No one even mentioned the new Raspberry Pi Pico?

[BennehBoy]

Oh actually no they're not, great stuff - I should read things more carefully when I've just woken up, I thought they were using a full blown pi, due to the shape of the carrier board. oops.

I kinda wans one of these now

[ag123]

1 thing i like about pico is its oversized ram

[mrburnette]

1 thing i like about pico is its oversized ram

Yawn ...

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OK... I concede the RD2040 has some niceties BUT the ESP32 RF section can be powered-down if your power-budget is critical.

As for price, the two are within a $1 of each other and I really did not shop around for a lower price:
https://robotdyn.com/wifi-module-esp32- ... om-32.html

So...
ESP32 more SRAM and Bluetooth + WiFi for under $1 extra. Big Plus is Arduino core is available now and mature.

Just saying ... options abound with the diversity of choices today.

[ag123]

sure some competition is healthy & maybe pico should add wifi too

[feluga]

Well... now I got something cooler to show...

I've made my Pico emulate a NES and play Castlevania.
This game is very high CPU intensive and making it work in 60 FPS was a nice challenge.
High quality Sound/FX and smooth video graphics.

Pico dual Core at 250MHz => VGA 8bpp/256 colors + PDM (for sound) + PS/2 Keyboard controlling it.
Everything in a single MCU board.

Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iFT6jDa9Ug

[BennehBoy]

Early April Fool joke?

[feluga]

Early April Fool joke?

No... 100% real!

[pawantanwar]

Raspberry Pi Pico is a great new microcontroller board, but it's still early days. I'd stick with the ESP32 for now, but the Pico is definitely worth keeping an eye on.

thanks and regards
pawan tanwar
https://www.multispanindia.com

[BennehBoy]

https://github.com/fruit-bat/pico-zxspectrum/

I've built a couple of these - quite fun.

[trimarco232]

number of capture channels (with digital filter) :
https://fr.aliexpress.com/item/10050053 ... MBNPMBBzqA = ~23
pi pico = esp32 = ~0