“Awesome! Plugged the pico in and was able to get the display working very quickly using Rust embedded libraries and the available driver for the display controller. The display is crisp. Only criticism is that the buttons are a little too close to the screen, making them a bit tricky to push. Not a big deal, and it keeps the overall package barely larger than the screen itself.”
“This is really pretty, works well, and is a nice form factor. The RGB LED is a lovely addition for a status display. The buttons are a bit fiddly, and some breakout pads for the unused GPIO would have made it extra hackable.”
“Great little display, the only issue I have is on the software side - currently, the latest pre-baked UF2 image on Pimoroni's GitHub does not include the networking stack added to the Pico W's official UF2 image. Once this is added, and we can access both a network and the display from a single UF2 image, this would be an easy five stars.”
Ahoy! Hopefully you've found it already, but if not there is now a beta Pico W build available at https://github.com/pimoroni/pimoroni-pico/releases :)
“It is a good piece of hardware. But the software implementation (MicroPython) lacks. It should have been designed with 256 colors as now, it consumes 90% of all the RAM that small microcontrollers have just for its frame buffer.
320x240x2 is 153Κ. Pico running Micropython has 160-180K free, making this board difficult to use in actual projects, other than demos.”
Ahoy Ioannis!
We've been working on some experimental ST7789 drivers that should improve the RAM situation, if you want to give them a go? https://github.com/pimoroni/pimoroni-pico/pull/373
“Reasonable size display with good details for setup and programming.
The buttons although useful would be better placed slightly further away from the display edge and taller. This would allow better ease of use if mounted in a box. Perhaps even solder pads to enable extension buttons to be fitted. Mounting holes would help.”
