> The Pico and Pico W are strange The pico competes exactly in the same world where Arduino does. The Arduino Uno still sells for 30$ despite a very old and li

> The Pico and Pico W are strange The pico competes exactly in the same world where Arduino does. The Arduino Uno still sells for 30$ despite a very old and limited AVR chip. Pico is a great deal compared to that, at 5$ for a double core ARM cortex M0 (and more flash, ram, real DAC, etc). Yes, the ESP32 might also be a good deal in that space. ESP used to have their own weird architecture though? I think newer ones are RISC-V? Some people might prefer a somewhat more standard cortex-M.