“Amazed at what this thing can do for such a cheap price. Powered mine from a 12v supply using a voltage regulator (5V) and it works a treat. Very good price and really quick delivery. Wouldn't hesitate to use this company again.”
“A truly amazing little thing - so much power in such a tiny package.
Basic GPIO is a breeze - with plenty of examples out there, in a couple of days I was able to interface hall effect, opto sensors and even drive stepper motors via a tmc2209 module. I also bought a Pi W - and within a couple of hours had it running a Webserver so I could remotely control and monitor my devices from anywhere.
The PIO functionality is challenging and exciting to explore - only 9 instructions to play with - but you have to get creative when the instruction set doesn't even let you add or subtract - let alone multiply or divide!
I didn't have a lot of luck with the C toolchain (on Windows) .. I caved and switch to Python - and that experience is a lot less painful, with Thonny working well.
Using IRQ's and PIO - your main loop is free to do all sorts of good things - AND you have two cores (and multi-threading is EASY) ... run a webserver on one - and you have one free to bang bits (if you must).
35 years of programming experience in a dozen different languages probably helps a little bit - but really - anyone can build exciting projects with some copy-and-paste action. The possibilities are endless.”
“Awesome microcontroller for the price, sometimes all you want to do is run IO and algorithms without necessarily booting up a Raspberry PI or you want to make a component and have it run smoothly all the time from the moment you power on the PI.
Runs micropython and has two core threads which means you can run 2 multi threads on your code.
Plenty of of GPIO and low power consumption so basically you can run it with a couple of AA batteries.
To run the python code directly from power on, save the file as main.py into the controller and you’re good to go.”
“First class service! Ordered and arrived the next morning which I wasn't expecting over Christmas. Had a few raspberry pi's over the years and thought i would give the pico a go.”
