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So, heres my biggest question, this has 40 pins of IO, are these the same 40 pins of IO as a "normal" Raspberry Pi? I wont be the last to ask this question, so
by techdragon 6y ago
So, heres my biggest question, this has 40 pins of IO, are these the same 40 pins of IO as a "normal" Raspberry Pi? I wont be the last to ask this question, so they should really document this so that people don't need to pull up pinout lists and compare them to answer this kind of obvious question.
If they are compatible, they should release either a version with all 40 pins on the same side, or an adapter PCB this can be soldered onto. A big part of what makes a RPi boards so useful is the ecosystem of HATs ands Shields that are compatible with the 40 pin header of the Raspberry Pi.
- magicalhippo 6y agoAs can be seen from the datasheet, the pins on the Pico are not the same. You could probably map most of them up, given that the pins on the Pico are flexible. But not sure if that makes much sense, I imagine you'd only need a single UART/I2C/SPI connection between the regular Pi and the Pico in most cases. What perhaps could be more interesting would be a Pi+Pico combo board, where most of the IOs come from the Pico.
- techdragon 6y agoI actually have a few different Arduino Raspberry Pi hybrid boards (a few are passive pin mapping type things, but others are full Arduino boards built to use the Raspberry Pi as a host) and this was the sorts of use cases that had me thinking about pin compatibility.