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Re:Raspberry Pi RP2350 Now Available for Purchase, Stacked M... by whateveracct on Monday March 17, 2025 @11:16AM (#43389462)
A bunch of my video game controllers are built on RP2040s. Maybe that's just network effects, but it clearly found a niche there.
Re:Raspberry Pi RP2350 Now Available for Purchase, Stacked M... by cluoma on Monday March 17, 2025 @11:40AM (#43389693)
The PIO functionality, I think, is a killer feature for interfacing with retro consoles. I've been working on a Sega Dreamcast controller adapter and the PIO made it pretty easy to start interfacing with the console's custom protocol, even for somebody with near-zero experience in this kind of thing.
Re:Raspberry Pi RP2350 Now Available for Purchase, Stacked M... by jsheard on Monday March 17, 2025 @11:18AM (#43389486)
Same with keyboards, the RP2040 is one of the most popular options for running QMK now.

That said it's not a good fit for wireless keyboards, that niche is served by ZMK running on nRF chips.

Re:Raspberry Pi RP2350 Now Available for Purchase, Stacked M... by Graziano_M on Monday March 17, 2025 @04:22PM (#43392373)
Zmk has pretty good support for rp2xxx. It’s a lot nicer than QMK where you don’t have to write c to make key map. I made a mistake in my pcb and didn’t hook up my SPI display to a spi peripheral, and all I had to do was set up the device tree to make the display use the SPI driver that is implemented in PIO.