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I part think the Raspberry Pi Pico is much more significant than most people have appreciated. Programming with the C SDK on it is quite ridiculously entertaini

I part think the Raspberry Pi Pico is much more significant than most people have appreciated. Programming with the C SDK on it is quite ridiculously entertaining, but it is clear the hardware of the RP2040 is close to inspired. Were I ARM I'd be far more concerned about a RISC-V spin off of the pico than the mainline pi devices.

Havoc 3y ago
I’d say pi zero w is more significant. The second something has wifi it opens up a lot of options on projects that just don’t exist with airgapped
- incanus77 3y ago
  There is a Pi Pico W as well.
  - Havoc 3y ago
    ah right...completely forgot. Yes - that's probably a better answer than zero w.
m463 3y ago
I see the pico as a microcontroller, which is a different animal in comparison to the general-purpose cpu+gpu+peripherals of the arm pi that runs a full OS.
fragmede 3y ago
The Pico is a failure of Raspberry branding. As mentioned it's basically a microcontroller, doesn't run Linux, and doesn't hook up to a monitor or keyboard/mouse in same fashion. Which is fine, it's quite powerful! But imo should have used different branding to indicate thus as it's quite a different adventure.
- askvictor 3y ago
  On the flip side, there are now Arduino boards that run Linux. I think from a branding perspective, you'd be mad not to capitalise on the branding you've already got.
snvzz 3y ago
RP2040 is so two years ago. Milk-V Duo[0] is where it's at, now. 0. https://milkv.io/duo https://milkv.io/duo
- ChickeNES 3y ago
  That's more expensive, doesn't come with WiFi, and doesn't have the PIO cores that are the RP2040's true strength
  - snvzz 3y ago
    You can dedicate one of the cores to realtime PIO tasks. Alternatively, the BeagleV-Fire[0] FPGA got you covered, but that's not as cheap. 0. https://www.beagleboard.org/blog/2023-11-02-beaglev-fire-announcement https://www.beagleboard.org/blog/2023-11-02-beaglev-fire-ann...

Havoc 3y ago

I’d say pi zero w is more significant. The second something has wifi it opens up a lot of options on projects that just don’t exist with airgapped

incanus77 3y ago
There is a Pi Pico W as well.
- Havoc 3y ago
  ah right...completely forgot. Yes - that's probably a better answer than zero w.

m463 3y ago

I see the pico as a microcontroller, which is a different animal in comparison to the general-purpose cpu+gpu+peripherals of the arm pi that runs a full OS.

fragmede 3y ago

The Pico is a failure of Raspberry branding. As mentioned it's basically a microcontroller, doesn't run Linux, and doesn't hook up to a monitor or keyboard/mouse in same fashion. Which is fine, it's quite powerful! But imo should have used different branding to indicate thus as it's quite a different adventure.

askvictor 3y ago
On the flip side, there are now Arduino boards that run Linux. I think from a branding perspective, you'd be mad not to capitalise on the branding you've already got.

snvzz 3y ago

RP2040 is so two years ago. Milk-V Duo[0] is where it's at, now. 0. https://milkv.io/duo https://milkv.io/duo

ChickeNES 3y ago
That's more expensive, doesn't come with WiFi, and doesn't have the PIO cores that are the RP2040's true strength
- snvzz 3y ago
  You can dedicate one of the cores to realtime PIO tasks. Alternatively, the BeagleV-Fire[0] FPGA got you covered, but that's not as cheap. 0. https://www.beagleboard.org/blog/2023-11-02-beaglev-fire-announcement https://www.beagleboard.org/blog/2023-11-02-beaglev-fire-ann...