“Sturdy and responsive little handheld system, with a fun and we'll developed platform game preloaded. Even though I anticipated it to be small, this thing is genuinely tiny, which does make use awkward for anything more than ten minutes or so. I purchased to use as a platform to learn python, though there is very little guidance on how to so this or get started. I had to pull together guides from 32blit and Adafruit to get underway. There are few examples, and those I did find were incomplete, didn't specifically target the PicoSystem or did not function well. This will probably improve as the community grows but I would not recommend for a beginner looking to start developing handheld games.”
“System works well, instructions are good. I had issues with tool chain on windows for raspberry pico sdk. Once I switched to Debian in virtual box everything worked fine. I recommend using putty and ssh for programming to get copy paste functionality and winscp to copy files. The hardware is very well built and I highly recommend it.”
“The build quality is extremely good. Especially the aluminium case makes it feel great.
The screen has a good quality but it’s pretty small which kind of makes the charm of the PicoSystem.
The 32blit SDK is great for developing own games and it has an active community behind it.
There are also other SDKs available which I haven’t had experience with yet.
Overall the PicoSystem is great for getting into retro game development.”
