Raspberry Pi Pico RP2040 Review

[@JayVBear45]

I have watched several reviews and reveals of this board and yours is the best yet. Concise and easy to understand. Thank you!

[@ElektorTV]

Glad it was helpful!

[@illya4479]

Yeah nice board, cool analog of STM32

[@ElektorTV]

Thanks!

[@ArjanvanVught]

Yes, the foundation is working into the STM32 market ....

[@shadow7037932]

@@ArjanvanVught For the hobby market? Sure/absolutely. But ST Micro will still hold fast to the industrial markets. The vast array of STM32 options available is crazy and you can tailor the choice of MCU to a product extremely well.

[@BaronVonBiffo]

The "music" between segments is quite dreadful. It hurts the ears if the volume is set to adequately hear the speaker.

[@pratth9883]

Nice overview! Thanks, Elektor! This is pretty exciting

[@ElektorTV]

It really is!

[@JanTec3D]

Thanks for the beautiful video, but you wouldn't hear the beeping in space :)

[@AdityaMehendale]

Hmm. The OP seems to have deleted the thread about "When one should choose a ESP32 vs. Teensy vs. 2040Pico". Nevertheless, would love to see a comparison :)

[@BitsOfBoris]

+1

[@Voyager_2]

@@BitsOfBoris yes this is al sponsored stuff you can not talk about the EPS32 that shows that this thing has no reason for existing.

[@larsforsberg8059]

Is it suitable to run an RTOS such as FreeRtos?

[@ElektorTV]

Yes it is suitable.

[@ArjanvanVught]

Ethernet would be a challenge

[@miliohm]

Great explanation

[@ElektorTV]

Glad you think so!

[@r1273m]

Interesting but the main drawback for me is the lack of WiFi. I use ESP8266/ESP32 which have WiFi and are in the same price bracket.

[@ArjanvanVught]

And there is no EMAC PHY

[@jousis_]

I don't get the excitment for this chip. Is it the price? Because featurewise is meh.

[@typingcat]

The music volume is too loud and constant replays at every black subtitle screen are annoying.

[@PhG1961]

Zeker interessant !

[@ElektorTV]

Bedankt!

[@rgco2266]

Thanks! Very nice! I ordered 4 to start playing with. I've been on the lookout for an Arduino upgrade, but wasn't happy with STM, nor ESP mostly because of lack of documentation. This might be it! Massimo should be worried indeed!

[@brianwesley28]

I ordered 4 today, as well, before they're sold out and/or the price increases.

[@tobiasfunke8990]

Massimo isn't worried at all, as he already ordered a bunch of RP2040s to build a new Adruino Nano device based on it.

[@ChrisHalden007]

Great video!!

[@ElektorTV]

Thanks!

[@meetthefloccers8112]

Not impressed ESP32 blows this away.

[@rikilshah]

ESP32 is a workhorse with absolutely mind blowing peripherals.

[@meetthefloccers8112]

@@wojtek-33 you are right, esp only has the useless features like Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Oh, and I have made some really nice 3 phase servo motor controllers using MCPWM.

[@2kBofFun]

@@meetthefloccers8112 With nice Chinese backdoors. I want them in all my projects!

[@Edwinthebreadwin]

Does it have camera support or is it bit bangable? I've not found anything on this yet?

[@EmbeddedClub]

People who got this board hit your likes here !

[@cr6925]

Libraries?

[@noutram1000]

I'm wondering what people will use the programmable i/o blocks for... picocontrollers!

[@tranjavanadbia123]

6800 MHZ *

[@technobird22]

Nice!

[@ElektorTV]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@JohnStopman]

Oh, you're dutch *;-)*

[@marcello4258]

haha ja denk ik ook

[@JohnStopman]

@@marcello4258 Wij Nederlanders hebben veelal het slechtste 'accent' van al (soms klinkt het zelfs hilarisch) :D

[@marcello4258]

@@JohnStopman hahaha zeker ;) ..maar beter dan de duitsers. ah.. btw ik ben duits :P

[@user-yv2cz8oj1k]

Pity it isn't the Raspberry Pikelet. :D

[@armincal9834]

Id rather design my own boards :p

[@johnhoeppner1569]

This new entry from the Pi guys isn't quite in the league of the ESP32, especially given the lack of wifi/bluetooth support. It seems to be better suited to compete with the STM32F line of micros although maybe it's just a product that's too little too late.

[@2kBofFun]

If compilation time is ok it might be interesting. I loathe the ESP32 for giving time to make and drink coffee while compiling. For me the most elegant board, albeith a little expensive, remains the ItsyBitsy M4. Especially how fast compilation and uploading goes. And they have decent power: 2 DAC's, 120Mhz, 2MB flash, probably outperforming a PiPico running Python. STM's look nice on paper, but they are not plug-and-play.

[@153SCORN]

I bought a pico board once. The code was so advanced I had no idea how to use it. I picked up Arduino in a matter of days. My pico still in its box where it will remain till the end of time.

[@ElektorTV]

You are probably referring to an ESP32 Pico Kit?

[@153SCORN]

@MichaelKingsfordGray I don't claim to have a memory. In fact my memory is so shocking. But even with a faulty brain I still wrote some controller code that rivals what most of you guys will ever do. lol 🤣 rain Man got some skills.

[@darknessblades]

Now the question everyone wants to know, can you make a PICO PI cluster with it

[@plcworker]

8:00 Sounds more like Steve Sanghi

[@Kw1161]

I see on the Raspberry Pi's site they are showing it emulating a BBC Micro computer, so maybe it can by a pocket emulator with just a few components.....

[@Voyager_2]

If you want a pocket emulator get a 2 euro EPS32 and flash ESP_8_BIT on it. It wil give you a NES, Sega Master System, Atari 400/800, XEGS, and Atari emulator. You can controll it with a bluetooth controller. Only external part is a 10NF cap for the audio.

[@Kw1161]

@@Voyager_2 Thanks for the information! I was looking at the Odriod Go which contains that processor but your solution sounds better.

[@marcello4258]

finally.. this seems much more appealing to me than a RP..

[@charlesm127]

What will I do with all those Blue Pill boards now?

[@charlesm127]

@MichaelKingsfordGray ??? Poser

I am thrilled 😊

[@foxabilo]

So no windows 10 dev environment then, or am I missing the easy to install Windows VS code extension?

[@ElektorTV]

The Getting Started with Raspberry Pi Pico guide has a section on installing the toolchain on Windows, including Visual Studio Code.

[@foxabilo]

@@ElektorTV Yup, I missed it somehow 🤦‍♂️ Cheers

[@boz89]

Does this board have a SDIO interface?

[@ElektorTV]

The board does not, but the PIO blocks of the RP2040 can be used to create one.

[@marcello4258]

any affordable zigbee extensions?

[@ElektorTV]

As the Raspberry Pi Pico is brand new, it is a bit early to say which kind of extension boards will be developed for it in the (near) future. But it can probably easily connect to existing affordable Zigbee extension boards.

[@Workshopshed]

There are other boards already for this chip, one from AdaFruit and one from Pimoroni

[@32_bits]

This could be competition for the mid Teensy range

[@foxabilo]

it will kill the teensy dead in 12 months

[@billfusionenterprise]

I KNOW why they may have done this, look at how many raspberry pi industrial products are out there. They want to go after the micro-controller market like the m-bed, that is why the canstalations.

[@shadow7037932]

Exactly. Plus the low cost makes this a cheap enough plug in module for low volume production runs. But it's unlikely to unseat the STM32s and such in highly integrated/optimized products though.

[@billfusionenterprise]

@@shadow7037932 not today or tomorrow, but considering the pi makers are aimed at kids and STEM, they could start winding up in future products

[@billfusionenterprise]

probably on ebay for 20 times the price

[@jyvben1520]

only for fools, adafruit seems to a lot of stock according to lady ada, will sell a few to each buyer ...

[@billfusionenterprise]

@@jyvben1520 good thing she does that

[@billfusionenterprise]

@@wojtek-33 trouble is covid restrictions here

[@Chris-ZL]

good content. the loud noises woke the family.

[@imperiosheriff]

it not interesting, esp32 is better

[@Voyager_2]

@@wojtek-33 the pico has no reason to exist.

[@webosm6494]

No other products offer a good price point says Raspberry Pi company disguised as a charity. Normally that would be called unfair competition.

[@bonzobanana1]

Why is it unfair, they are using profits for charitable work rather than paying share holders etc? Are you suggesting they profits are going elsewhere?

[@webosm6494]

@@bonzobanana1 Taxes for one thing. Sure you will find lots of other interesting stuff when you look into it.