y-pi-pico/







It appears emulatotion of early 8 bit computers is possible with the Raspberry pi Pico.

Very interesting

[eslapion]

The beauty of the Pico is that it runs at 133 MHz which is above 8x faster than regular Arduinos, has two cores you can program independently so one could say it is a pair of Arduino nano in one single package (and they happend to be 8x faster than normal) with no less than 2MB Flash for programs.

Also, if you turn off the LED (GPIO25), it draws a meager 10mA to run at these speeds.

All this for 5.75$CAD, something like 1/3 the price of a regular Arduino.

[banman]

Hi eslapion,


Yes, I agree.

The price point is great for such a versatile microcontroller. I can definitely see many Commodore related projects being created around the Rasberry Pi Pico.

[banman]

AU$3.40 69%OFF | RP2040-Zero RP2040 for Raspberry Pi Microcontroller PICO Development Board Module Dual-core Cortex M0+ Processor 2MB Flash
https://a.aliexpress.com/_mM8aF2U

[banman]

This product is most undoubtedly a clone, ripoff, etc...

I believe that the RP2040 microcontroller chip is manufactured in Taiwan by TSMC.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/raspberry ... -the-pico/

[eslapion]

This product is most undoubtedly a clone, ripoff, etc...

Last year, I bought a couple of Arduino nano clones that were selling on eBay. They were such an insane battle to get working, a horrible labyrinth of getting drivers for this and that.

IMHO, the real Pi Pico is so inexpensive it's not worth the wasted time to go for something else if you want the least expensive uC.

[banman]

Hi eslapion,



I had some issues as well with an Arduino mega board for a 3d printer ingot years ago. No matter what I did I couldn't get it to connect with my laptop.

It turned out to be a Chinese clone USB port driver. It took me some time to figure this out.

https://www.google.com/search?q=whag+is ... e&ie=UTF-8

IMHO, the real Pi Pico is so inexpensive it's not worth the wasted time to go for something else if you want the least expensive uC.

Totally agree with this.

On a side note I see some of the Rasberry Pi Pico boards are getting harder to distinguish between the real and fake, ripoff, etc. ones....

https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=337976