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Re:Die Shots of the Raspberry Pi RP2040 by MuffinFlavored on Friday January 29, 2021 @02:51PM (#25961538)
cheap microcontrollers:

ESP32: WiFI, no USB

RP2040: USB, no WiFi

:(

Re:Die Shots of the Raspberry Pi RP2040 by mmoskal on Friday January 29, 2021 @09:09PM (#25965307)
ESP32-S2 has both WiFi and USB. It's essentially (the classic) ESP32 cut to a single core, 320KB RAM, and with Bluetooth removed; however it does include USB.

There's also ESP32-S3 which is dual core, with more RAM, USB, and Bluetooth, but I'm not sure any boards are available yet.

All of that not to be confused with ESP32-C3 which is a single-core RISC-V without USB.

And yes, their naming is confusing.

edit: Adafruit has some boards with ESP32-S2. If you get a random board from elsewhere, there are good chances it will come with a USB-to-serial chip, which you don't want if you need to use native USB. So check.

Re:Die Shots of the Raspberry Pi RP2040 by MuffinFlavored on Sunday January 31, 2021 @10:33PM (#25985238)
> ESP32-S2 has both WiFi and USB

USB 1.0/1.1 right? Not 2.0?

Re:Die Shots of the Raspberry Pi RP2040 by jesse_cureton on Friday January 29, 2021 @04:03PM (#25962522)
The "Arduino Nano RP2040 Connect" is an RP4040 board slated to be coming soon that will provide WiFi and Bluetooth.

I expect we'll see more RP2040 devboards & SOMs coming soon that fill the connectivity niche.

Re:Die Shots of the Raspberry Pi RP2040 by MuffinFlavored on Friday January 29, 2021 @06:46PM (#25964395)
Bluetooth? I’m looking for WiFi + USB.