“Readers of Practical Electronics magazine in the UK or Silicon Chip magazine in Australia and New Zealand with be very familiar with the Micromite and the numerous projects that use it. For those not familiar with the Micromite it is a single-board computer that uses the Basic programming language and has built-in support for colour touch screens and many different types of modules. A quick Google search will offer much more detail.
Recently, the Micromite system has been ported to the Raspberry Pi Pico and is called PicoMite. The PicoMite is many times more powerful than the Micromite and with many more features. It takes seconds to set up and is ready ‘out-of-the-box’! No messing about with libraries to use colour touch screens, real-time clocks, temperature sensors, SD cards etc. – it’s all built-in.
The Raspberry Pi Pico is a lot cheaper than a Micromite system and given its extra features and performance is a ‘no-brainer’ for all existing and future Micromite / PicoMite projects.”
“Great starter board to get you making projects without the stress of blowing out a more expensive pi 4, 3, or zero, which are difficult to get without being price gouged by all the resellers out there slowing ruining the world. May they burn in hell where they belong. But, yeah, get a pico, it’s great.”
“Excellent little board for beginners who want to learn Microcontrollers and MicroPython.
The low price is justified, but would like to see more HATs for it as it's very limited by itself, so I had to purchase one from an external site and pay shipping twice.”