I'm becoming quite a fan from the video's you have produced so far. Keep up the good work. I've actually just picked up a pico and having not attempted to learn python yet. Your arduino ide video will come in very handy. You are very concise and clear in your explainations. You should consider doing some tutorial video's on programming. 4k subscribers in 2 months is very impressive too.
Very good and clear presentation of the new Feather Board. I find the flash size of 8MB and USB Type C great. I find it a pity that the board is not designed for external power supplies. I'm looking forward to your next video in the series. Thank you very much. Many greetings from Germany, Matthias
I got one of these adafruit feather micropython boards and shortly after I ended up giving away boxes of old parts. These little boards replace a lot of bits and pieces from previous projects.
Much appreciated your video on Adafruit's pico feather. Got two to try out to run stepper motors. Being in Canada shipping was faster but the price is high compared to product. Keep up the good work.
Good summary video, thank you! Several times you describe battery specs as "up to 200 milli-amp-hours (mAh)", a measure of *energy storage capacity*, and you write the same in the description, which I found confusing. And the LiPo battery you demonstrated is clearly labeled as "1800 mAh". Perhaps I'm misunderstanding something. Or perhaps you meant to say & write "200 mA" *power*, for the charging rate?
Thanks as always for your informative reviews. You mentioned it in passing, I am hoping you will go more in depth on the SWD and debugging in general, not the print or software debugger debugging, but in circuit and remote debugging using SWD. Thanks
Nice video. Not sure I agree re the Pico should have been this though - it sounds more like a Pico+? The great thing is still RP2040 so lots of options for people 👍😀
I may have missed it and will watch again to check but I cannot recall you mentioning if it was BreadBoard friendly. The Battery charging outlet looks very close to some pins. Is it close enough to be a problem with soldering the header pins? Many thanks.
Don't think I mentioned but it is breadboard friendly. The battery port just means you have to solder at an odd angle for one or two pins but it fits fine in my breadboard
Great video! Can the next video show a 10 pin SWD header (surface mount 0.050 pins) added to the Feather, and connection to an inexpensive JTAG debugger that uses the 10 pin connection? Looking forward to next steps in C/C++...
The only thing truly amazing about the pico is the PIO. Which should be named differently, most of the time PIO means Parallel input output peripheral. But you could easily just use a CPLD, especially the cheap atmel ones.
Your links in the description are wrong. You don't have a link to a video on Pimoroni's Tiny 2040. Instead you have labeled the link to the Adafruit Feather RP2040, "Tiny 2040".
nice presentation. I have several issues with Raspberry programming. Just because I am old and my idea of programming is build an exe file and run it... My best was QB,, VB and some c programs programmed with Dev C++ which is old now. I have installed Visual Studio, but I am feeling dizzy with all that extra crap, and classes and all sort of things for only blinking a led. If i want to make extra mathematics and functions, I don't know if I can optimize that because I have lost contact with the hardware... is not like PICs anymore.... yeah old school. So I have to relay in other people functions... well sorry for this long comment (rant) and I hope that, despite my age, i can go forward and make some good programs. I will take a look into your tutorials.
I am probably also old, as I find it daunting to move from the old Microchip IDE/compiler/debugger to the new ones. It probably has more and better features, but I don't look forward to the steep learning curve. Spending hours and hours until you can finally "blink an LED" again. 😏 Cheers, I feel your pain.
You might like to learn Python. It's a very easy language (somewhat reminiscent of what VB used to feel like perhaps) and very accessible, especially in the form of micropython on an RP2040.
Horses for courses. if your project doesn’t need the extra stuff, why pay the extra money? Just use a pico. If you pull your projects apart afterwards and reuse the parts, then maybe consider this one. I see no reason to not have both 😁
Where we can find the actual MCU of RP2040 chipset? It is not available on Digikey, Mouser nor even Aliexpress. Should it be purchased from Raspberry Pi foundation? What I am curious is the price of the MCU in 1000pcs.
Apparently it will be released at some point in Q2 once they have sorted supply to all their board partners then they will retail the chip to the public. I'm pretty excited for when they do!
I think the price is still under NDA for the current set of board partners, but Eben said it would be in the ballpark of 20 cents/unit cost at the 1000 qty.
Only go to school if you want a job, if you want to design your own products and and start a business, save your money and just learn online. Within a couple years of working on projects you can gain enough knowledge to do almost anything. Maybe add another 2 years for programming experience as well.
Why must everything always be phrased as an ..... killer? Every product has advantage and disadvantages. Why not just highlight those and be done with it. Why not call it just a comparison? The right tool for the right job. There is not tool that does it all.
I disagree with your statement that this is what the Pico should have been. You have to remember that the Raspberry Pi Foundation's main purpose is education. Money is very short in schools and quadruple the price puts the Feather RP2040 out of the running for enough boards for a class of schoolkids.
Or maybe this is the way an enhanced Pico could have been if they'd gone the way of the old Pi boards and there had been a Pico Model A and B (with enhanced features).
All of adafruits stuff is extremely over priced. You can find tons of the same stuff on other websites(ehich adafruit probably bought them from) and is sometimes 10 times the price.
Apart from the extra flash, this is pretty pointless, and for £8.64 (at current usd conversion) vs £3.60, is just silly. I thought the point of these third-party boards is to at least add some real value, such as WiFi / Bluetooth, or some other advantage over the Pico, you know, to bring it into capability parity with the ESP32 or something.
Hopefully the price comes down as more rp2040 chips are available from the Pi foundation. Maybe the clones will come shortly after these boards are all out!
Have to agree there to a point. Pimoroni have no stock. USB C a better connector, and they have upped the RAM a lot, plus the added connectors. It is open source, so can make your own once the RP2040 chip is made available. The Arduino board is meant to have all the Wireless/Bluetooth, but still no pricing or release date.
May as well say "I'm really disappointed that the Toyota Yaris is nowhere near the car the BMW 3 Series is" Why doesn't this board have built in WiFi and hardware security like the Arduino 2040 Connect? Oh, yeah - the Connect costs twice as much as this one.
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Feather has 4 times as much flash memory, but costs 3 times as much as the RpPico. Pico also has more I/O pins exposed.
I'm becoming quite a fan from the video's you have produced so far. Keep up the good work. I've actually just picked up a pico and having not attempted to learn python yet. Your arduino ide video will come in very handy. You are very concise and clear in your explainations. You should consider doing some tutorial video's on programming. 4k subscribers in 2 months is very impressive too.
Thank you for the support Dave! Means a lot - hopefully the videos are helpful! Do you mean some general programming videos?
Very good and clear presentation of the new Feather Board. I find the flash size of 8MB and USB Type C great. I find it a pity that the board is not designed for external power supplies. I'm looking forward to your next video in the series. Thank you very much. Many greetings from Germany, Matthias
Thank you Matthias - hopefully the next video in the series will be soon!
Was eagerly waiting for your video on the Adafruit Feather RP2040!!!!!!
Glad it's finally here!!
I got one of these adafruit feather micropython boards and shortly after I ended up giving away boxes of old parts. These little boards replace a lot of bits and pieces from previous projects.
Much appreciated your video on Adafruit's pico feather. Got two to try out to run stepper motors. Being in Canada shipping was faster but the price is high compared to product. Keep up the good work.
Very good overview, keep up the great videos.
Thank you
Good summary video, thank you! Several times you describe battery specs as "up to 200 milli-amp-hours (mAh)", a measure of *energy storage capacity*, and you write the same in the description, which I found confusing. And the LiPo battery you demonstrated is clearly labeled as "1800 mAh".
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding something. Or perhaps you meant to say & write "200 mA" *power*, for the charging rate?
Hi Scott, thanks for picking up on this, you are totally correct! I got my units muddled - it can charge at up 200mA
Thanks as always for your informative reviews. You mentioned it in passing, I am hoping you will go more in depth on the SWD and debugging in general, not the print or software debugger debugging, but in circuit and remote debugging using SWD. Thanks
I will look at going into SWD in more detail thanks for the suggestion!
Thank you. Can one core run C/C++ code and the other core uPython?
Nice video. Not sure I agree re the Pico should have been this though - it sounds more like a Pico+? The great thing is still RP2040 so lots of options for people 👍😀
I may have missed it and will watch again to check but I cannot recall you mentioning if it was BreadBoard friendly.
The Battery charging outlet looks very close to some pins. Is it close enough to be a problem with soldering the header pins?
Many thanks.
Don't think I mentioned but it is breadboard friendly. The battery port just means you have to solder at an odd angle for one or two pins but it fits fine in my breadboard
I think SparkFun RP2040 Thing Plus beats it with an sdcard slot, easy 1.27mm jtag header, and increased 16MB flash memory
Really like your content. Keep it up
Thank you! Will do :)
Great video! Can the next video show a 10 pin SWD header (surface mount 0.050 pins) added to the Feather, and connection to an inexpensive JTAG debugger that uses the 10 pin connection? Looking forward to next steps in C/C++...
Will look into this! Need to get my hands on some correct pitch headers first as for some reason mine are way out! Thanks for the suggestion :)
Surely it is just enough to have choice in boards having what you need as opposed to a "killer"?
Very interesting video!! Thanks
The only thing truly amazing about the pico is the PIO. Which should be named differently, most of the time PIO means Parallel input output peripheral.
But you could easily just use a CPLD, especially the cheap atmel ones.
Your links in the description are wrong. You don't have a link to a video on Pimoroni's Tiny 2040. Instead you have labeled the link to the Adafruit Feather RP2040, "Tiny 2040".
Do you think the lack of Bluetooth is a thing? Seems odd in this day of connected things.
You could hack together a nice handheld console with this one, not need extra circuitry for the battery. If only I had a 3d printer.
That sounds like a great project! I also wish I had a 3D printer - maybe one day!
nice presentation. I have several issues with Raspberry programming. Just because I am old and my idea of programming is build an exe file and run it... My best was QB,, VB and some c programs programmed with Dev C++ which is old now. I have installed Visual Studio, but I am feeling dizzy with all that extra crap, and classes and all sort of things for only blinking a led.
If i want to make extra mathematics and functions, I don't know if I can optimize that because I have lost contact with the hardware... is not like PICs anymore.... yeah old school.
So I have to relay in other people functions... well sorry for this long comment (rant) and I hope that, despite my age, i can go forward and make some good programs. I will take a look into your tutorials.
I am probably also old, as I find it daunting to move from the old Microchip IDE/compiler/debugger to the new ones.
It probably has more and better features, but I don't look forward to the steep learning curve. Spending hours and hours until you can finally "blink an LED" again.
😏 Cheers, I feel your pain.
You might like to learn Python. It's a very easy language (somewhat reminiscent of what VB used to feel like perhaps) and very accessible, especially in the form of micropython on an RP2040.
Horses for courses. if your project doesn’t need the extra stuff, why pay the extra money? Just use a pico. If you pull your projects apart afterwards and reuse the parts, then maybe consider this one. I see no reason to not have both 😁
I also see no reason not to have both!
Where we can find the actual MCU of RP2040 chipset? It is not available on Digikey, Mouser nor even Aliexpress. Should it be purchased from Raspberry Pi foundation? What I am curious is the price of the MCU in 1000pcs.
Apparently it will be released at some point in Q2 once they have sorted supply to all their board partners then they will retail the chip to the public. I'm pretty excited for when they do!
I think the price is still under NDA for the current set of board partners, but Eben said it would be in the ballpark of 20 cents/unit cost at the 1000 qty.
when's the next pico tutorial video?
From where did you get all your knowledge for electronics? Was it the Internet or from school?
Primarily from university education! But to be honest the internet helped significantly :)
@@LearnEmbeddedSystems Interesting. Thanks
Only go to school if you want a job, if you want to design your own products and and start a business, save your money and just learn online.
Within a couple years of working on projects you can gain enough knowledge to do almost anything. Maybe add another 2 years for programming experience as well.
No WiFi?
Why must everything always be phrased as an ..... killer? Every product has advantage and disadvantages. Why not just highlight those and be done with it. Why not call it just a comparison? The right tool for the right job. There is not tool that does it all.
Ah yes sir
Esp32 the picopi killer
nice! USB-C. shame no wireless
I disagree with your statement that this is what the Pico should have been. You have to remember that the Raspberry Pi Foundation's main purpose is education. Money is very short in schools and quadruple the price puts the Feather RP2040 out of the running for enough boards for a class of schoolkids.
You make a very good point! I think a better way of saying what I wanted would be: this is what I wish the Pico could have been for 4$
Or maybe this is the way an enhanced Pico could have been if they'd gone the way of the old Pi boards and there had been a Pico Model A and B (with enhanced features).
All of adafruits stuff is extremely over priced.
You can find tons of the same stuff on other websites(ehich adafruit probably bought them from) and is sometimes 10 times the price.
Apart from the extra flash, this is pretty pointless, and for £8.64 (at current usd conversion) vs £3.60, is just silly. I thought the point of these third-party boards is to at least add some real value, such as WiFi / Bluetooth, or some other advantage over the Pico, you know, to bring it into capability parity with the ESP32 or something.
Hopefully the price comes down as more rp2040 chips are available from the Pi foundation. Maybe the clones will come shortly after these boards are all out!
lucky it’s not 25 quid coming from adafruit 🤣
Have to agree there to a point. Pimoroni have no stock. USB C a better connector, and they have upped the RAM a lot, plus the added connectors. It is open source, so can make your own once the RP2040 chip is made available. The Arduino board is meant to have all the Wireless/Bluetooth, but still no pricing or release date.
@@ExplodingWaffle101 Sadly I agree with you. Adafruit boards are OTT for ordinary folk.
May as well say "I'm really disappointed that the Toyota Yaris is nowhere near the car the BMW 3 Series is"
Why doesn't this board have built in WiFi and hardware security like the Arduino 2040 Connect? Oh, yeah - the Connect costs twice as much as this one.
Why has everything to be a "killer"? iPhone Killer, iPad Killer, Pi Killer.... :/
Because it's a flashy title! Nothing more :)
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A bit of patience and you could have had one for £10.50 from Pimoroni...