“Lovely little board..
My raspberry pi 3 wouldn't see it as mass storage ( possibly a power supply issue) but it worked perfectly to download micropython with my laptop and now communicates fine with the Pi 3B”
“What's not to love about the pico. I managed to immerse a pico in seawater (the home-made pressure vessel failed). Seawater is not the kind of stuff you mix with electronics, but the pico is so cheap, I just bought another and worked on the pressure-vessel design.
I fully expect to wreck quite a bit of kit before I perfect something that can handle the environmental violence of an inter-tidal zone. Hence, cheap, functioning, well-supported components. This one, I can actually solder connections directly to the board, so saving space and points-of-failure.”
“I have used the Arduino Nano for many years but the Pico gives so much more, speed and extra pins. I am using the Arduino IDE which so far has worked flawlessly.
I can see this will be my new standard and will buy more from Pimoroni!”
“Brilliant, powerful little excellent value microcontroller. The pico has been my first microcontroller, nevertheless, it was easy to set up! This is a great, fun piece of microcontroller and I would recommend it to people of all levels of electronics and programming. Thanks, Pimoroni!”
“received 2 more ok thanks, have altready one of them to use.
using the first one [in my original order] I think I quickly wear out the header sockets if you replug it - so needs to be mounted once only. The X button became intermittent.
But also the display blew - but cant tell why yet - I think the pico & display are exposed to static shock when on usb to a mac - that may have been the cause - the solution must be to mount it on its own set of headers connected to earth”
“I'd have preferred a mini B USB connector, instead of the micro one, because they're much more robust. Also, the silk screened pin identification is only on the side you can't see, when it's plugged into a breadboard.
Apart from those things, they are a great deal, so I bought some more. I don't know Python, and have used C and C++ for decades, so I'm now using earlephilhower/arduino-pico from github. That lets me use it in the Arduino IDE, as a more powerful arduino - a lot faster, and with two CPU cores.”
