Don't forget software costs. Raspberry Pi foundation is known for excellent software and Pico seems to be intended that way too. And that's money well spent, I

Don't forget software costs. Raspberry Pi foundation is known for excellent software and Pico seems to be intended that way too. And that's money well spent, I think. If I'm a hobbyist and am planning on using a grand total of three microcontroller boards, than paying $2 x 3 for "blue pill boards", and then spending hours and hours debugging some obscure problem... that doesn't look like all that great of a deal, compared to paying $5 x 3 and making some use of polished examples and a nice build system: https://github.com/raspberrypi/pico-examples https://github.com/raspberrypi/pico-examples