“Amazing thing for the price, and easier to mount than a Teensy LC. Very impressive.
I use it as a gamepad, so I'm not a fan of how it also shows up as a storage device if using CircuitPython. Makes tweaking the code easy, though!”
“All I can say so far is that they arrived on time, intact and undamaged and that I'm impressed by the use of resealable antistatic packaging for each individual module.
I haven't had a chance to install any software but did do a basic check that they would show up as removable flash media by holding the boot/select button for a few seconds whilst plugging them into a USB port.
Prior to that I had examined their power consumption with a USB energy monitor where they both drew 7mA without the boot/select button pressed and 10mA, button pressed. Since both of the two modules I'd ordered had performed as USB memory devices and shown identical and reasonable current consumption figures during the basic power test, I'll assume for the time being that they are fully functioning, fault free modules ready to be programmed and their features examined in fine detail.”
“Brilliant, just started to set up and play around with the Pico. Can't believe how small it is. Pi Hut shipped them out really quickly which is ideal given how impatient I am.”
“I am not going to review the Pi Pico, but the Pi Hut. I cannot recommend that anybody buys from this company at all.
If you do, you will be added to their spam lists and you will be bombarded with requests to give the company glowing reviews. Clicking "unsubscribe" gives you a false feeling where you are only unsubscribed for a week or so.
Save yourself the hassle and buy from another company.”
“An absolutely amazing replacement for my usual MicroChip PIC and Atmega micro-controllers at about the same price. I particularly liked the built-in on-board 12-bit analogue to digital converters. Python makes it very easy to program. Could do with a few 'extras' such as a real-time clock but this can be implemented via an external module. Also would be nice to have a bit more memory for data-logging applications, again this can be implemented in other ways.
Python is not perfect for embedded real-time systems but it is pretty good for most experiments. The MicroPython 'thread' functions sometimes fail possibly due to some conflict between the two cores when using the timer delay functions. This usually causes a crash, often after the application has been running for a while. Hopefully the MicroPython library will be fixed soon. Not sure I like the Thonny interface! Is there any way of accessing the stored flash data without using Thonny... preferably seeing the files as mounted flash storage. Lastly, if you write serial data to the PC this is easily captured on Linux using CuteCom. (Great!!). BUT; unfortunately it seems impossible to get Windows-10 to read serial data using Bray++ terminal. No idea why? Maybe it just hates Microsoft!...”
