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
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.
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?
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.
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
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...
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.
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?
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?
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.
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.