Raspberry Pi Pico

Did exactly what I was wanting. Amazing little bit of tech for a great price. You can do a lot with it and learn alot on the way. Highly recommend for people wanting to learn electronics and coding.

Very versatile and perfect for many projects that are open sourced.

Good value for money. Well packaged. Great for experimenting with.

Works brilliantly and no issues at all. Comes well packaged and ready to go!

Don't get me wrong, there's a lot wrong here: - Environment is poorly supported even in VSCode, even in 2022 - Setup is barely supported under windows - 2021 guides already outdated - IDE intergration is spotty at best (it's actually pathetic) - (like ESP IDF bad) - Some examples won't compile without modification - The documentation flips between stellar and completely lacking information - There's a "more documented" version of all the headers on github... not mentioned anywhere - Took me ages to find the C/C++ sdk companion PDF which does a decent job of clearing up some issues - Can't reprogram over serial by default. CP201x style thing would be appreciated. - There's an annoying dropbox style "drop your uf2 in the usb drive" style upload. I hate it. - The pinout silkscreen is only on the bottom of the chip - They want you to use a 2nd pico as a serial wire debug chip. No. (increasing the reliance on 3rd party software, drivers and noise) - Hard to find answers to questions sometimes - Especially because everything's micropython this, micropython that - The autogenerated doxygen docs are kinda pointless -- There's annoying little "preview" hyperlinks, clicking them offers no info ---Often it will say "More info" after already showing you the full description -- Nothing's anchored properly, so you google a function then still have to scroll to it -- Still a pain trying to determine what header something belongs to -- Often the descriptions are uselessly vague But... - Great price - Amazing actually - Very capable little chip - Easy to overclock - The PIO state machines are just laughably good - Runs pretty cold - Good amount of RAM on board

Much cheaper than Pro Micro boards, and the ability to use Circuit Python to for keyboard firmware simplifies the process. Take care with the pin holes - it is tempting to prototype by twisting wire through the hole, but it is easy to short the power and ground pins and fry the board.

It's small, so small in fact I've lost it and need to buy another!

Purchased this do I could "de_fuse" my Nintendo Wii U. Works perfect, and just proves how many use cases this thing has. Amazing value for money and happy to support the Raspberry Pi project... and not just some Chinese company making generic rip off versions of someone else's R&D work.