“I love this successor to the 2040. A bit more power output available, so it drives longer light strings better, easy to load firmware , with an onboard neopixel. Great bit of kit at a good price.”
“This 2350W replaces a pico plus 2 that was driving a cheap Chinese string of 100 lights. The plus 2 used a single WS2812 as a level converter but that turned out not to be man enough for the light string. The string has the data line on all the lights connected in parallel rather than daisy-chained. The level converter on the 2350W has plenty of capacity to drive those type of light strings.
My program is a heavily modified version of the WS2812 example in pico-examples. I'm having less success however with software using FreeRTOS - my WS2812 drive program with a HTTP server for command input that works perfectly on a RP2040 (a Pico-W) locks up on the 2350 or I get '*** PANIC ***'. I think there are low-level synchronisation issues.”
“Excellent board. Easily drives 66 star-shaped RGB LEDs on a 10m wire using just an old USB-C 3A 5V phone charger for power. Tough to choose between this and the Pimoroni Pico Plus 2W, but I went for the Plasma's voltage-increased data line and screw-based terminal block in place of the extra GPIO and memory. The Plasma W has enough connections for the project I've got in mind either way. Feels noticeably snappier than the RP2040 too.”
“This Plasma RP2350,is virtual Akin to Plasma RP2040,plus I find allot easier use ESP32 or ESP8622 and WLED, to control pretty pixels,The Rp2350 works okin Arduino IDE.testd with FastLed Library and ok,it's worth having in your collection if you like RGB,pixels and the like”
