Raspberry Silicon: Raspberry Pi Pico now on sale at $4

Re:Raspberry Silicon: Raspberry Pi Pico now on sale at $4 by intricatedetail on Thursday January 21, 2021 @08:44AM (#25858684)

If there is no schematic and you can't buy the chip alone e.g. on Mouser then that's a pass. You can't do anything serious otherwise and you get locked in. Better get something like stm32 or teensy.

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Re:Raspberry Silicon: Raspberry Pi Pico now on sale at $4 by tpmx on Thursday January 21, 2021 @10:47AM (#25860079)

While I agree you with you in principle, for once they really seem to have gone all out on being fully open, unlike in the past. Kudos.

From the linked blog post:

We hope to make RP2040 broadly available in the second quarter of 2021.

Schematics for a demo board/etc and a very detailed datasheet:

https://datasheets.raspberrypi.org/rp2040/hardware_design_wi...

https://datasheets.raspberrypi.org/rp2040/rp2040_datasheet.p...

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Re:Raspberry Silicon: Raspberry Pi Pico now on sale at $4 by intricatedetail on Thursday January 21, 2021 @01:55PM (#25862552)

Looks like I was wrong! That's a great news

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Re:Raspberry Silicon: Raspberry Pi Pico now on sale at $4 by tpmx on Thursday January 21, 2021 @02:17PM (#25862849)

Agreed. I guess that very neat programmable IO could be considered as something that would cause lock-in, but in this case, I think the lock-in factor is fair - they are delivering something reasonable unique.

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