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| Posted: 01:53pm 24 Aug 2024 |
I greet with delight the introduction of the 64 pin RP2350B and the port of MicroMite Basic to this chip. Peter, my gratitude for, and deep appreciation of, your most selfless work on these projects is without bounds.
The only current embodiment of the 64pin version that I can find is the Pimoroni PGA2350; a board that I find rather absurd. It is hardly a development friendly outline. What I would really welcome (and I assume would any others who work with stripboards and breadboards in their development projects) would be an RP2350B mounted on a straightforward long board with 32 pins on each side in the manner of the now obsolete MX795 board by Sparkfun. I have several of the Sparkfun boards and, despite the version of MMBasic for the board having had no development for several years, I find the layout so compelling that I continue to use them from time to time.
The picture below shows a Pimoroni PGA2350 board next to the MX795 board; given a choice, which format would YOU prefer to play with?
So here is a call to manufacturers or to those with contact to them, perhaps Sparkfun or Pimoroni, to mount up an RP2350 on a board in the format of the MX795 (UBW32) board. I am sure that this would sell rather well! (I would be first in the queue.)
Edited 2024-08-24 23:55 by circuit