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| Posted: 08:33am 01 Apr 2024 |
I've been very pleased with them, just using them as a general purpose Pico substitute where 3V3EN and VREF aren't connected. Power into pin 39 as usual.
The main problem now is that you can't easily use them for USB. You can't get 5V out of the USB connector and there's no easy access to the data lines. That doesn't mean that it can't be done though, you could always use a board where the USB-C has a plug in it connected to a USB socket together with a 5V supply. That doesn't work with any of the board designs to date though.
Very cheap for a big(!) A: drive though. Probably useful for log files.
Just watch something else - they are slightly bigger than a Pico. You need to allow slightly more PCB area if designing a board to take either. That extra space is used to good effect though, as the pins are labelled on top of the board. :)