Great UPDATE as always Thanks for sharing :-)

Great news! Can't wait for the official support hopefully in a few months

Thank you for all the information that you’re supplying…… It’s really valuable

3:22 some of the chips such as ESP32 and STM32F4 series have hardware floating point units, but for double precision calculations, they rely on software and hence clock is important again as you mentioned.

Thanks for the mid-week news flash! Even this level of support seems to be easier than the straight C workflow the Pi foundation supports.

Awesome ! It's getting better all the time !

Exciting stuff!!!

Thanks for making the button smash during the first programming cycle plain. The Arduino stuff makes my life a lot easier when I am putting together simple products for my clients. Rock that Swiss accent!

Many thanks again!

Thank you sir♥️

Many-many thanks! :)

Thanks Earle!

Thanks for the breaking news

That Teensy 4.1 is a bit of a monster.

Great. Thank you for this great update, I will definitely try this and see how many libraries are working ( I normally need at lease i2c, spi, and OLED displays... might try Lora as well ....

That's huge, thanks!

This is awesome!

This will make it actually be worth to buy for me. Also I read no Docker in the description, then I subscribed.

Thankyou Again! :)

Thanks Andreas. My back-ordered pico just arrived today-great timing. The Raspberry Pi Foundation must have some plan grand plan for the pico but I’m at a loss to see what it is.

Thanks!

I went down the raspberry pi route first, and only recently got into arduinos, but as soon as I did my raspberry pi and pico both went dusty, I just love the arduino IDE THAT much. So it's fantastic to now include my pico into projects, the last month I've bought pico, 1 arduino, and 3 nanos :D

Now you need a speed test that takes advantage of multiple cores. ;-)

Useful video as always. It seems “Horses for courses” gets forgotten and these videos are very useful to choose the horse.There’s never likely to be “one size fits all”. Speed, timing accuracy, connectivity, cost, power consumption and many more factors should influence the decision. Start with the course, then choose the horse. If you want to make a Blink, use a 318!

There is much you can do with the PIO that does not show up in the benchmarks. PIO state machines run at 125Mhz and are cycle accurate. I measured jitter at less than 100 psec. I'm using Pico to replace an fpga in a lab setting so I think it has potential!

Thanks

i’m not sure if you read old comments but if you do it might be time to take another look at the pico. Many of the disadvantages noted in your original video have been overcome. 16mb flash, i2s, vga support via pio, etc also many new boards based on the RP2040.

Thanks for letting us know, ( mine is still in the draw waiting for a suitable project :-)

Thank you for the informative video Andreas. You made a syntax error when thanking Earle though. I thought I'd let you know in case you get compiler errors :-)

Thanks Andreas!. Very interesting to see what the hardware can do now that the micropython interpreter has been circumvented. I don't know if you have attempted it before but it would be very interesting to see equivalent programs running on micro-python vs. Arduino C code now that Earle has so kindly made it more accessible. For me the main advantage of the entire Pi series was having real OS such as Linux(and HMDI + WIFI). Stripping down the HW and going to micro-python or even Arduino C means they are now playing in a different market and apparently not very competitive.

Hi Andreas, great video as always! I was wondering if there is a significant difference in performance between a Micropython implemented code and a C++ Arduino IDE one?

Excellent info as usual. Unfortunately the Pico doesn‘t convince me.

when you did the pico vs arduino vs esp32 comparison you looked at interrupt response time, what does that look like under C++?

Good news everyone!

For 3:34 my guess would be that all the boards with FPUs (except the Teensy) only have acceleration for single-precision floats, so double-precision floats have to be processed in software.

Great for uploading the video.

Arduino has now released their own support for Pico as I'm sure you're aware. Blink sketch works easy. U8g2 seems to be working fine (using st7920 LCD) upload seems to be rather slow. Keyboard.h currently not supported. Thanks for the vid Mr guy with the Swedish accent.

Thank you Andreas. Just one question, what is the consumption of the rpi pico? Much less than the esp32? If not, I don't quite see the point in using it.

Nice video, as always. Do you plan on testing RISC-V based or more powerful ARM microcontrollers, like the STM32H7 lineup? I'm actually eager to see powerful RISC-V designs as there are many articles about them but have not seen anything being made by great manufacturers like Atmel and STmicroelectronics so I have not yet developed interest in them. I hope you'll change it in the near future.

As always, interesting! Out of interest, I haven't seen any video on Teensy or Onion Omega2 from you. What is the reason? Is it because you prefer ESP32 when it comes to MCU and Raspberry PI if you need a microcomputer? Cheers!

Implemented ~20 projects on ESP32, I really would have a hard time to find a use case for the pico at all. No wifi, no speed, no ULP, less IO, more expensive, no 'specialized boards, (like f.e. with an OLED ..). But maybe I missed a secret ;-) Thanks anyway @Andreas for doing all the tests!

Thanks again, I've been waiting for this. Python is just way too slow for most of my projects.

I also did some simple performance test using Prime number calculatio upt o the number 100000. STM32F1: 1576 millisec ESP8266: 2727 millisec ESP32: 308 millisec Pi Pico: 584 millisec

ESP32 still kicking ass and not even asking for names!

Thank you for the detail - We didn't have to wait that long for the official version from Arduino. Added RP2040 via the Board Manager to V1.8.13 - Compiled sketches OK, but needed to use a post_install.sh patch from GitHub to be able to download the .elf to the Pico. Interesting that with the Arduino/'C' route one re-flashes the Pico (so easier to include different library files), but with Thonny/MicroPython the one can drag-and-drop .py files into RPI-RP2 folder. Still trying to discover how one can add additional library modules in MicroPython on the Pico if they are based on 'C' with a wrapper...

I have been struggling for 2 weeks to get VScode to work for this. I’ve spent at least 25 hours on this and I feel so discouraged. This will be very welcome.

This might be a silly question, but where do I find the commands for controlling the io on the pico in this context? I've installed and can compile code to the board, but I don't know how to control the pins.

Any idea if port manipulation is supported? It would be awesome to be able to set all of the pins in one bang.

1:39 "There is no COM port the first time" I spun my wheels for 20 minutes until I found this. Thanks for getting me unstuck

Now this allow to code on the firmware level for the Pico. Interesting. I'm actually thinking about the Black Pill for running micropython, since it also have a footprint for a flash memory chip that can reach quite high capacities. Someone has done it but documentation is kinda scarce.

I am curious about the power consumption vs the more traditional boards. I imagine its more efficient then the esp32.

Andreas, could you please take a look at the new pine64 risc-V based boards, such as pinenut-01s, which has the exact form factor of a esp-01s and their price are comparable to esp8266's. I find the specs to look very promising! But their SDK/API to be somewhat clumsy, and the arduino support is very bare-bone - but I guess that will improve with time.

I've become a Teensy 4 fan. Heck the 4 time price. The bootloader alone is worth it. Might be overkill for a lot of stuff, but the thing is amazing.

As someone who does embedded stuff for a living I never use floating point on a non-FPU cpu; mostly I just don't use floating point on microcontrollers.. but then I am old skool and happy with fixed point math

Not exactly a comment about the RPI Pico, but how would the Arduino Nano 33 BLE fit into your benchmark list? It has many attractive features for makers.

I always love your videos and explanations. I don't always understand everything yet, but that is just me. Is it possible to make a video about low quiescent boost converters like the tps610982? I can find very little explanation about this and I think they are very suitable for projects that are battery powered.

Thanks for the update. Great Job by Earle Philhower! And your comparision clearly shows that there is only little real reason to use this device - if at all. Low availability, low communication capability, low speed and higher price than ESP32. So, what is the real clou? The brand Name?

Hi. i want to use MPU6050 module with Raspberry Pi Pico board and code on Arduino IDE. I just want to know that, how can i set my SDA and SCL pins in code? Ordinary Arduino i2c choose SDA - A4, SCL - A5. But i use GPIO0 and GPIO1 for SDA and SCL.

Greetings Mr. Spiess! ... Love your vid's! ... Mr. Philhower's work is great, and appears to be beyond the official Arduino package!? ... I am looking at the Arduino IDE with his version 1.0.3 package installed (compared to "Mbed OS RP2040"), and it looks like support for Adafruit RP2040 Feather, and PicoProbe and DEBUGGING?! ... Yes, PICO on PICO windoze debugging within the Arduino IDE? ... Can anyone confirm? ... Would love love love to see a vid with your Swiss accent showing PICO to PICO windoze debug!

I'm wondering what happened to the announced official Arduino board with RP2040 and why Arduino IDE was not updated for a long time. Maybe we will see on Arduino Day on March 27th.

Interesting as I have three of these sitting here. The biggest turn off right now is no USB type C port. Typical RasPi design. I even put type C ports on my one off designs. I think I will use my ESP32 module adapter which comes with a type C connector instead of these things.

I'm in need of a small-factor device that can be used as a USB host. I already have the software working on Arduino + USB shield but I want more power. I was considering the Pico but I'll test seeduino first.

I always thinking .. why should i use the pico if i have a ESP?

I think, it's the same as with graphics cards, where IEEE754 is explicitely implemented in hardware for FP32. FP64 (and sometimes even FP16) is emulated?/calculated? via this FP32 hardware via microcode or something like this. IMO Hence it is significantly slower. If a chip has the almost exact same performance in FP16, FP32 and FP64, it propably has one explicit hardware native implementation for every size. NVIDIA GTX 980 for example had: - FP16: 6.6 GPix/s - FP32: 6.7 GPix/s - FP64: 0.13 GPix/s (which is 1/26 of FP32) Starting with the GTX1080 they even removed almos all native FP16 units, so FP32 was also significant faster than FP16: - FP16: 0.1 GPix/s - FP32: 12.6 Gpix/s - FP64: 0.25 Gpix/s

Arduino: 1.8.4 (Windows 7), Board: "Raspberry Pi Pico, 2MB (Sketch: 1MB, FS: 1MB), 125 MHz, Serial, None" Archiving built core (caching) in: C:\Users\usera\AppData\Local\Temp\arduino_cache_675545\core\core_rp2040_rp2040_rpipico_flash_2097152_1048576,freq_125,dbgport_Serial,dbglvl_None_c0f7e9a375aa53af2bc0bb1707f29d93.a exit status -1073741515 Error compiling for board Raspberry Pi Pico. This report would have more information with "Show verbose output during compilation" option enabled in File -> Preferences. any idea to fix this?

Running Arduino 1.8.13 on MacOS Catalina 10.15.7 I search for pico in the Library Manager and it does not find anything to install. Help is appreciated.

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Have you used RS485 on the pi pico ?

hello, can you program like dht11 in pi pico via arduino ide?

I am Present sir

For a moment I thought the weekend arrived early. Sadly, no

I do not think that number crunching performance is the most relevant issue for most embedded systems. It is mor I/O speed that counts. I am wondering how the Pico‘s PIO state machines compare to bit-banging approaches often necessary to emulate I/O protocols.

The port number is not determined .. although loading without "arduino ide" occurs and Blink is blinking. Is there some kind of driver for Windows? Не определяется номер порт.. хотя загрузка без"ардуины" происходит и Blink мигает. Есть какой-то драйвер для Windows?

Have you managed to implement a data logger to SD card in ‘C’ ? I have only managed in python......I don’t understand why I would run python on the Pico, especially now that’s it’s supported by Arduino.

Official Raspberry Pi Pico Support Added to Arduino IDE In a recent tweet from the - Official Arduino support for the Raspberry Pi Pico's RP2040 SoC has been officially added to the Arduino IDE. Edit: Support reprogramming without the need for pressing the button at all. Works like normal MCU.

Sir , Arduino usb host library not working for pico

Hoping for official rust support still

can u run headless pi pico code? (without opening serial monitor)

Asking for a suggestion: Hi, sir! I am a big fan of you. Your videos are really awesome and knowledgeable. Now I just want to share a idea with you, I have been working to make my own oscilloscope because they are very costly,I can't afford. So I decided to make my own. I have already created an analogue scope from a small CRT tv, but that has a very low bandwidth of 1 KHZ because the deflection coils are not fast enough. So I want to make a digital scope using some microcontroller but I can't find a fast ADC chip in indian market, so I have to use some trick. I can use raspberry pi pico or esp32 but don't know how to program. And Arduino is too slow for the job. But sir I have a better idea by which we can increase the effective bandwidth of the ADC of Arduino equivalent to some million sample per second. I found online that it can take a sample in 4.78 microsecond. So we can't take much sample in high frequency signal. My idea: To construct the waveform of a periodic signal its not mandatory to take all the samples from a single cycle, because all the cycles of a periodic signal are just the same, so we can take samples from different cycles, let's sa we want to take 1000 sample from 1KHz signal, to do that we have to sample at an interval of 1 microsecond, but using my idea, If we take one sample per cycle then we can have 1000 samples from 1000 cycles at total time of 1second. Since all the cycles are same so we can take the first sample at 0microsecond, next at 1001 microsecond instead of 1 microsecond, and the next at 2002microsecond, next at3003microsecond, this way if we take 1000 samples from 1000 cycles then display it, it will have much more resolution but using a slow adc. But the disadvantage is we can't see the real time change and can't see aperiodic signals. But for periodic signals, thats great, we can sample even mega hertz signals using the slow ADC of an Arduino. So, please make a video and a program for this, I don't know programming, thats why I am contacting you. I hope I will get help from you. Waiting :). Thanks in advance

How does this compare to the official release that is now available in the IDE by the Arduino folks?

I can't post replies using Firefox. I get the "returned error." It works OK on Chrome. Minutes after I watched this video, 5 hours ago, Earle Philhower posted a link to Tom's Hardware, where Raspberry Pi expert Les Pounder posted an automated method of doing this. The link is on Earle's GitHub site. The method works on Windows, Linux, the current Arduino and Beta 2. Thanks to Andreas, Earle and Les.

I did some further performance test: - Analog read/write: Very fast analog read/write, much faster than any other board (?!) - Digital read/write: Read as fast as ESP32, write closer to an ESP8266 - Integer Add, Mult, Div: As fast as an ESP32 - Long integer Add, Multi, Div: As fast as an ESP32 - Float Add Multi: Much slower than an ESP32 (as ESP8266). Done in Software - Float Div: Done in software as the ESP32 - Float SQRT, SIN, LOG: Faster than an ESP32 - Long integer Modolus: A lot slower than an ESP32, but clearly faster then an ESP32. So strange with the very fast analogRead done in 0.230 microSec?! Looks like no hardware support for Float Math. But very efficent Trig Math.

Is xod compatible with Raspberry pico?

I'm happyyyyyyyyyyyyyy about arduino being on the pico and what the future holds for it.

Just get a Teensy 3 or 4 and maybe an ESP32. Pico just seems too much of a headache for so little performance rewards

Why we need to consider f64 computation in MCUs? We rarely use this high precision in MCU applications, from my understanding.

Pico seems to be very redundant when compared to the other micro controlers that we use, I still can't figure out why raspberry pi foundation designed it this way 🤔

Well this is good news considering how awful I found the alternatives! It still feels like it has a long way to go before it's "educational environment ready" like the micro bit.

Breaking news break checking names ;)

= = = A recent YT video adds Wi-Fi to a Pico. The URL is at the very _end_. + It _follows_ a few comments and a caveat. This is a full 20 minute explanation by Tim on his channel Tinker Tech Trove. He shows how to flash and UART--connect an ESP-01 to a Rpi Pico. ! NOTE: This explanation does have intermediate steps, for testing. Also, it is quite detailed. The screen visual are fine, although "longer & larger" would be helpful. More _close-up_ _sharply-focused_ shots would be helpful, especially of actually wiring. These are minor points, to be fair. This video is excellent IMHO. + HOWEVER, it _does_ assume previous ESP8266 / ESP-01, Arduino IDE, and _non_-novice HW maker -- building experience. - - - - This video is especially good at noting several gotcha's; it is worth paying _very_ careful attention to these! Two examples are (1) which release updates will work & (2) when to be in "flash" or in "operate" mode. ¿How did I find this? I didn't. This was a YT "suggestion" & Tim's channel was previously UNknown to me. I have since looked at several other videos on his channel, so my suggestion -- to other makets here -- is clearly obvious. ¿What about "vetting" -or- "validation"? OK...: Hier ist meine bescheidene Bitte: Es gibt einen Mann mit Schweizer Akzent. ¶ Vielleicht könnte sich dieser Typ diese Beschreibung ansehen. Seine Kommentare sind ausgewogen und vernünftig. Seine Meinung wird sehr geschätzt. Ich danke Ihnen im Voraus, dass Sie dies in Betracht gezogen haben. Es wird sehr geschätzt! SUMMARY ========= Below is the URL for Tim's video. His channel is Tinker Tech Trove. He uses the UART on an ESP-01. This connects to the Rpi PICO's UART. Both flashing & configuring are used. This adds Wi-Fi support to the PICO. Please see...: ukposts.info/have/v-deo/aGKqmqZ4ap6Q2Gw.html

Fast blinky made accessible.

I'm not sure why there is so much excitement over the Pi Pico. Maybe the Pi Foundation did a good job seeding samples to UKposts makers. I use the Teensy 3.2 or 4 for everything that doesn't require WiFi and if it is needed use an ESP32 in its place

lol i like the pico with python. but still the more the better. more to play with. and spanks

Oh, this time I watch the video after 4 minutes.

Servo motor i am not able to run.

Old News, I found it yesterday,... ;-} serialEvent() is not working, but I have let Earle know.

Just saying... I bought Pico just to try something new. That alone is worth $4 each (plus shipping) Made some friends via the Facebook Raspberry Pi Pico group.

Out of 6 Arduino Mega 4 are dead which contain ATMEGA16U2 chip. Only those Arduino Mega which contain CH340G chip survive. Please, Can you investigate reason behind this issue?

imposible found boad libary for 2040 only embeded

arduinoJson is not supported by arduino-pico board