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Raspberry Pi Pico 2, our new $5 microcontroller board, on sale now (www.raspberrypi.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (6 children)

Can someone fill me in on the intended usecases for something like this? If I wanted to make a personal cloud storage (nextcloud or similar) with a bunch of HDDs for example, would this be ok or underpowered to manage that?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

The Pico is a microcontroller board more like an Arduino. it'd be great as the motherboard of a weather station or something.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

These aren't meant for complex things or even to install a full operating system kernel on or for moving data files. These are more for controlling electronics directly. Something you'd find inside a very specialized device like maybe controlling the speed of an air filter fan based on information from a few environmental sensors.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I run all of my DIY keyboard builds (here's the latest) off of Pi Picos or clones with USB-C.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Yes, way too underpowered. This is for controlling your 3D printer or stuff like that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I think it’d be easier to use the normal raspberry pi instead in that case.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I just posted a link to a review by someone who has been playing with it for a while and talks about a lot of use-cases: https://lemmy.ml/post/18938549