Raspberry Pi Pico: 10 Things You Might Not Know 

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What I really liked about this video was that Ryan went right to the point. No fluff, no filler. Subscribed.

Hi All, thank you for watching! Let me know in the comments below what other Raspberry Pi Pico related video you'd like to see.

Great presentation Ryan, I find the fact that the £3.60 Pico is massively superior to the Apollo guidance computer in every regard somewhat scary and goes some way to explain how current rockets can land back on earth vertically on a small landing pad for re-use!

Lots of interesting new info. Thanks!

F'ing awesome video. I didn't know any of this before!

Thanks for the educational video. I knew about most of this stuff, but there was some information that I learned from watching.

Thank you so much for this video

Good videao, mate. 10 new things learned. Glad i watched. Usually I skip vids like „10 things you did wrong when washing up your dishes“. Usually click bait.

Thank you for sharing your time with us.

Great job Ryan! Liked, Subscribed and looking forward to watching more of your videos.

Nicely done - only knew two or three of these factoids, so thanks!

4:20 You can also consider that the pico is almost 50 times more (computational) power than the GameBoy advance! Or 40 times more powerful than the [Nintendo] NES

Great video Ryan! 🙂

Thanks Great video very informative

Holly Pie, The Pi Zero can consume 100 Mega What ? at 2:50 Must be a mistake, but a funny one. Very nice presentation of the Pi Zero.

thanks!

Thanks, good info. I'm trying to set up the C SDK and got stopped at VSCode. Creating a new folder does not seem to make a new project. The build is going all around it but not building from my CMakelist text file. Any ideas?

Cool video I did not know this wow!

I'm a fan of the in-built clock, I could have used that in a nano a lot....

great video, learns a lot! I have a question: could you maintain your pico alive just by plug it to a classic powerbank ?

Im your new subscriber here, keep the good work bro....

Fascinating.

The pico can be reset by connecting the RUN pin to ground instead of removing and then connecting the USB connection. The RUN pin IS the reset input. Easy to connect by a smal switch. Way to many doesn't know this...

About the Real-Time Clock, Pico seems that no pins for the battery. Blue Pills (STM32F103) had the Vb for the battery, when the main power is removed.

Hi, The SI unit for megahertz is MHz while mHz would be millihertz. So capital letters for bigger than the base units and small letters for smaller than the base units. The exception is k because K is already taken.

2:51 Did you say... Megawatts? That was funny XD

Hello Ryan, A few questions. What is the max current for an output pin. What is the total limit current limit if all outputs were used? Some libraries can be loaded by using the package manager, it seems that other functionality can be accessed by the pico reading a python file stored on the RAM, please discuss.

I waiting so desperately for the Arduino RP 2040 and for the lifting of the 2 boards only for the tiny 2040. Both are incredible useful for IoT Projects. Currently I mostly use the Arduino Nano MKR 33 and some onld radino32 boards for IoT

In addition to the languages ... i just startet with the Pico using MMBasic ;-)

Can this run Pi-Hole in a Docker Container? I'm looking for something cheap to run Pi-Hole on because I don't wanna keep using my Windows Laptop for it.

Good video, but I don’t really consider the wifi capability of the Arduino Connect to be a Pi Pico capability. I’ve been searching through all the material to see what wifi board would be easiest to use with the Pico as it has no native wifi.

My first impression is that this is a ridiculously large amount of CPU power to use for simple things -- but it only costs $4 -- and here's an analogy. Suppose a blacksmith from 150 years ago were brought to a modern machine shop. He'd think we were terribly wasteful, using metals that were a lot stronger than needed, and parts that were a lot more precisely made than necessary. But that's modern technology. And it's the same way with microcontrollers. Often the lowest total cost is to use a CPU vastly more powerful than strictly necessary. It makes development easier!

HI i am working on my pi pico from windows it is really a mission ,must i rather use pi 3b ?

Nice summary. Can a camera be interfaced with it?

no mention of PIO the one thing that makes this so much more power ful than other microcontrollers ?

Brilliant mate! I'm using my RPi Pico to weight homebrewed beer kegs to determine how much I've poured! Seems like such a waste for a such a powerful device, but at $4.00 US, I'll just get more!

Great video. Forth as an OS and programming language for this device would be ideal, maybe you could cover that in a video?

was gonna dislike it if it did not tell anything related to nasa as it was in the thumbnail, but liked the video at the end. no clickbait -> like.

The built in temperature sensor will measure the temperature of the chip and is therefore not very good for monitoring room temperature. Consider using a ds18b20 temperature sensor. Micropython has a onewire library that makes it easy to use this device.

number 7 actually it can draw as little as 0.18mA typical average which gives ~231 days on a 1000mAh battery, but after some extra reading this is only applicable when using custom PCB:s 1mA only gives ~41days which is not so good for dormant sensors but if that is the use case then there are other microcontrollers that draw much less current

So basically this whole time I had no frickin clue that all these RPI Pico's I haven't used over the last few years could have worked as the guidance system to put my own satellites into orbit and even for my own personal spacecraft to tour around Near Earth Objects!? TF, had I have known this I wouldn't have sold my body for so long to pay for the bootlegged RPI Model 4B+ I used for the same thing? (Just kidding, I was lucky enough to have foresight and purchased two of the Model 4B+ 8GB RAM models back when they were still actually affordable and not a rare breed of Pokemon).

Please,could you tell what major to study for doing this kind of projects.please,tell me, I am about to my major in university

I recently bought a Pico, but I found it very ironic that it would not, and still won't, connect to my Pi400, (timeout error), so thinking it may be a dud, I tried it with all 3 of my Windows computers of various ages, where it works perfectly. 😂

Just a thing Pete Warden is not only an Open-Source contributor, he leads Google's Tensorflow Lite Micro team! :)

Is it supports Arduino ide ... Can it is replaceblabe of Arduino naho Arduino Uno

Hi Ryan, thanks for the great video. Do you think it is possible to program it using Java?

I program my Picos in Basic and FORTH.

1:05 i opened youtube using a homemade pico bad usb and saw this lol

Sleep current of 1ma is terrible! its 50 to 100 times more than most popular micro controllers, obviously not designed to be used with batteries for long periods of time.

Machine learning what's the link for that

nasa should have used the pico for apollo 11

Would machine learning be directly connected to augmented reality?

Got three of those on the weekend as a gift, soo...everything is new. £3 million you say!?

Imagine I'm watching this on a phone with more computing power than the first shuttles to space and I'm stuck here on earth. Who wants to develop an open source space ship?

Use your Pico, to probe your Pico, is that Pico caption 🤔

Also RP2040 is powerful enough to run original DOOM

It now hosts MMBasic.

All new to me.

4:04 and? pocket calculator is better than apollo 11 computer lol

cool, i will use it for AI applications

3:01 1 mA? that sounds a bit much

I am not sure these devices are secure enough for any purpose.

The Pico is more powerful than the Apollo guidance computer? Shocker, after 50 years 😁. Every computer today is more powerful than the most powerful computer of the 1960s.

no wifi and bluetooth build in is the reason I dont use PICO

ya apple doesnt design their own chip they are using ARM...just as before they were using intel...just saying

Number 11: It has no power-on light. You can't tell if it is working. I was trying an upload, only to find out the USB cable was not connected. Never have that with other brand boards. Number 12: The pin-out is printed on the bottom. Knowing where to connect things is a real PITA, thanks to ridiculous tiny white print on way too bright green. Number 13: The Pico is not THAT fast. The average 64MHz nRF52840 is as fast, an Itsy Bitsy Express at 200MHz totally walks over it, not to forget Teensy 4.1 (20 times as fast is unfair!) Number 14: If the Apollo was coded in Python, it would have been on the bottom of the Pacific. Python makes a Pico as slow as an UNO in C++ Number 15: The Pico is HUGE. The Itsy Bitsy M4 has nearly the same amount of usable pins (25 vs 26), yet it is 40% smaller and twice as fast. A Teensy 3.2 has 8 more pins at 60% the size. Number 16: Documentation is none. You even have to BUY a pinout postcard separately. You are thrown in the gutter when you buy this. Help! Number 17: It has castellated pins to make it a saw blade. Waste of space. Monty Python would say: "Thou shall cut down the mightiest tree in the forest with a Pi Pico!" Number 18: It is too cheap. No money left for packaging, making a reprogrammable bootloader, give it Flash storage for code, adding female headers with print... Number 19: It takes 30 seconds to compile blink in the Arduino IDE, which results in 70000 bytes of code and 50000 bytes of RAM use. The same on a ATtiny85 demands 700bytes and 9 bytes. Number 20: 7 pins are wasted as GND pin. Those could have been usable I/O. Or we could have had a 7.6mm shorter board (which is mostly empty). Number 21: The Pico has USB 1.1 at 12Mbps. The nRF52833 in the Microbit V2 or the Teensy 4's do full USB 2.0 speed for uploading code. The Teensy 4.1 even has dual USB 480Mbps.

£3.60 to buy - £2.99 Post & Packing...

Raj-urry

Can't do nothing that is worth while

it cant learn. It can only propagate a tiny pre-trained model.

duh

"...that sent man to the moon". Omg, you really believe in this crap?

remarkable features: hardware-statemachines! i2c, spi, uart and easy multiprocessing with micropython , high real time capability