Why isn't this front page news?
Close but no cigar
TheMemberFormerlyKnownAsAWOL:
Close but no cigar
What do you mean? The tomshardware article is just a rehash of that blog post.
Hardly front page though, was it?
Yeah, it's on the home page:
But I was only curious because I didn't understand the meaning of the statement. Thanks for the clarification, I understand now.
Robin2:
Isn't this the same issue as in this other ThreadPerhaps they should be merged?
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Meh, can this one, keep the one in Discussion.
I was clearly beaten to the draw.
MicroPython/CircuitPython is one option. RPi also provide a C++ SDK. In the Arduino blog post @TheMemberFormerlyKnownAsAWOL linked to it was announced that Arduino is also going to create an Arduino core for this microcontroller:
We are going to port the Arduino core to this new architecture in order to enable everyone to use the RP2040 chip with the Arduino ecosystem (IDE, command line tool, and thousands of libraries). Although the RP2040 chip is fresh from the plant, our team is already working on the porting effort… stay tuned.
It's a helluva lot bigger than a DIP Attiny84 so I can't see myself having a use for one in the near future. 
Probably uses a lot more electricity also.
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The RP2040-based board Arduino plans to make uses the Nano form factor, which is smaller than the RPi Pico. Once you add in the other necessary through hole components, I'd guess an ATtiny84 board is not much smaller than a Nano. But of course the RP2040 and ATtiny84 are two very different things with probably not much overlap between appropriate applications.
pert:
I'd guess an ATtiny84 board
But I did not say "Attiny84 board". I said Attiny84.
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Robin2:
Probably uses a lot more electricity also.
Yes.
Ahhh, you guys get me off my arse. Wow about the little robot brain, that somewhere goes for $4 assembled!
article:
RP2040 has:
Dual-core Arm Cortex-M0+ @ 133MHz
264KB (remember kilobytes?) of on-chip RAM
Support for up to 16MB of off-chip Flash memory via dedicated QSPI bus
DMA controller
Interpolator and integer divider peripherals
30 GPIO pins, 4 of which can be used as analogue inputs
2 × UARTs, 2 × SPI controllers, and 2 × I2C controllers
16 × PWM channels
1 × USB 1.1 controller and PHY, with host and device support
8 × Raspberry Pi Programmable I/O (PIO) state machines
USB mass-storage boot mode with UF2 support, for drag-and-drop programmingAnd this isn’t just a powerful chip: it’s designed to help you bring every last drop of that power to bear. With six independent banks of RAM, and a fully connected switch at the heart of its bus fabric, you can easily arrange for the cores and DMA engines to run in parallel without contention.
For power users, we provide a complete C SDK, a GCC-based toolchain, and Visual Studio Code integration.
As Cortex-M0+ lacks a floating-point unit, we have commissioned optimised floating-point functions from Mark Owen, author of the popular Qfplib libraries; these are substantially faster than their GCC library equivalents, and are licensed for use on any RP2040-based product.
With two fast cores and and a large amount of on-chip RAM, RP2040 is a great platform for machine learning applications. You can find Pete Warden’s port of Google’s TensorFlow Lite framework here. Look out for more machine learning content over the coming months.
A dual core MCU. I never haaaad a dual core MCU! OTOH, minimum power to run is 100 mA.
Imagine how big a job it's take to need one of these! Wooooo!
Robin2:
But I did not say "Attiny84 board". I said Attiny84.
Not a fair comparison if you do that. The Pico is a complete board, not just a microcontroller.
pert:
Not a fair comparison if you do that. The Pico is a complete board, not just a microcontroller.
It's a fair statement of my requirement - which is all I attempted in Reply #8
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AVR's, especially ATtinys don't need boards, just a bypass cap or two.
Or just mount the parts on top of the chip, as long as you don't abuse the chip by plugging it on and out a lot. '328P example
I took a different route for a '1284P, preferring a socket to plug the chip into
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Are you now Solarbotics or did they partner or license with you?
Does your online store have up-to-date items, prices and availabilities?
Are you asking me? I am not affiliated with Solarbotics. My website is pretty current. There's always something else I can post for sale there.
What happened to the boards you designed with uSD onboard -- you were waiting for parts a ways back.