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Raspberry Pi Pico 2, our new $5 microcontroller board, on sale now (www.raspberrypi.com)
submitted 4 months ago by solrize to c/technology
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Basically more everything. 2x Cortex M33 cores with floating point, 520KB ram, more PIOs, bunch of secure boot stuff (I have mixed feelings about this), and can boot to a mode with risc-v cores instead of the M33s.

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[–] kitnaht -1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The Pico never really took off, honestly. I doubt this thing is going to fly off the shelves or anything.

[–] solrize 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Idk about took off but it was a successful product by reasonable standards. I have a few of them and chose it for a product that ended up going nowhere. That was partly because of hardware add-ons available for the pico but not for comparable boards. The existence of that 3rd party hardware ecosystem itself shows that the pico did ok.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

They apparently sold 4 million units of the pico family. Given the product, I'd say that isn't amazing, but not a failure, either.