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What sort of project can a layman/non-electrical engineer do with bare chips like these? And don't you always end up reproducing an RPi (with barebone specs fo
by BbzzbB 5y ago
What sort of project can a layman/non-electrical engineer do with bare chips like these?
And don't you always end up reproducing an RPi (with barebone specs for your needs) to be able of putting them to use? Like don't you need to give them power, storage, plugs and co, from which point shouldn't you just use an RPi?
- buescher 5y agoFor the non-expert, there's the Pi Pico. If you were going to make a product out of something you prototyped with a Pi Pico, you'd want to put as much of your electronics as possible on one PCB for cost, size, manufacturability, and reliability.
- numpad0 5y agoRP2040/Pi Pico platform is confusingly a microcontroller platform, like Arduino, not a small Linux PC kind of system. It can run anything of complexity of PC BIOS or CP/M or Early MS-DOS, but can’t boot Linux Kernel at all. What this means is it probably solves Pro Micro price hikes due to widespread use in DIY keyboards. I’d been looking for an alternative to it and been wondering if it make sense to make a batch of CH55xduino board for a while.