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pwillard
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Posted: 12:29am 11 Dec 2025
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Pimoroni

An elongated Pirate-brand RP2350-powered board with 16MB of flash, 8MB of PSRAM, USB-C, Qw/ST, 2.4GHz wireless / Bluetooth and built-in LiPo charging.
 
Peter63
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Posted: 02:30am 11 Dec 2025
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Hello
Has anyone tried PicoMite MMBasic on this?
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Mixtel90

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Posted: 08:25am 11 Dec 2025
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I/ll be honest, I'm not a fan. The PGA2350 is great as it quite literally makes everything available in an elegant way. This is an attempt to do a similar thing but with more integrated bits in a DIL package for breadboards but it's length makes it a bit fragile for that and integrated stuff means that it is tied to specific GPIO pins, which loses the point of GPIO. It's fine as a testbed device but IMHO it's unsuitable for integrating into anything - what the Pico was designed for. It's also twice the price of the PGA2350 so you won't be buying many for projects.
Mick

Zilog Inside! nascom.info for Nascom & Gemini
Preliminary MMBasic docs & my PCB designs
 
pwillard
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Posted: 11:48am 11 Dec 2025
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MMBASIC is probably wasted on this one, and not a good match since it has a different WIFI option, for example.

Not bad for solutions needing a lot of GPIO.  I'll try to use it as virtual peripherals for a legacy 8-bit CPU.
Edited 2025-12-11 21:51 by pwillard
 
PhenixRising
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Posted: 11:51am 11 Dec 2025
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Agreed, kinda. I really like matherp's DIL; long, yes but it doesn't feel at all fragile.

The integrated boards are nice but incorporate features that I will never use. The DIL just requires a motherboard to suit the application. The quality from JLCPCB is wonderful and the metallic "BOOT" and "RESET" buttons provide a nice, positive tactile feedback.  
 
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