Subj : Re: New Pico2 To : Andy Burns From : Theo Date : Wed Aug 14 2024 11:20:10 Andy Burns wrote: > Andy Burns wrote: > > > > > > > They arrived today (quite good for ordering on Sunday) > > The tiny one lives up to its name, about the size of a mini SIM > card, even the PGA one is only an inch square, has nothing but 1/10" pin > layout, should be good for embedding ... I'll get a picoplus2 when the > second batch become available It's nice how they've integrated more stuff into the SiP, so you can make things smaller. The trouble with the original Pico was that it took up more board space than say an ESP32. Now, if somebody would do a module pin-compatible with the ESP32 modules that includes wifi, then things will be Very Interesting. Looks possible - there's a board with the RP2350 and an ESP32-WROOM side by side which shows the comparison: https://www.switch-science.com/collections/%E3%83%9E%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B3%E3%83%B3%E3%83%9C%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89/products/9796 and there might be space to get the wifi chip inside the footprint. Couldn't say whether the RF performance would let you though. What's nice also is that it's a Proper Arm Chip, rather than the weird Tensilica Xtensa CPU architecture in the base ESP32s. Some programming languages like Rust are better supported on Arm than on oddball CPUs. ESP32 have gone to RISC-V for some of the newer ones (but not all, so you can't get all the features with a RISC-V CPU) which is better, but with the RP2350 you get all the boxes ticked in one package. Aside from wifi, of course. (apparently the wireless version of the Pico 2 is due end of the year - meanwhile people are putting RP2350s with ESP32 modules on boards like the above. Maybe RPi have do some certification work before releasing). Theo --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 * Origin: Agency HUB, Dunedin - New Zealand | Fido<>Usenet Gateway (3:770/3) .