Raspberry Pi announces three new Pico microcontrollers

[Rual dV]

Raspberry Pi launches new Pico microcontrollers

Raspberry Pi has announced three new microcontrollers improving on its Pico model, including one with Wi-Fi support for less than a R100 (excl. VAT and import costs).

The company unveiled the Raspberry Pi Pico W, Pico H, and Pico WH. The W and H models are already available, while the WH will release in August.

 

[SilverCode]

libcyw43 is licensed for non-commercial use

I wish the RPi Foundation would stop using closed source chips/libraries/firmware

 

[gotaway]

Pico W waiting for ICASA approval according to PiShop.
Apparently ESPHome will be available for the Pico W as well.
Cannot wait for these to become available.

 

[gotaway]

I wish the RPi Foundation would stop using closed source chips/libraries/firmware

Your quote

The network stack uses libcyw43 to communicate with the wireless chip on the Pico W.

The rest of the paragraph:

“By default, libcyw43 is licensed for non-commercial use, but Pico W users, and anyone else who builds their product around RP2040 and CYW43439, benefit from a free commercial-use license,” the company said.

 

[Gravedigger]

Very good, very nice....
I knew it will not be long, before they come up with a wireless version...

I wonder, did the foundation repurpose some pins, or are they sharing some pins, or used some extra pins not broken out on the normal Pico board?

EDIT: I still have my Pico and Pi 2W kicking around in the drawer ...

 

[DapperDanMan]

for less than a R100

What a time to be alive!

Case in point:

 

[TheRoDent]

Your quote

The rest of the paragraph:

Seems like it's a blob, closed. Prove me wrong?

 

[The_Ogre]

Availability!!!

 

[mastercylinder]

Seems like it's a blob, closed. Prove me wrong?

You're right. It is a blob.

However, the datasheet is available, and it seems like there is enough info in there to build a driver.

Also as the whole thing is SPI, one could clean room a driver with a moderately priced logic analyzer if this wasn't the case. It all depends how much time you want to spend on things... Or how broken the blob is, I guess.

 

[mastercylinder]

I wish the RPi Foundation would stop using closed source chips/libraries/firmware

Not going to happen until they ditch Broadcom. Broadcom have a reputation for, well, holding you hostage.

Hopefully the RP2040 means they are considering rolling their own CPU for the actual Pis.