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The pico is just a standard (slightly overpriced actually) microcontroller. There are a million different chips out there with more functionality than the pico. Teensy board is just an example, much more powerful than Pico or Arduino.

Overpriced? Name one available microcontroller with similar features and availability :D

@@stacksmashing availability is usually a bad sign :). If there is stock of your product during a global shortage, it means that not so many people is using them. The pico is a flashless MCU, which makes it almost impossible to compare with any useful industrial grade MCU in the market, because 99% of the general purpose ones have some amount of flash. So to compare it you would have to add the price of the flash chip as well, or you can compare die size vs price, as you wish. In both cases is not the cheapest MCU, nor the one with most features/price, and the quality assurance process I’m sure is way below the industry standards as well. Just my personal opinion, nothing against lowering the entry barrier to embedded development. I just believe Teensy is a much more compelling product for that price, and STM MCUs are way better for the price you pay. BTW, congratulations on the great videos and talks you do, you manage to explain complex concepts in an easy to understand, graphical way. I know how much time and effort goes into it, thanks a lot for it!

@@santiagogf89 > it means that not so many people is using them Well, it's pretty new. And (per raspi foundation) rather focused on education/individual makers rather than mass production. > and the quality assurance process I’m sure is way below the industry standards as well Maybe in terms of the failure rate. But the documentation and ecosystem is pretty certainly much better. There are some chips that are also somewhat easy to get into that are potentially cheaper (ESP32, STM32), but then the boards for them that are actually useful for development cost about as much as an RP2040 one. I personally like to use the ESP32(-C3) because of the integrated RF comms and am not very impressed by the RP2040 itself, but I do think it's a great chip for starters and one-offs. The Raspi ecosystem tends to be hard to beat, we see this in the SBC market as well.

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Get a logic analyzer(any kind). That will get you started. Also when you buy a pico/arduino/rpi buy any kind of device that uses spi/iic/1wire to communicate. For example eeprom, accelerometer etc. So you can start learning about communications. And I expect that you have at least high school level knowledge of electronics + bjt and mosfet.

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