smaller RP2040 boards...

[Jan Panteltje]

SB Components Announce Micro RP2040 For Smaller Raspberry Pi Pico Projects:
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/sb-components-announce-micro-rp2040-for-smaller-raspberry-pi-pico-projects
has USB-C 5 V port

 

[Don]

Jan Panteltje wrote:

SB Components Announce Micro RP2040 For Smaller Raspberry Pi Pico Projects:
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/sb-components-announce-micro-rp2040-for-smaller-raspberry-pi-pico-projects
has USB-C 5 V port

From the product pitch page:

It bears a striking resemblance to Solder Party\'s RP2040 Stamp
which sees the GPIO pins broken along the perimeter of the board,
but with Micro RP2040 we have an onboard USB C interface, but it
came at a cost.

Does anyone see what \"came at a cost?\" Fewer pins?
The Micro\'s pitch looks like 2.54 mm instead of the Stamp\'s 2.00 mm.
And Micro also looks more surface mountable than the Stamp.

Danke,

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There was a young lady named Bright Whose speed was far faster than light;
She set out one day In a relative way And returned on the previous night.

 

[Arie de Muijnck]

On 2023-07-05 14:07, Jan Panteltje wrote:

SB Components Announce Micro RP2040 For Smaller Raspberry Pi Pico Projects:
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/sb-components-announce-micro-rp2040-for-smaller-raspberry-pi-pico-projects
has USB-C 5 V port

In February I bought a few of these, they have a tiny WS1812 (16M color) LED integrated:
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004281549886.html

Headers are 0.1\", the \'no headers\' version came with loose headers so I can choose SMD or pins up or down.
Programming is easy, the boot loader emulates a disk drive and dropping an UF2 file programs it.

Arie

 

[Lasse Langwadt Christensen]

onsdag den 5. juli 2023 kl. 15.03.12 UTC+2 skrev Don:

Jan Panteltje wrote:
SB Components Announce Micro RP2040 For Smaller Raspberry Pi Pico Projects:
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/sb-components-announce-micro-rp2040-for-smaller-raspberry-pi-pico-projects
has USB-C 5 V port
From the product pitch page:

It bears a striking resemblance to Solder Party\'s RP2040 Stamp
which sees the GPIO pins broken along the perimeter of the board,
but with Micro RP2040 we have an onboard USB C interface, but it
came at a cost.

Does anyone see what \"came at a cost?\" Fewer pins?

yes, afaict tell fewer pin because bigger pitch and one edge taken up by the USB connector

 

[Jan Panteltje]

On a sunny day (Wed, 5 Jul 2023 15:44:40 +0200) it happened Arie de Muijnck
<eternal.september@ademu.com> wrote in <u83s49$hg3j$1@dont-email.me>:

On 2023-07-05 14:07, Jan Panteltje wrote:
SB Components Announce Micro RP2040 For Smaller Raspberry Pi Pico Projects:
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/sb-components-announce-micro-rp2040-for-smaller-raspberry-pi-pico-projects
has USB-C 5 V port

In February I bought a few of these, they have a tiny WS1812 (16M color) LED integrated:
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004281549886.html

Headers are 0.1\", the \'no headers\' version came with loose headers so I can choose SMD or pins up or down.
Programming is easy, the boot loader emulates a disk drive and dropping an UF2 file programs it.

Arie

That is nice, good price too.